Inafune: Japanese devs have to 'get humble'

@Dr Acula

Indeed.

They need to repel the douchebag armies from the West.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze
I thought the Japanese were okay with the Koreans and Chinese.

@Dr Acula

Pfft.

@Dr Acula koreans, yea. chinese, unsure.

WWII sentiments would like to have a chat with you.

@BlackedOut

No love for Canada? Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto all have big time developers there I do believe.

@BlackedOut It's hard to agree with you. Don't get me wrong- there are a FEW truly great games out of japan a year. But compared to US and European studios? Not even close sadly.

@TheMainProtagonist : Perfect point. Don't forget Edmonton, the home of Bioware.

@OremLK

Arcadey games are what drive the market primarily. The closer to the arcade experience you get, generally the more units and consoles you sell. Even the top-selling experiences on PS3 and 360 attest to that.

@Mr Khan Maybe in Japan. In the U.S., players want a more immersive experience. If all they care about is the Japanese market they can keep making this crappy, shallow games, but don't expect me to buy them.

@OremLK
I loled. Get ready for school tomorrow.

@Mr Khan

What's ahead in the US? Even if we exclude Nintendo stuff, you look at Halo, Call of Duty, Guitar Hero. These games sell because they are arcadey.

@Acosta02 : But didn't Capcom recently say that they weren't going to actively get US developers to make some of their traditionally Japanese titles? Or something like that.

@Mr Khan

Considering the vast majority of games available on the 360, PS3, PC, and even the PSP are developed by Western companies, I fail to see how you have a point. Sheer numbers alone put Japanese developers at a disadvantage in the current market; for every Japanese-developer heavy hitter released, there are three or four Western games competing with it.

@pButter

Oh also, how can we forget Nintendo? The've been the king of gaming since like, forever.

@Haelie

One developer doing exceptional work doesn't really make up for many developers being lazy.

@ailurus74 : And (absolutely no offense intended) especially a developer that takes so long to put out games.

@Hawaii Jeff

Bayonetta was still a VERY typical Japanese game. Not that it's bad, but it's a terrible example when you could have more reasonably said MadWorld as an example.

@mmxzer0
RE5, DMC4 and LP2 were all awesome. RE 5 was cool, a next gen variant of their successful RE4 premise, with co-op. Absolutely fabulous. Ignore all the bad press about supposed racial undertones, its a good game. DMC4 was kinda meh for me, i was never a big fan of the series, but the public loved it, and the reviewers gave it relatively high scores. I thought it was fun, but kinda more of the same. Gave my copy to a buddy of mine.
Lost Planet 2 however is insane. Great Multiplayer again, probably coulda used some GUI tweaks, but its fun to hop in and out of campaign and battles. I personally feel like LP2 was a stronger title than DMC4, but what do I know. It ends up being less popular.

I personally think their design choice for SFIV was weak as hell, and yet the public loves it. And I am a classic SF fanboy. What I am trying to say is that its all kinda relative. Agreed, they shouldnt make it their focus to appeal to the western markets, true. And bring MH over stateside. Quit effing around. Reboot some old franchises (onimusha, anyone?) Give Rockman a effing vacation for pete's sake. Chun Li too. Whatever happened to Arika and the SF EX engine? What about Rival Schools?

The consumer can be (and most often is) very fickle at times, and hard to read & please.

@Spookimitsu late reply here lol
The only one I hadnt played is LP2 and was hesitant to add it, but said it anyhow on general reactions. Re5 was great fun just not re4 great for numerous reasons. DMC4 gameplay was great for both Dante and Nero I thought but was lacking in other areas.
As for SSFIV, Im not where I want to be skill-wise yet, but I think it plays great and looks great.

And yeah Capcom has a bunch of series that they could tap into that should definitely be revisited if developed with care. Looking at my comment, seems like the western outsourcing missteps will continue :/

And I hope leobebes is a joke poster.

@deftonesmx17

*claps*

@deftonesmx17

The amount of game featuring Mario is over 200 probably like 200 or something to that nature since his debut in 1985. That means they had to have put out at least 8 games a year every year featuring this one character. That my friends is the true definition of milking.

@deftonesmx17

You make a good point, but all of these Mario games have been made throughout the years on numerous different consoles.

Call of Duty is relatively young, and it seems like within the last few years there have been as many titles as there have been Maddens. (Albeit, I have already traded in my MW2 and currently am anticipating Black Ops)

Monster Hunter Tri is awesome, MGS 4 is very cool but all of these are kinda love it/hate it franchises. True RE5 might have lost touch with the survivalist roots, but damn is it fun.

Personally, I would like to see them update their classic D&D coin-ops for this generation of consoles, nice 6 player online RPG action would be nice (better get here before the new Diablo takes over the internet). Or Strider, we haven't seen a strider since they started practicing karate with Ryu. Or 1943.

And then they would do something like only release it in Nihon, just to piss me off.

@deftonesmx17

have you forgotten about Demon's effing Souls!? or just not played it?

@Xav de Matos Haha, nice

@Crayola Q Pants ESQ

Where do you see androgynous male characters and cute talking animals in Mass Effect? Everything that resembled an animal wanted to take my face off.

And unless you purposefully create your character to look feminine, there are no male characters which you are unsure of their sex.

@Drakkenfyre

That's kinda my point. They could make a JPRG which plays like and has the depth of ME but still adheres to the cultural stuff which makes games distinctly Japanese, but noone is.

It's almost to the point where people are beginning to perceive rehashed gameplay elements as also being a cultural thing