This sounds more to me like more ramblings of developers who are mad that their preferred medium (HD consoles) aren't popular in a specific region (Japan). And they're pointing the finger at what they think could be the only problem. It CERTAINLY couldn't be how the games are made, and it certaily couldn't be the system, so it must be the fans and Japan itself!
Once again I say, way to go. Japanese fans sure are gonna go running out and buying all those beautiful console games if you keep calling them ignorant and telling them 'they don't know what they like'. Sure, Japan is full of mindless drones who just skip over console games because they don't know any better. And America is the land of the free where everyone knows consoles are superior! Which is why the DS is also the most popular system here.....oops.
Also, I find it completely ironic for a developer to be trying to give advice for 'cutting costs' when they work on HD consoles making multi-million dollar games with flashy cinematics and are trying to chastise an industry that is build on being frugal. Or did they not notice that DS and Cel Phone based games cost 1/10th the amount to make?
Of course they didn't.
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