| aikohualda said: fuck getting the west... there are enough western studios for that... why would i want 2 exact thing. i like variety. you dont want to play games that would generally cater "japanese" market? then play the games that western studios get you. why are people so against variety. its amazing. |
I really don't think it's about being opposed to variety. It seems more like an attempt to diagnose why Japan is hemorrhaging relevance. To some extent that was bound to happen as other countries came into their own as hotbeds of game development. Japan's complete dominance was sort of a historical fluke that couldn't last forever. But they didn't have to fall as far and as fast as they did, and it seems - at least to me - that they have done so because of a loss of confidence causing them to respond poorly to the changing market: while some Japanese developers have ham handedly tried to westernize their games and/or farm out their IPs to western developers, others have turned dangerously inward and focus solely on the stereotypical moe/waifu-obsessed otaku. Neither strategy is a recipe for success, and the latter is as off-putting to many Japanese gamers and would be gamers as it is to westerners.
