Can Japanese games ever catch up?

[Pristine20]

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Pristine20 said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:
Nintendo leads, so its the west that needs to catch up

Hard to take you seriously with predictions like that. Wii will outsell the entire PS family? lmao.

Sure Ninty stil sells the most software altogether but they certainly dont "own" all the genres burgrimar has listed.

The probalem with Genres, is that owning a genre doesn't mean much if a genre doesn't have as big an audience and has higher costs, if you have a choice between the exercise genre and the FPS, the exercise has a much bigger audience and better profits, so why would you bother with the FPS as much, when getting the exercise would be much more beneficial

And if you're are not one who's into exercise gaming...why would you care? Truth is, the exercise market would saturate and the bubble will burst if everyone starts to jump in.

however, thats besides the point. do you think gaming would be able to maintain it's userbase if all it's companies started focusing solely on "easy profit" genres like exercise? As much as I'd love to give nintendo credit for "innovation" , gaming would probably crash if we had nothing but the likes of wii sports and wii fit left to play. It's nice to be able to throw in the wii sports once in a while but if the likes of Halo were to disappear, many would probably lose interest in gaming completely

Lastly, sadly, the reason you stated is why I may never see another fire emblem (my own fav ninty franchise on wii). You gotta wonder whether nowadays, gamers care more about how much money their favorite companies make compared to whether they actually get games they'd love to play. I mean, some of you seem perfectly happy watching sales graphs instead of playing anything and I thought what brought us all here in the first place was our love for games. guess I was naive lol.