| Nem said:
Well, i have read articles of RARE employees leaving because of the Avatar thing. You might be right, but i never read into that so i cant say you're right or wrong. As for the japanese, different cultures are very different. I dont know if you ever travelled abroad or lived in other countries, but every country is very different and different things have different levels of importance. While it sounds dumb to you, and to me even though i understand, there are cultural reasons for the japanese to act that way as its most beneficial to their economy and might have foundation on past grudges aswell (WW2, the US did drop nukes on them). Its perfectly natural that they developed a more protectionist culture to protect their identity. Things never are as simple as they seem. If you were born a Japanese you would probably reject the 360 aswell. Its not something that can be changed from night to day, it takes decades, maybe centuries to change a cultural mindset. There are some crazy exceptions sometimes like apple though. Thats when the marketing manages to hit a critical nerve (portable gadgets are a japanese thing). |
On the culture part you're right on the ball, I live in the UK and it is heavily marketed to give home grown/made products a go, it's nothing to do with not liking anything foreign as the UK is one of the most diverse in cultures in the world it's a sense of pride and being self sufficient it may sound strange and hard to fathom but that's something, as the culture here goes anyone or anything that helps further us deserves support. I imagine the Japanese may have a similar thing in their culture and some people may be misinterpreting it.
On Rare, the studio actually had some issues before hand, this also applies to the people earlier who were talking about Nintendo teaming up for a first person shooter but Retro only exist because after Goldeneye something bagen going wrong at Rare. Nintendo sensing this formed Retro in a business deal back in the late 90s and many people behind the N64 Turok games jumped over to Retro, this is why Metroid Prime had a very Turok style feel to it (for those earlier they already have a team capable of good shooters). You are right that further problems came up during the MS era of Rare but I can't blame MS' frustration at that point tbh.
