With Japan losing ground to America's developers and audiences in the video game industry, 1up recently conducted a series of interviews with several Japanese creators in order to gather their opinions on what has happened, and what they can do to take back what they had lost.
Among those interviewed was Capcom's own head of R&D, Keiji Inafune, who is best known as being the father of Mega Man, and who has spearheaded the company's initiative into making games skewed more toward a Western audience, such as Dead Rising and Lost Planet, as well as finding external developers for fare such as Bionic Commando. When asked if he felt that Western development had indeed surpassed Japan's efforts, he said...
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I appreciate the article but this guy must be living in a delayed universe, The reputation was ruined 10+ years ago and hasn't recovered since. As such people have voted with their wallets and stopped buying Xbox products in large amounts.
Their reputation was lost way before that. From the moment Microsoft said they entering the console business, we all knew it would be a downgrade.
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Rumors of Turn 10 being either shut down or hit with massive lay offs is on the horizon.
The issue is MS will do something right only to do something very, very wrong. And they do this what seems calculative at this point. Doesn't matter what they do the Investors and leadership want more and more money an endless bottomless pit of purr insatiable greed. A company that acts like it's broke or hurting is what really, really infuriates me. They've surpassed apple again well over 3 trillion who acts like they're a million dollar company is fk stupid. Pivots and changes for no reason and can't do things for more than a year with out a pivot or changing their metrics.
That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest.
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"On the other hand, Japan mostly has developers controlled by publishers. The developers' aspirations and innovations first have to be evaluated by the publishers. Unless the publishers accept the developers' ideas, they'll never have access to the players. In the U.S., there are free competitions between developers."
LMFAO LMFAO
with EA/Activision/Ubisoft etc buying up and dismantling studios.. buying franchise licenses
this guy sounds like an idiot who has no idea of whats going on.. sooooo american developers have an edge because they are doing what makes japanese developers suck?
if ever there was a reason for a face/palm
Kenji is the man!!! One of my favorite developers and he tells it like it is.
Now get to work on that Dead Rising sequel!!
... I believe that it is more of a motivational stance than anything else. I seriously doubt that they feel that they are inferior in any way.