| Mr Khan said: Started last gen, really, with Kamiya, Inafune, and Mikami ditching Capcom. Itagaki and Tecmo, Igarashi and Konami, Naka and Suzuki and SEGA all of the older generation of Japanese game designers that aren't with Nintendo or Square Enix. The trouble they all seem to be running into is... finding publishers. Mikami got well set up with Zenimax, while Kamiya's Platinum dumped by Sega, mercenary working for Konami and now living basically on Nintendo's charity, Naka's Prope has had its game in development hell, Inafune is stuck punting around on Kickstarter, and Devil's Third is also fast in danger of becoming vaporware (whatever the rumors might say). Mistwalker's been pretty successful, though we haven't heard a thing from them since Last Story. |
I typed a slightly lengthy reply to you but it got lost when my ISP dropped, the gist of it was:
- Inafune has done far more than just "punted around on kickstarter"
- The other devs should set their sights more appropriately on smaller publishers like MAQL or Atlus rather than returning to AAA development if they really wanted to get out of it.
