Le site 4gamer a sorti son article annuel avec les ambitions des développeurs japonais pour 2021 ainsi que les jeux qui les ont le plus impressionné lors de cette année.

-Arc System Works Daisuke Ishiwatari - Skyhill (2015 game)
-Arc System Works Kazuto Sekine - Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
-Arc System Works Toshimichi Mori - Final Fantasy VII Remake
-Arc System Works Takeshi Yamanaka - Final Fantasy VII Remake
-Idea Factory / Compile Naoko Mizuno - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-Idea Factory / Compile Wataru Watanabe - Moon RPG
-Acquire Takuma Endo - Ghost of Tsushima
-Atlus Shinjirou Takata- Final Fantasy VII Remake
-Atlus Katsura Hashino - Ghost of Tsushima
-Atlus Kazuhisa Wada - Cyberpunk 2077
-Inti Creates Takuya Aizu - Animal Crossing: New Horizons / Cyberpunk 2077
-Inti Creates Yoshihisa Tsuda - Arcade Archives: Markham
-Inti Creates Hiroki Miyazawa - Mechstermination Force
-Wargaming Japan Yoko Sawai - Ghost of Tsushima
-EXNOA HaseP - Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & The Secret Fairy
-Experience Inc Hajime Chikami - "There were a few games that interested me this year, but nothing really shocked me"
-SNK Eisuke Ogura - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-SNK Yasuyuki Oda - Ghost of Tsushima
-M2 Naoki Horii - Baba is You
-OVERRIDE Yusuke Nashiki - Genshin Impact
-Kadokawa Games Juntaro Kono - Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban!
-Kadokawa Games Hiroshi Miyaoka - Ghost of Tsushima
-Kadokawa Games Yoshimi Yasuda - Spider-Man: Miles Morales
-Capcom Yasunori Ichinose - Magic: The Gathering: Commander Legends (Yes, the card expansion)
-Capcom Hideaki Itsuno - Ghost of Tsushima
-Capcom Matt Walker - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-Capcom Shuhei Matsumoto - Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection
-GungHo Satoshi Ogihara - Final Fantasy VII Remake
-GungHo Motoki Kaneda - Cyberpunk 2077
-GungHo Kazuki Moroshita - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-Grasshopper Interactive Goichi Suda (Suda51) - Mario Kart: Live Circuit
-Granzella Kazuma Kujo - Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia
-Koei Tecmo Yukinori Ito - AFK Arena
-Koei Tecmo Kazuhiro Echigoya - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-Koei Tecmo Mei Erikawa - Disney: Twisted-Wonderland
-Koei Tecmo Kenichi Ogasawara - Genshin Impact
-Koei Tecmo Keisuke Kikuchi - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-Koei Tecmo Hisashi Koinuma - The Last of Us: Part II
-Koei Tecmo Yasunori Sakuta - Genshin Impact
-Koei Tecmo Kou Shibusawa - Ghost of Tsushima
-Koei Tecmo Akihiro Suzuki - Ghost of Tsushima
-Koei Tecmo Yosuke Hayashi - Ghost of Tsushima
-Koei Tecmo Junzo Hosoi - Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin
-Koei Tecmo Ryuta Matsushita - Cyberpunk 2077
-Koei Tecmo Fumihiko Yasuda - Ghost of Tsushima
-Koei Tecmo Hidehisa Yamaguchi - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-Konami Hironobu Mori - Final Fantasy VII Remake
CCP Games Hilmar V. Pétursson - Among Us
-JP Games Hajime Tabata - The Last of Us: Part II
-CyberConnect2 Hiroshi Matsuyama - Tick Tock: A Tale for Two
-genDesign Fumito Ueda - Half-Life: Alyx
-Synthese Yukinori Kitajima - The Last of Us: Part II
-SuperTrick Games Akira Yamaoka - Ghost of Tsushima
-Square Enix Takashi Anzai - Genshin Impact
-Square Enix Koji Aoyama - Final Fantasy VII Remake
-Square Enix Tomoya Asano - Final Fantasy VII Remake
-Square Enix Masanori Ichikawa - Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
-Square Enix Ryutaro Ichimura - Ghost of Tsushima
-Square Enix Masaru Oyamada - Ghost of Tsushima
-Square Enix Akitoshi Kawazu - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-Square Enix Yoshinori Kitase - Maneater
-Square Enix Yosuke Saito - Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
-Square Enix Takamasa Shiba - Ghost of Tsushima
-Square Enix Masashi Takahashi - Yakuza: Like a Dragon
-Square Enix Shinji Hashimoto - Ghost of Tsushima
-Square Enix Akihiko Matsui - Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & The Secret Fairy
-Square Enix Naoki Yoshida - Ghost of Tsushima
-Freelance Jiro Ishii - Ghost of Tsushima / Cyberpunk 2077
-Spike Chunsoft Yusuke Katagata - Ghost of Tsushima
-Spike Chunsoft Shohei Sakakibara - Spider-Man: Miles Morales
-Sega Yosuke Okunari - GG Aleste 3
-Sega Hiroyuki Sakamoto - Cyberpunk 2077
-Sega Toshihiro Nagoshi - Ghost of Tsushima
-Sega Naofumi Hataya - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-Sega Mizuki Hosoyamada - Super Mario Bros. 35
-Sega Masayoshi Yokoyama - Cyberpunk 2077
-Sega Takumi Yoshinaga - No Straight Roads
-Sony Interactive Entertainment Nicolas Doucet - The Last of Us: Part II
-Sony Interactive Entertainment Shuhei Yoshida - Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
-Taito Katsuhisa Ishikawa - Ghost of Tsushima
-Taito Yoichi Shimosato - Genshin Impact
-Taito Shohei Tsuchiya - Ghost of Tsushima
-Type-Moon Kazuya Shinno - Yakuza: Like a Dragon
-WFS Masato Kato - "Nothing in particular"
-WFS Takeru Sakurada - Pokémon Sword and Shield: The Isle of Armor & The Crown Tundra
-D3 Publisher Nobuyuki Okajima - Cyberpunk 2077
-Delight Works Yosuke Shiokawa - Rival Peak
-Digital Extremes Rebecca Ford - Hades
-Toybox Tomio Kanazawa - Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin
-Tookyoo Games Kotaro Uchikoshi - Ghost of Tsushima
-Tookyoo Games Kazutaka Kodaka - The Last of Us: Part II
-Tookyoo Games Takumi Nakazawa - Yakuza: Like a Dragon
-Niantic Susumu Yukihiro - Dragon Quest XI
-24Frame Yusuke Tomono - Cyberpunk 2077
-Nippon Ichi Sayaka Oda - Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin
-Nippon Ichi Kento Jobana - Helltaker
-Nippon Ichi Sohei Shinkawa - Dragon Quest Tact
-Nippon Ichi Gen Suganuma - Ghost of Tsushima
-Nippon Ichi Masayuki Furuya - Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
-Nippon Ichi Yu Mizokami - Pikmin 3: Deluxe
-Nihon Falcom Toshihiro Kondo - Ghost of Tsushima
-Hublots Shuichi Koga - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-HAL Laboratory Tadashi Kawai - Ghost of Tsushima
-HAL Laboratory Teruhiko Suzuki - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-HAL Laboratory Yumi Todo - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-Bandai Namco Junichiro Koyama - Ghost of Tsushima
-Bandai Namco Keita Iizuka - Cyberpunk 2077
-Bandai Namco Kazutoki Kono - Ghost of Tsushima
-Bandai Namco Yozo Sakagami - Ghost of Tsushima
-Bandai Namco Katsuhiro Harada - Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
-Bandai Namco Kenji Anabuki - The Pathless
-Bandai Namco Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ghost of Tsushima
-BeXide Inc. Kazunori Nanji - Gaplus (Namcot Collection)
-Platinum Games Atsushi Inaba - Spiritfarer
-Platinum Games Hideki Kamiya - Arcade Archives VS. Balloon Fight & Arcade Archives VS. Wrecking Crew
-Platinum Games Kenji Saito - Ghost of Tsushima & Cyberpunk 2077
-Platinum Games Takahisa Taura - Ghost of Tsushima
-Proletariat Seth Sivak - Hades
-Bokeh Game Studio Keiichiro Toyama - In Death: Unchained
-White Owls Hidetaka Suehiro (SWERY65) - Cyberpunk 2077
-Marvelous Takehiro Ishida - Final Fantasy VII Remake
-Marvelous Kenichiro Tsukuda - "I don't feel there are many new things in gaming in general, most ideas are coming from other places"
-MIKAGE Ryoei Mikage - Cyberpunk 2077
-Mistwalker Hironobu Sakaguchi - Gears Tactics
-Rabbit&Bear Studios Junko Kawano - Super Mario -Bros. 35
-Rabbit&Bear Studios Osamu Komuta - Ghost of Tsushima

