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However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.