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

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

youarebadatgames said:

Xxain said:

The Japanese HAVE to follow the western because they are the market leaders, Western developers are training the market to only appreciate 3 genre's and Big Mature Hardcore games( they destroyed the meaning of both Mature and Hardcore)

They are just giving people what they want, and people vote with their wallets.

Games might be high quality and get great reviews, but who gives a shit if no one wants to play it.

This.  Japanese developers are making games to cater to western tastes not because western games are 'superior' or because they're 'copying' them, but because the western markets are 4-5x bigger than the Japanese market and they're trying to increase their marketshare in the west.

But as we've seen with some companies such as SquareEnix, Koei, Konami and etc, this strategy is flawed as mostly what they're doing is just alienating their strong Japanese fanbase and the limited western fanbase they already had...which liked the games they were already making.  In other words, Wada should shut up and stop complaining that games like Infinite Undiscovery and Blue Dragon didn't sell and instead focus on improving the popular games his company already makes better.