Et voici un classement des jeux les plus nommés :

32 Ghost of Tsushima
15 Animal Crossing: New Horizons
12 Cyberpunk 2077
8 Final Fantasy VII Remake
6 Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin
5 Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
5 Genshin Impact
5 The Last of Us: Part II
3 Yakuza: Like a Dragon
2 Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & The Secret Fairy
2 Spider-Man: Miles Morales
2 Super Mario Bros. 35
2 Hades
2 Helltaker
1 Skyhill (2015 game)
1 Moon RPG
1 Atlus Shinjirou Takata- Final Fantasy VII Remake
1 Animal Crossing: New Horizons / Cyberpunk 2077
1 Arcade Archives: Markham
1 Mechstermination Force
1 "There were a few games that interested me this year, but nothing really shocked me"
1 Baba is You
1 Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban!
1 Magic: The Gathering: Commander Legends (Yes, the card expansion)
1 Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection
1 Mario Kart: Live Circuit
1 Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia
1 AFK Arena
1 Disney: Twisted-Wonderland
1 Among Us
1 Tick Tock: A Tale for Two
1 Half-Life: Alyx
1 Maneater
1 Ghost of Tsushima / Cyberpunk 2077
1 GG Aleste 3
1 No Straight Roads
1 "Nothing in particular"
1 Pokémon Sword and Shield: The Isle of Armor & The Crown Tundra
1 Rival Peak
1 Dragon Quest XI
1 Dragon Quest Tact
1 Pikmin 3: Deluxe
1 Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
1 The Pathless
1 Gaplus (Namcot Collection)
1 Spiritfarer
1 Arcade Archives VS. Balloon Fight & Arcade Archives VS. Wrecking Crew
1 Ghost of Tsushima & Cyberpunk 2077
1 In Death: Unchained
1 "I don't feel there are many new things in gaming in general, most ideas are coming from other places"
1 Gears Tactics
1 Watch Dogs: Legion
1 Season
1 Tabletop Simulator