Square-Enix CEO Calls Out Japanese Gamers on Western Bias!!!!

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Xxain said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Xxain said:
at Kenryoku - LOLOLOLL thats Soaft Ware NOT STAR WARS :).... seriously all signature western genres... SHOOTERS, ACTION, and SPORTS are dominant genres this gen...to my disgust( especially shooters)

And again, like I said before, they didn't get that way simply because of 'western games'.  Those genres are not limited to Western developers.  Plenty of Action and Sports titles are released in Japan.  And shooters got popular mostly in Japan in the late 80s.  You mean 'First Person' shooters.  In which case, once again, I point out that you're trying to blame the XBOX for everything this gen.

Im not blaming XBOX, im blaming western developers for they way theve trained the Market..... the flawed " Mature Game" thinking AKA - BLOOD, CUSSING, VIOLENCE CINEMATIC , BLOCK BUSTER was caused by Western developers, the over saturation of SHOOTERS/ SPORTS / and ACTION games was caused by Western developers.... Look at the Sequel after sequel after sequel mindset all Western developers, Japanese does it too, but at least we get other IP's inbetween. if Western developers continue to lead the market thats when it will dies .... Japanese developers comes 1st there the only creative ppl never ever should a gen be lead by Western developers EVER.

Dude, is this for real? I love Japanese games as much as your average otaku but I see things objectively. This gen at least, the west has been more productive than Japan. This is a fact. I too have been saddened by that fact because less variety is bad not necessarily because Japanese games are inherently better. They just have a longer legacy. The West is more like the infant in the industry. Violent cinematics aren't unique to the west either. If anything the whole "M" label thing supposedly costs the companies profit. "T" is the apparent target for most games.

You may think shooters, sports games, etc are lame but whatever sells is what developers are going to make. You sound like the western devs created the audience whereas, they only catered to the audience that was already there. Japan is just as guilty as the west regarding sequels. S-E and Ninty use the names "final fantasy" and "Mario" in front of many games with no connection at all just to sell more copies. At least western sequels tend to make more sense.

The biggest irony about your post and perhaps the saddest is that JP devs themselves are starting to copy the west while the west remains comfortable in its own skin. Resident evil 5 is a GeOW clone down to the main character design. Nier Gestalt? Quantum Theory? Some Sega shooter called "Stormrise" or something like that so who's the better side at the end of the day?