News: Hirameki Bows Out of visual novels

January 07, 2008, 12:36 PM

by vincent, via Hirameki -
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While most of the video game industry is busy counting all the money they got during the 2007 Christmas season, Hirameki International decided to call it quits, folding their business of publishing and translating visual novels from Japan. Seems that selling their software in the anime DVD aisle (even after the transition from making DVD player software to Windows PC software) helped their product enjoy all the "benefits" the American anime dvd market shared. In any case, here's to all the guys at Hirameki for making the attempt at bringing over the VN genre to this side of the ocean (and it's hard to imagine the company that has the guts to pick up the reins and make another push...)