Japanese games are showing Western devs HOW IT'S DONE!

[outlawauron]

Ka-pi96 said:

outlawauron said:

Well, from a business management sense, no. Japanese developers are good at keeping costs down, but not at finishing games quickly. From a end product standpoint, I do think that the West has to pick it up a bit. There's a space that has been lost with the slight downturn of yearly giants in Assasin's Creed, COD, etc. JP devs are filling and what should be niche titles are selling at good 1-2m clips.

hmm, the smaller ones are, although that's probably the same for western devs.

The biggers ones though (Square Enix, Konami, Sega, Capcom etc) aren't so good at that however.

I disagree. If Final Fantasy XV was able to break even with its day 1 shipment, they managed to keep costs low for dev cycle that long. Even if the current state of XV was only worked on for 4 years, they still had the pay the artists and writers for the 6 years before it.