Have Western RPGs supplanted JRPGs?

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Shadow)OS said:

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 agressive 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.

Maybe in general, but "milk milk milk" seems to apply more to JRPGs than to WRPGs.