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Even if the Japanese gaming industry was just Nintendo, they would still kick the arse of the West a lot of the time.

Outside of Nintendo and Level-5, Japan isn't quite as rosy




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Inafune is blaming his recent mediocre games on others in the japanese industry , he keep on making these mediocre western-wannabe games while other great developers keep on being great.



I live for the burn...and the sting of pleasure...
I live for the sword, the steel, and the gun...

- Wasteland - The Mission.

Yawn...that's why Japanese publishers are doing fine while Western publishers are pissing money away.



Rockstar: Announce Bully 2 already and make gamers proud!

Kojima: Come out with Project S already!

The Japanese Industry is fine. Yea there struggleing with a identity crisis, and a stagment in game desigh but thats nowhere near the dangers that western world brings to the industry.

Lets make movies not games mentality

abuse of DLC

anual releases of basically the same game over and over again

 

just the genral lack of creativity, imagination, and originality. The day western developers rule the industry is the day the true crash will happen... thay just dont have talent to maintain it by themselves



kowenicki said:

Yes.  Of course it is.

There is lots of evidence and support for this notion and I have cited much of it in the past...always been shot down though because the much of this site, its forum and its owners/contributors have a soft spot (might even say favour) the Japanese games industry.

Now I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that but it does tend to colour ones judgement. 

 

Seek the truth harder my friend.



I live for the burn...and the sting of pleasure...
I live for the sword, the steel, and the gun...

- Wasteland - The Mission.

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no, Pokemon, Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, and there is more




       

Yet EA/THQ are making losses but S-E, Konami, Nintendo are making profits and high revenue's.

Konami made more profit than Activision-Blizzard last quarter......that is hilarious!!



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

darthdevidem01 said:

Yet EA/THQ are making losses but S-E, Konami, Nintendo are making profits and high revenue's.

Konami made more profit than Activision-Blizzard last quarter......that is hilarious!!






Xxain said:

The Japanese Industry is fine. Yea there struggleing with a identity crisis, and a stagment in game desigh but thats nowhere near the dangers that western world brings to the industry.

Lets make movies not games mentality

abuse of DLC

anual releases of basically the same game over and over again

 

just the genral lack of creativity, imagination, and originality. The day western developers rule the industry is the day the true crash will happen... thay just dont have talent to maintain it by themselves

Seriously, considering 4 games out of my top 5 this gen are Japanese-developed (with the Western game being my fifth favorite), I just don't understand these comments about how Japan is lacking compared to the West in innovation, especially from Inafune.



Rockstar: Announce Bully 2 already and make gamers proud!

Kojima: Come out with Project S already!

huaxiong90 said:
Xxain said:

The Japanese Industry is fine. Yea there struggleing with a identity crisis, and a stagment in game desigh but thats nowhere near the dangers that western world brings to the industry.

Lets make movies not games mentality

abuse of DLC

anual releases of basically the same game over and over again

 

just the genral lack of creativity, imagination, and originality. The day western developers rule the industry is the day the true crash will happen... thay just dont have talent to maintain it by themselves

Seriously, considering 4 games out of my top 5 this gen (with the Western game being my fifth favorite), I just don't understand these comments about how Japan is lacking compared to the West in innovation, especially from Inafune.





All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey