And his view is actually why Japanese games are behind western games.
The "Hollywood Movie Budget" strategy is basically what turned Square from a huge successful japanese RPG company to staggering mess.
The Japanese are behind the US, not because of budgets... but because the Japanese make Japanese games.
Japanese games aren't the huge genres anymore... there design structures have fallen out of favor with most newer players.
They shouldn't be trying to spend tens of millions to make niche games or make pale copies of western games.
They should keep making their games, but shrink their development budgets. Do what they know, and just stay "2nd place". Wait for tastes to change, or to develop something distinctily Japanese that captures the publics imagination like FPS and WRPGs.
