Wada: Globalization has failed due to " Japanese direction"

[Alic0004]

Khuutra said:

Alic0004 said:

What he's saying is that they need to stop making Japanese games that try to appeal to a Western audience.  They should let Western developers make Western games, and Japanese developers make Japanese games.  This is possibly the first astute thing I've ever heard Wada say.  And then we collective spaz out on him.  And act as if he said the opposite, or as if the real issue is that he hasn't realized he could just make his company like Nintendo and everything would be great.  I'm starting get the feeling there's a real disconnect with reality here.

This isn't a full answer, though. S-E's current business model cannot be supported by sales of Japan-centric games alone.

Where does he say that?

 

He's saying let Western devs lead on western games, and Japanese devs lead on Japanese games.  If this leads to the Japanese developers at SE making games which are unapologetically japanese, but SE still localizes them for the rest of the world, that would be exactly what most of the people on this forum want.  At the same time, they have already seen success with their support of Eidos, a company that was considered to be dying before they stepped in.  I'm not sure we disagree...  but I'm also not sure what you're saying, Khuutra?