Kresnik on 30 September 2012
| Christhor said: More than likely it's the loose platforming, it doesn't seem like something Japan would like. It might have also been marketing. Doubt it's bias against western developers, as they'll buy a good platformer if it's a good platformer, as evidenced by Crash and Ratchet & Clank. The best thing about LBP is the world and atmosphere itself, but what's to say that Japan would like those? |
Crash Bandicoot: Absolutely, the Japanese lapped that stuff up. But their tastes seem to have shifted quite a lot since then.
About Ratchet & Clank: The very first game on PS2 was heavily bundled with that console in Japan, which gave it inflated sales figures (and slowly trickled down into the second and third games). By the PS3, Japanese had lost interest in Ratchet & Clank.
