Kojima: Japanese game industry is in trouble

[Words Of Wisdom]

SaviorX said:

Paul_Warren said:

"The RPG genre in general seems to have declined but that's because many of them are on the wrong console if they're looking to get sales."

It is a double-edged sword. The Wii might be where they can get the most sales (at least at the moment). However, the Wii is also certainly not where they can be the best games that they can be at this point in time technologically. And don't bring up the argument that the Gamecube was technologically superior to the PS2, because the Gamecube also lacked the very thing that long cinematic jrpgs needed the most at the time...a dvd drive (which has been upgraded to a blu-ray drive in this console era) and even in games like Skies of Arcadia, the sound of the Gamecube version was not at the same level of quality as the Dreamcast original.

.....Maybe if a dev actually tried to push the system to the limit, like they do on the PS360, we wouldn't have this problem. Some barely try in that department at all.

Even at the Wii's best it still isn't capable of the same things the PS360 are and with such a large volume of crap for the Wii playing on the Wii's technical lacking to excuse their feeble attempts (hello EA), it's hard to see this changing much outside of certain games and exceptional developers.