Japanese game makers on the 360

by Adams Briscoe on Jan 30th 2006 6:15PM

The trusty Japanese gaming source Famitsu recently featured a lot high-profile developers who had some comments to say about the Xbox 360 over there. Representatives from Capcom, Konami, Square Enix, and Namco were among the highlighted.

So what'd they have to say anyway? Well as far as Capcom is concerned, they're going to stick to watching the market, but that won't stop them from throwing 200 to 300 talented people at their next-gen projects. Konami is interested in developing titles that will help market the Xbox 360 in Japan, while still taking into consideration us gamers in America and Europe. Don't forget Sega: Mr. Miyazaki said that they are looking into the possibility of porting such arcade games like House of the Dead 4 and Virtua Fighter 5 to the 360.

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Reader Comments (5)

I think the problem lies in the fact that games for a next gen-console will cost 3 times what they use to cost to develop. So the market is a huge factor, you really can�t afford to make a game that is not going to do well, so of-course these companies are sitting on the side lines.
Just because these days it cost a lot of money to make these games, I don�t believe we will see as many games as we did in the past.
Game design times are longer � development time is longer � everything will just take more time, not to mention Japan is not too confident in X360 as being the next big system � it could just turn into Dreamcast. (how sad would that be)

First of all MS is not sega or a nintendo. MS and Sony are completely different monsters because they are not only in game console market. Sega in the other hand was and once they failed it was over, and that was after a long line of failers starting with gamegear, system add-ons, saturn, than finally dreamcast. This is only MS second console, they won't be going anywhere anytime soon, aslong as they have some exlusives here and there, and a continual killer app like Halo they will be fine just like the XB1.