Keiji Inafune says Japanese developers need to learn from overseas devs

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Mnementh said:
I'm unsure about this. Although he is a good game developer, that doesn't mean he is automatically right. Japanese game devs have to learn from the west, to achieve what? Better games? More sales?

I think he targets at the sales. He says:
"Unless at least a few titles from Japan make it to the top 10 games of the year worldwide, we won't prove it."
and
"They know they have to learn more from western games and create games that'll sell more in the western market."

It is all about sales. As a gamer I'm not so much interested.

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 So the japanese devs might learn from western devs - but please merge it into something unique, don't copy western games.

Yes  !  If all japanese games have graphics like Tomb Raider , Uncharted , etc. ...  It will give us a too serious and dark background . It will be depressing  :(