happydolphin on 06 March 2012
| RolStoppable said: There are two main problems with the Japanese video game industry: 1) They are playing by the rules of the Western publishers, even though Nintendo showed time and time again that this is not necessary. 2) They believe they always have to do something crazy new. Number 1 is solved by sidestepping, i.e. put most, if not all, of your weight on Nintendo platforms where the Japanese style can thrive. This should have already been done five years ago though. Number 2 is solved by leaving established IPs alone and refining them instead of shaking them up. That's the one major point where the East doesn't try to emulate the West. All the West really does is putting out one sequel after another and new IPs are generally rip-offs of established concepts. The Western development process doesn't suit the East. With PC games migrating to consoles, the East is facing new challenges. That is, on the consoles where these PC games migrated to. Hence why placing their bets on Nintendo would be a good idea, but if they do this, they all need to do it and they need to be serious about it. Not putting out some crazy experiments and halfassed spinoffs. There are still some kickass Japanese games nowadays, but they are getting fewer. Upon rereading this, it is quite incoherent. Third parties betting on Nintendo might sound like suicide, but the video game industry also said this to Nintendo when they created the Wii. And I better go to bed now. |
I didn't find this incoherent at all. It was interesting. Not sure how true, but insightful nonetheless.
