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Forums - Gaming - Interview with SE's Yoichi Wada

Full article is:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/11/a-flat-world-ars-interviews-square-enix-ceo-yoichi-wada.ars

Some interesting stuff, future SE games should all see simultaneous WW releases? Very cool

Interesting thing about the Japanese market:

"The Japanese community tends to be closed," he told Ars. "In the past Japanese retailers have said that Japanese gamers have their own idiosyncrasies and tastes, and that that is the reason why the audience is not accepting of overseas titles. But I believe that is not the case, it was just a matter of poorly executed marketing."

I read this as with proper marketing, even the 360 could start to have a stronger place in the Japanese scene. Or, maybe better put, MS has failed to properly market to the Japanese community. Haha this isn't necessarily correct though.

Thoughts?