Fez's dev to Japanese dev At GDC: "Your games just suck"...Japanese Developer Leaves GDC

[Acevil]

famousringo said:

Acevil said:
My question is simple, why is Nintendo generally ignored when it comes to Japanese games?

It's strange. I think what happens psychologically is that you look at the exceptional one and dismiss it as an exception. The rules clearly don't apply to Nintendo, so there's no point in bringing up Nintendo when discussing the rules. The error is that the exceptional ones are just as much a part of the system as the more ordinary examples.

You see this kind of thing elsewhere. Analysts are starting to cut Apple out of their market analysis.The company is huge yet still growing so rapidly, and so the analysts say it's distorting the picture of the market as a whole. They then proceed to paint a bleak picture of market performance. Well of course things look bleak, you just sliced the biggest engine of growth completely out of the picture!

Again it is something that seems kind of silly, as competitors do rise to the top. Even while ignoring Nintendo, companies shouldn't ignore the great efforts made by organizations such as Level-5, that have done wonderful in the west.