Inafune: “Japanese Game Industry is finished.” (Malstrom)

[johnsobas]

developers are just doing what they have to do. Sequels are nearly certain to make money, new unique ideas often lead to failure. It's too expensive to make a game these days, hundreds of people have a say in what happens in a game. It used to be that games were made by a small group of people and wasn't always being ordered around by higher ups. These are big investments that people take seriously and don't want to take chances.