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Soundwave on 08 December 2016
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BraLoD said:
Soundwave said:

What AAA games from Japan are even left?

Betcha the FFXVI team is being told they're not going to be given the budget/time for XV team got. Not with these sell through numbers and not with likely S-E having poisoned the brand with retailers by overshipping out their ass. 

There's not going to be anyone left in Japan willing to finance Japanese games that have any kind of large budget the way things are going now. 

You think S-E is going to greenlight a Final Fantasy game for say the PS5 which has an even higher budget due to increasing graphics demands the way this shit show is shaking out? Noooooope.

What does this question have to do with anything I've posted? Seriously?
I'm pointing AAA games sell better elsewhere, which is the truth, if Japan lacks AAA games being developed there nowdays, and the only one, as you are implying with this question, is also selling better elsewhere, your question is also supporting my post, even not being related to anything I've actually said.
AAA games aren't focused on the Japan audience primarly anymore, even a Japanese AAA game.

Thanks for agreeing.

Nothing is selling up to par in Japan at all, but Nintendo and Monster Hunter stuff basically at this point. 

This isn't even just about AAA games, this is about Japanese games period. A lot of these developers are going to be forced into making iOS/Android games because there is no foundation for traditional gaming in Japan left outside of Nintendo and they're too damn stubborn to support Nintendo I guess. I hope that changes with the Switch, but who knows. 

When they go to pitch their next project and ask for money from the business suits at their company, they are not going to get it because the business suits are not fucking stupid. They don't give a crap about gaming, this is just cold, hard dollars and cents (and yen) to them. Without a plausible large scale Japanese user base to point and say "this is a audience we feel we can sell to", Japanese developers are screwed for traditional gaming. 

The West is not going to be a messiah for Japanese gamers either the "dudebros" here don't give a poop about some game with some feminine looking boy band reject on the cover. If Square-Enix wanted to make a fantasy game for the Western audience, they should watch some freaking Game Of Thrones. That's the shit people in the West want to see, not some road trip bromance with Korean J-Pop Stars. But "selling out" to Western interests isn't really the answer either. If people want a Western game ... they're gonna play like one of the 10383838 Western games, a Japanese "take" on that will always come off like a cheap imitation.