Pride clouds vision for Japanese devs, says Inafune

i vote western and eastern developers get together and swap ideas, because they both have the solutions to eachother's greatest flaws

If there's anything I learned from playing Ace Combat Assault Horizon, it's that I don't like 'western influence' in Japanese games.

i don't want japan to stop being japan , i just down want their games to feel like something i was playing in the 1990's

If people dont get that this whole issue is about money and economics then I cant help you....it has to do with what will sella and what doesnt in a bad economy. And unfortunately that kills the artistry and quality of games when its strictly about economics....

he speaks the truth. But Japan can still make some good games (though more rarely). Look at Dark Souls, Vanquish, Bayonetta, Mario Galaxy, etc. They have certain styles that even us westerners appreciate. Yes there are some obvious struggles going on in the industry but that also counts for western studios. Lucasarts and THQ are gone, EA is doing miserably. The industry as a whole needs to re-evaluate its business ethics as well as development process imo.

"Even worse, their pride gets in the way, preventing them from learning from overseas developers. As a result, they end up staying in the domestic market rather than going global,"

Mr Keiji you need to reconsider...

You tried before to westernize your games... Plenty of examples...

Resident evil 5 - Resident evil 6 - Dead Rising - RE operation Racoon city - Lost Planet - DMC -

Steel Batalion - Bionic Commando - Dark Void - ...

How much more of west influence you want i dont get it ... YOU FAILED in most of cases simply because you were desperatly trying to copy-->paste this western formula...

The only successful games you had were .. 90% , sequels of TRUE JAPANESE titles like Street fighter 4 etc etc ... Okami was EPIC but no .. you want more west in your games right ?

This gen Capcom became CRAPCOM and thats because of this westernization got obsessed with. Have a nice mister...

IMO Japanese games are fine. Their only problem in my opinion is those awfully effeminate male characters. Just this can turn off a lot of potential players. I don't think that Japanese developers get how much those effeminate characters are hated in the west.

The ignorance that western developers only make CoD type of games is just that - ignorance. Racing, action/adventure, sports, and puzzle games are also big genres here which the hypocrites also fail to mention.

Oh, and like most innovations in the game industry - westerners developed the archaic turn based RPG (see Commodore 64) that has the japanese industry in a rut. Maybe their lack of innovation is their problem.

If they want to sell more games worldwide, then release the games worldwide. I am still waiting on that Tales of Vesperia for my PS3. I have the 360 version, but I want that extra content. How about that Phoenix Wright Professor Layton crossover. It is Japans fault for not releasing these games overseas.

"They know they have to learn more from Western games and create games that'll sell more in the western market."

so what are you saying inafune? you want them to start making the following: sports games, FPS, 3PS, grand theft auto like games, uncharted like games, GodOW like games and stuff like that? if that's the case, I'll have no future games to buy for pretty much all I buy comes from japan and I'm someone who was born in the caribbean and currently lives in the "west" at least the continent part of the west.

What I like about japanese games is they tend to have powerful attacks, say like compare Dragon's Dogma attacks to Gothic 4 attacks and you can easily tell Dragon's Dogma attacks feels more better.

to me i think that japanese developers just afraid of losing money. They do not want to risk! since the rise of CODs and western's FPS in general..... the majority of japanese developers are too scared to even try to beat the sales. They stop before they even try!

Resident Operation let western make it, Silent Hill Downpour let western make it, DMC let western make it and the art is just too damn funny its laughable! japanese seems like they allow themselves to rely on western which losing their own pride, their own strength..... just all for money and sales.

Originality and creativity supose to come first not money. If they gonna let western to do their games they could of let Naughty Dog or Guerrilla or Epic to do it and not some studio that are so bad at art like DMC, Elder Scrolls, Home Front.

Wheres my Shinobi? wheres my Omnimusha? wheres my God Hand? wheres my Suikoden?

Japanese developers seems like they chose to gave up on global market.

I disagree. Western games are popular because they appeal to us in the west and we are the bigger market. More sales means more investments which made our industry very strong and practically better than the Eastern industry. But that doesn't mean this is exactly a 'good' tendency. We're dangerously close to a 1983 style videogame crash.

I mean, most Western AAA titles nowadays are bloated multi-million dollar productions that need over 5 million copies to pay for themselves while the Eastern devs are usually doing much leaner stuff like Dragons Dogma or Revengeance that were successful even with less than 2 million sold each.

With climbing dev costs, in about 5 years, anything that's not CoD level will be a loss and we'll be flooded in a even deeper wave of military shooters. The industry will not be able to sustain itself and it may happen that AAA titles will be relegated to 2 or 3 big games a year or even disappear altogether.

No, no, no and no. The entire reason Japanese games have been in decline during this generation is BECAUSE Japanese developers are trying to copy Western developers. We don't need more of that! Just look at what happened to one of the biggest players around: Final Fantasy. They decided that they needed to be faster, more action-packed, more like Call of Duty (I still don't understand this notion), and what do we have now? You can't even call these games Final Fantasy any more; they've been ruined and the fans are running for the hills.

Japanese developers enjoyed huge notoriety in previous generations because they were doing things their own way, and doing it well. That is what Hideo Kojima continues to do until this day--his way, and screw anybody who thinks its weird--and his games continue to become more and more popular all the time. Japan needs people with creative vision, and those who hone their native craft; not copycats. Call of Duty is massively popular because it does its own thing and does it well. No one has succeeded in copying that because if people want Call of Duty, they'll buy freaking Call of Duty!! If I want games like Ni no Kuni or Catherine, I'm not going to find that in the West.

I look to Japan for something decidedly different from Western games, and they've stopped providing that. Surprise, surprise, their business has suffered as a result.

Pride? Or is it an Asian form of racism, their mindset being that Americans are very, very lazy? Either way, this kind of competition is good for consumers.

If you ask me the japans games devs need to ball up man. They all keep trying to play it safe most of the JRPG's are on handhelds for lower production cost! They need to learn somthing for Ni No Kuni: wraith of the white witch and man up that game was awesome and still very japanese. They just need to take a chance like wtf persona 5 on the goddamn 3ds its bullshit!

i can't believe that anybody takes pride in FFXIII.