Oh man I didn't realize he left out Capcom

Dang

why didn't anyone believe nintendo when they said the gaming industry was shrinking?

T.T...ignorant fools..now he has to pay ^_^

 yeah i didnt know who/ what started it just saw alot of mgs4 posts. but yeah i agree what you state, he bet on the wrong horse but then again we have seen games get a huge boost in its latter years. so maybe his horse will pull ahead in turn 4. my prediciton may be bold but i still believe it to be true. new ps3 owners (after this holidays probably atleast 4+ mil new ps3 owners) might want to try out some mgs4 awesomeness.

I don't think you understand: I'm agreeing with your interpretation. I'm just saying "mindshare" -- an entirely nebulous and unmeasurable term -- is nearly irrelevant compared to profits. As I said, if Japanese developers continue to get the profits while Western ones continue to get the "mindshare," Japanese developers will eventually overpower them. It's the reverse of last generation, when it was Western developers reaping enormous profits. That's how Electronic Arts got so huge: not by making amazing, influential games, but by making more money than anyone else and buying the other people up.

Kojima's looking at this from a developer's perspective, not from an economic one. Of course, we all know that business is more improtant than creative influence. That is my point.

Thats wrong Nintendo is making more money than EVER

Ah, yes, I did misunderstand, my sincere apologies.

Kojima is not a businessman; he is an auteur. "Mindshare" may be nebulous and immeasurable, but it is still very real, and he's watching consumer tastes slowly move away from Japanese games. His concern is probably more of a cultural one than a financial one. Does it make sense? No, not if you're a business - but Kojima considers himself an artist first, with everything that that self-distinction implies.

And, again, I don't think he's counting Nintendo.

Because you are positive let me do a pessimistic view:

- They prefer to make a game for DS/PSP lower cost and they have a nice userbase aswell.
- They already worked on a HD console project like the guy from DMC who is working now at Bayonetta for PS3/X360 the guys from Tecmo/Enchanted Arms.
-  They need money to make those games and MS and Sony are companies who like to pay money for games while Nintendo don't (If I was Nintendo I would not do it aswell).

And I think Darth better named WKC;  I think that could move some units and open the eyes of some devs I think and who knows what LBP will do?

And about WW sales  Nintendo is going to sell more Wii units next year than they did the first two years together? Well who knows but I think J-devs don't really care that much though about WW sales...  I mean look to the PSP when it was doing good in Europe and NA (HW wise) and not that great in Japan their were not that many announcements of games on the PSP from J-devs..But after the sales rised after MH (and dropped in the rest of the world or that is what I read whole the time on this forum 'PSP is going to die') their are like a ton of new J-games announced for PSP.

Oh Sorry my bad

so you think that the wii is going to sell 50 million units in the next 12 months?  we already guessed you where crazy, I think this now confirms it.

If so, then Kojima is part of the problem - catering exclusively to the "hardcore" with a bunch of flashy, talky junk that nobody outside of an admittedly sizable cadre of pretentious fanboys cares about.