Have Western RPGs supplanted JRPGs?

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Riachu said:

noname2200 said:

Riachu said:

noname2200 said:

Those Japanese developers need to change their development philosophy if they ever want to catch up to the Western developments.

 

No argument here, but do realize that a change in that philosophy will lead to a change in the games themselves. The product, no less than the business, must change with the times.

What's the development philosphies of the Japanese and Western game developers anyway?  I am not certain about the development philosophy's are.

 

Japanese Philosophy: Take our time, get the job done with some clean coding. Stick with the formulas we've been doing for years, rarely stray.

Western Philosophy: Rush it out the gates; we'll solve all the bugs in a patch in the following months. Try new directions until we find something that works. Hype hype hype, milk milk milk.

 

That's the pattern I noticed. A humble Japanese strategy vs aggressive Western strategy. Both need work in my opinion, one just happens to make a lot more money because people are dumb and fall for the same trick countless times.