| SaviorX said: I'll just post what I did in the VGC article: He says it like a blowhard without manners but he is right. There is a shift towards portables, and on the console side of things, a large majority of Japanese devs are idiots. |
What you call 'idiots', others would call being smart and not taking unnecessary risks. Why should a Japanese company make a 200 million dollar game based on the 360 pr PS3 when the Japanese market is focused on portables and the American market is so iffy. Is sure didn't work well for companies like Square Enix, Level 5 and Namco. Likewise, countless other western based companies have had low selling games after trying to make high budget HD games. But no one ever looks at those. You only pat attention to the big sellers like Modern Warfare 2, Grand Theft Auto 4, and Halo 3.
As I've already said, the handheld market is easier to develop for simply because you can make a game for 1/10th the cost and the Japanese market is already jumping on it. Just because some of you think consoles are the end all of gaming doesn't mean handhelds are inferior.
Six upcoming games you should look into:
