Source: http://scrawlfx.com/2010/12/namco-bandai-shifts-development-focus-to-japan

Namco Bandai has announced its focus to shift development of new titles back to Japan, after its recent attempt at developing titles in the west proved unprofitable.

“We found the quality and development speed of titles made for us by the overseas studios to be lacking,” Namco Bandai President Shukuo Ishikawa said in an interview with Bloomberg in Tokyo yesterday. “Foreign studios can still propose and develop games, but our Japanese staff will control the process more closely.”

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a good example in this situation. The game, although it received fantastic reviews, only sold an approximate of 335,000 units worldwide. The company’s expectations for the Ninja Theory-developed game were much higher.

Namco Bandai earns more than 70 percent of its revenue in Japan, and wants to increase western sales to half of its total by March 31, 2016.

Let’s start by localizing Tales of Vesperia (PS3), Tales of Graces F, andTales of Xillia, then, eh?

Namco.... really? =_=

As long as they localise Tales of Vesperia PS3, either Tales of Graces and the upcoming 3D port of Tales of the Abyss, I couldn't give a toss

they shifted their focus to japan? when did they ever make an effort to anywhere outside japan?

Namco, has it ever maybe crossed your mind that you, and this is totally on a limb, suck too much to spend $60 on?

Honestly, I'm a huge Klonoa fan and I didn't buy the Wiimake of Klonoa because it was five hours long. Make good games, then we'll buy them.

P.S. We only ever liked you for your Tales series. Which you haven't brought over here. What do you expect?

Yuri Lowell agrees.

By Japan, for Japan.

NB is a bunch of greedy *****. :/

Greeeeeeat! Ensalve and NB dont match anyways.