Ucell said:
Currently the opposite seems far more likely. Western developers are far more ambitious than the Japanese (except Kojima Productions and Polyphony Digital). Video game crash is already hapening in Japan, can't say the same for the West. |
Compared to what? Japanese games are only "crashing" when compared to CoD sales. Wii U could be selling more than SNES or NES ever did but because oh no its not surpassing Call of Halo 15 3/4 it's a failure?
Japanese games are doing as well or better than they ever have. Ni no Kuni 1 million +. Bravely Default? Smashed it.
The difference is now everybody compares everything to Call of Horseshit and deems it a failure if it's not 10 million sold in 1 minute. Japanese still develop for their core niche audience and haven't sold out to the casual mainstream.
I remind again the most universally revered games of all time like Chrono Trigger , Final Fantasy VI, Link to the Past (?) Never broke 1 million on their original release yet were critical successes that made their developers what they are today.
Gaming was and is still niche. This Call of Duty and Angry Birds nonsense is a FLUKE, a mainstream fad, and the sooner people understand that and stop chasing $$$ the better we will all be. Can we get back to profitable successful 250k units awesome games? Fuck Call of Duty and Halo players. Namco doesn't make excuses when Tales sells under 500k, no, it's a success and they make more. What's your excuse for Final Fantasy not being profitable under 1 billion units, Square? Huh?
