He is a dumbass, and he reminds me of Wada. Trying to appeal to the west and forget about your fans in the first place is a bad idea. I'll blame a company for this but I wont say who. :P

Well, I dont know how right or wrong he is. But from personal experience, I used to love japanese games (specially JRPG) when I was younger.

Now, its all about Western games for me now (specially WRPG), with a few rare exceptions.

I know I over over dramatized it but CLOVER Studios was the hat and Soul of CAPCOM and CAPCOM shat them down because there Games did not sell well which is a crying shame because Viewtiful Joe, Viewtiful Joe 2, Okami, God Hand were awesome. Thank goodness they formed Platinum Games to keep the Dream Team together.    

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I never quite get thing 'Japan is behind' jazz, IMO Nintendo themselves are at least a couple of years ahead of the rest of the gaming industry.

Japan outside Nintendo and Level-5 hasn't been quite as rosy on the business and profit side of things  though

Now I can honestly say, I am so glad platinum games exist away from this company at its people. 

Japan might be five years behind on PS360, which (if we discount PC), make up 81 million out of the roughly 350 million dedicated current-generation gaming devices out there.

On those other 270 million gaming devices, the West is barely even a presence worth mentioning, and i'm only really exaggerating a little on that point. Western devs have neglected that 270 million-strong space that is Wii, DS, and PSP horrendously, and until they get their act together on that front, will never be able to combat Japan

Hudson's actually done really well this gen too, thanks to their Wii games taking off and the Virtual Console.  Capcom had been going gold with HD/Wii hits until just recently too though.

Nintendo and Level-5 are the undisputed leaders though, in terms of growth and innovation.  Almost everyone else is either treading water or falling behind.

Infaune though, needs to STFU and make me MML3. >:(

Can't wait until DR2 and DmC bomb horribly... outside fighters and handhelds, Capcom's looking pretty shitty for the coming year(s).

A summary of what he said in a recent interview:

Just to make a summary of what he said in that interview:

- Everyone at the TGS is making awful games
- Japanese game developers are making games that are 5 years behind and stuck in the last-gen mindset
- There is no diversity or originality in game play, ideas, or design
- Capcom is barely keeping up
- Japan is behind because when they find an idea that works, they stick with the formula, just tweaking graphics and/or image quality
- Japan is also behind because publishers are not putting $75 million budgets behind the games for development/marketing
- Shadow of Rome failed because it was only superficially westernized
- Resident Evil, on the other hand, succeeded because the main character was American and spoke English
- Japanese games cannot be popular overseas anymore in their pure state; they are like sushi and North America requires California Rolls.
- Monster Hunter will never be a success overseas because it is Japanese to the core and any attempt to change it will make it unpopular in Japan
- Games that sell globally are best, but selling only in Japan is okay if they make a profit
- It's getting harder to make a profit on Japan-only software because the domestic market is smaller than ever
- Buying overseas companies is just a start, it takes a lot of work to yield proper dividends from such a relationship
- Lost Planet 1 was totally okay for westerners, but the team that made Lost Planet 2 screwed up and made it too Japanese and that's why it failed
- You can't take on America head-on, you have to use strategy
- Inafune's strategy was to bring robots into the game and use harsh environments, but Lost Planet 2 lost its way
- He can't do everything he wants to do at Capcom. He's been strong-arming things through but there's still a lot of resistance
- Pay is shitty, leadership is nebulous, and Inafune thinks he can't be on the board or directors because management thinks developers are stupid. That's the difference between Nintendo and Capcom.
- If Capcom changes, the Japanese games industry will change.
- Level 5 rox
- It's too late for Japan to enter the US gaming market, it will take years now. Japan needs to focus on entering emerging markets in China and Korea.
- Japanese gaming is dead
- Inafune loves Japan and wants to save it
- Everyone needs to face up to the reality that the Japanese games industry is dead.
- Capcom is ranked low globally, is dead no matter how you approach it. Resident Evil only sold 5 million copies. Not good enough.
- Inafune fancies himself like the revolutionary samurai Ryoma Sakamoto, who made strong efforts to open up Japan to the West and got assassinated.
- Inafune daydreams about being assassinated in medieval times for being so bad-ass.

I mean, look at that. Look at his criticisms. He hasn't got the slightest clue about what Western games are doing to succeed. Oh yes, Western developers never stick to the formula... what was the top-selling game last year again? Call of Duty 6, was it?

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LOLOLOLOLOL @ INAFUNE!

Holishit!  Infaune must be pissing off about everyone... I wonder if he's planning on leaving soon?

I REALLY don't understand

Its like he's having a mid life crisis and he's taking out all his anger in this wayu

But if you literally READ all the silly things he's said in that interview it seems like he's about to get fired or he's descending into madness!