NanaOn-Sha president Masaya Matsuura believes that the success of music games in the market place worldwide, particularly with Guitar Hero and Rock Band, is good - but just the "tip of the iceberg".
Speaking as part of a session at this year's DICE Summit Asia, incorporated into GC Asia, Matsuura-san looked back to some of his own projects, such as PaRappa the Rapper, as well as the development of music genres in the past 40 years, and explained his excitement at the prospects for the music game sector in the future.
"I feel very proud to be part of an industry without borders," he said, adding that "human beings are strange creatures that feel the compulsive need to express themselves.
"If we focus on the developments we have made in the integration between music and games... we can say without any doubt that we have barely touched on the possibilities that such integrations can facilitate. Until now we have only managed to uncover one of these elements, but they are just the tip of the iceberg."
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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