Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan and Asia Director Kenji Kajiwara talks about Lost Soul Aside and PlayStation's strategy to support Chinese games.
CGM Writes: While we were over at PAX East, we were able to sit down with Goichi Suda (Suda51) and talk about the upcoming remaster of Shadows of the Damned
We explore the Sega classics that are ripe for revival! From Panzer Dragoon Saga to Virtua Fighter, discover why these legendary games deserve a comeback on next-gen consoles. Dive into a nostalgic journey and see which Sega titles are set to captivate a new generation of gamers in 2024.
Turned based Phantasy Star and Shinning Force remain at the top of my list of Sega IPs that need to return. At the very least I'd take a Shining Force collection that has 1,2,3, CD and the Game Gear entries.
I don't trust Sega to do a proper comeback. The games will be just remastered and/or monetized to death.
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra recently suggested an interesting concept that has sparked a debate among gamers - the idea of being able to tip developers after completing a game.
If I had a 100% way to be sure that this money would go to a fund or a reserve dedicated only to the guys who develop the games, be them designers, artists, programmers and so on, I could think about it.
But we all know that this 'tip' would only end up in a publisher's CEO pocket to buy a new yacht, so, no, I ain't tipping anyone anytime soon on this industry
So they eventually don't pay their workers and depend on our tips to pay them like the case with waiters!
Is this a joke? How about the big wigs giving up some of their pay for their hard working developers.
Yes please
The problem I have with the PS4's chinese support is that, so far, a lot of chinese games released on the PS4 all ranges from mediocre (Hidden Dragon Legend and Unearthing Mars) to terrible (Dying Reborn and Ace Banana). So far, the only good chinese games the PS4 has are Icey and Light Tracer but I doubt those games has garnered a lot of attention. Heck, not a lot of chinese games on the PS4 were even that popular. A lot of games people like to talk about are western and japanese games, while chinese games on the PS4 are barely remembered.
I personally think that Sony should first of all hire a better publisher to localize chinese games because I'm pretty sure Oasis Games is barely doing a good job (they localized 6-7 chinese games on the PS4 and only one of them was good). That, and they should market more the chinese games like they do with their japanese and western games.
The mobile gaming market in China is absurdly humongous. It's a big part of the reason why developers like Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi created Mistwalker and develops games solely for mobile platforms.
Well done Sony keep supporting Chinese devs, they will be huge in the future hopefully.