| S.T.A.G.E. said: PC developers entered the console gaming realm via Microsoft and the first Xbox and challenged the lagging quality of western gaming. Japan was destroying the west in console development, but didn't realize true top-tier western dominance until the PC devs jumped ship. Now even the western console devs are learning from the PC devs and are getting stronger because of it. |
So why in the hell don't Japanese corporations "learn" from Western corporations, as Walmart and Xerox did with Japanese, and start working with PC devs that are masters in RPG/Indy development? Business strategy failure?
| Kresnik said:
(Besides, I always find it absurd that it's possible to criticize small Japanese devs. After the generation we've had in the west of company after company shutting their doors for making too ambitious projects which bombed; we should be looking to Japanese teams who are still chugging along to see what they're doing differently. The answer? Identify your market and sell the game to them and KEEP_WITHIN_A_BUDGET). |
Kresnik a lot of them went under but also a good amount of them released hits like Minecraft, Splosion man, Journey, State of Decay and got some fat contract due to their discernment.
