Sounds like he wants to work for either Level-5 or Nintendo.  Too bad for him, both companies are definitely smart enough to steer clear of Inafune.

Okay let me get this right, Japan is behind, and their games need to be more westernized to sell.  BUT all of Capcom's failures came from "western" devs...  I honestly don't think Japanese devs can figure this out but your games not selling isn't because they're not "western" they don't sell cause you put everything on the DS and make nothing for consoles.

Let him rot at Capcom then!

Or let him join Activision, I am sure Kotick-San would be more than happy to take him on board!

The companies heavily supporting DS (Level-5, Square Enix, Atlus, etc) and to a lesser extent PSP, seem to be the ones doing better actually.  And Capcom's been pretty shitty on DS support actually, until just this year.

People on this site ignore hand helds too much.

Yes you are correct. But I think I got a revelation, the only devs complaining are Konami, Capcom and Square.  Not sure why Konami's complaining, but with Capcom their complaints are that their games arn't selling well enough in the West, but the only games arn't selling are bad games made by "western" devs everything made by Capcom Japan is selling well here.  Now with Square, you are correct about them supporting DS and PSP and making money off of them, but they keep on complaining for Western sales just like Capcom.  But I think with Square my point holds, their handheld games sell well here, but most of their sales come from Japan.  I think Square's complaints will go away with more console games.  I mean not including Eidos' games the only console games from Square in the last, what 5 years, is Final Fantasy 13 and The Last Remnant.  I think Square will get more sales in the "West" if they just make console games which they have been neglecting.

Not just this site, but the western press in general, and I'd argue western publishers too.  And this extends to Wii also... I mean, 90% of the attention in the industry gets focused on the two HD systems, whose combined userbase is less than a third what DS, PSP and Wii are combined.

That's the real problem in the games industry today, the massmarket has parted ways with the old word order, and those dinosaurs can't seem to adapt...

Well yeah, Capcom's complaints are doubly WTF since all their big deal western ventures have seemed to bomb spectacularly (Bionic Commando, Spyborgs, Dark Void).  Expect Dead Rising 2 and DmC to follow in their footsteps.

Square Enix has done pretty well in the west even on DS/PSP though.  Crisis Core, Dissidia, FFIII/IV, DQIX and KH 358/2d were all relative hits, and I'd say KH BBS/Re:Coded are going to do well also.  I'd agree, more HD RPGs would help in the west, but they're pretty lacking Wii side as well.  

Konami, I dunno.  It seems like they threw everything they had into MGS, and the rest of the company has suffered as a result.  The best Konami games I've played this gen were the WiiWare ReBirth titles, and M2 made those. :/

Yeah Square has had success with handhelds here, but I think he (Wada) wants 4 million sales for each game and well, I'm too lazy to look, but I don't think Square has gotten sales from handelds that high, except for Dragon Quest.  Or Wada's just crazy which I think is the case.  I think Wada reads too much forums or listens to gaming press too much.  I still hold by that if Square just made good console games they'd get their 5 million sellers.  On the other end with Capcom, I'm sure if they internally develop games instead of outsourcing they'd get their sales too (But that might be wrong cause Clover games never lit up the charts), or better yet maybe they should start advertising some games on T.V.  I havn't seen an ad from Capcom since Street Fighter 4 (Can't remember if they made any for Resident Evil).

Thing is, I'm not sure exactly what SE could do on consoles that'd be huge (ie: 4m plus) outside FF/KH/DQ, and most of those are already happening.  DS software has bottomed out in Europe though, and PSP is basically dead everywhere in the west, so moving on from them makes sense, but to 3DS/PSP2 or 360/PS3/Wii?  If SE made stuff like SaGa, Mana, Parasite Eve, Valkyrie Profile, etc for the consoles, they'd probably only sell as well as they would on handhelds anyway... I mean, it's not like TLR, SO4 or Nier exactly lit up the charts.  I don't expect Front Mission to either.

I actually saw Capcom TV ads in the US for RE5, Bionic Commando, MHFU, RE DSC, Dark Void, TvC, MH3, SSF4 and LP2 actually.  Tons for RE5, MH3 and LP2 especially, Capcom USA's pretty good with advertising here.