GameZine: Capcom's creative director and producer Jun Takeuchi talks about the struggles Japanese developers face when trying to penetrate the Western market.
Jun Takeuchi, the creative director and producer behind games such as Lost Planet and Resident Evil 5, gave a presentation at the 2009 DICE summit titled 'Un-Japanese Games: Creating Entertainment for a Global Gaming Audience.' In it he talked about Capcom's success in the West and the shrinkage of the Japanese market.
Capcom is one Japanese developer that's seen great success in Western markets, with video games like Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Devil May Cry, Street Fighter, Bionic Commando and Resident Evil. They appear to understand the audience and its importance in the video games market, but it hasn't been easy for the developer to get to this stage.
Hades 2 carefully sandwiches more nuance between the original’s kinetic combat, gorgeous visuals, and heartfelt narrative.
Microtransactions have gotten ridiculously overpriced in recent years, with titles now offering cosmetic skins worth more than some games.
The elephant in the room tho is personal accountability. It’s easy (albeit basic) to blame the big, bad corpo, but microtransactions wouldn’t be where they are if gamers didn’t spend money on them. As it stands the MTs usually make more than the game. Publishers know raising game prices will cause backlash, so they do MTs to compensate. But the adult conversation is consumers determine the success of products with their wallets. So if MTs are a huge thing, it’s because we as consumers told them we like them by giving them a lot of money for them. So if you don’t want them to be a thing, convince your fellow gamers to stop buying them and expect that games will be decently more expensive. You all can disagree all you want, but reality is a bitch, and eventually you have to live in it.
There never was, the only time I paid for a microtransaction was on Blacklight Retribution (PS4) and it was because I enjoyed the game a lot so I felt the devs should get something for all that entertainment (€5 "membership")
The devs wouldn’t get that though, that shit goes straight to the higher ups who do f*** all let’s be honest.
Probably, but I wasn't as cynical back then and €5 wasn't a big ask to get the guns with grinding instead of renting them, and the game was good (still is on the PS5/4)
Nacon Studio Milan confirms Terminator Survivors PvP isn’t part of the game’s plans, as the game waves goodbye to a missed opportunity.
"When I learned that RoboCop Rogue City publisher was overseeing Terminator Survivors, my hopes for the project immediately increased. Despite an intriguing premise set after the events of T2 Judgment Day, Nacon Studio Milan reveals that Terminator Survivors PvP won’t be in the PS5 and Xbox title."
did an actual robot from the future write this?
I am so tired of PvP that I think it's awesome that major studios are focusing on making polished Co-Op and PvE experiences. Back on the old days we had so many great games
In a world where Terminators are walking around I'm hoping we could put our difference aside lol
