Keiji Inafune: Japanese gaming industry is finished |
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"Personally when I looked around [at] all the different games at the TGS floor," Capcom's Ben Judd translated Inafune, "I said 'Man, Japan is over. We're done. Our game industry is finished.'" Perhaps realizing that his comment encompasses his own company, or perhaps it was all a set-up for this next comment, Inafune-san then uses Capcom's upcoming titles as "kick-ass" titles coming from Japan.
Big words, especially coming from such a prolific developer. But what do you guys think? Is the Mecca of gaming losing it's luster? Sound off below.
He likes Bungie:
Via Destructoid
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Comments [refresh]
We have two new Metal Gear games coming, and FF XIII is looking more impressive than I thought it would, so I doubt Japan's game industry is over.
are you kidding me? the best titles are still coming out of Japan. Think, Nintendo, Sony, Capcom, Konami, Namco, Square. All we seem to produce is GTA, the same damn madden since 2001, and shooters shooters shooters. Trust me, eliminate Japan, and the industry will crumble.
Just an old guy complaining about how things are not like what they used to be. Old people are always complaining about the present.
If you take away the japanese gaming market, then all we'll have left is a junk market. The US, sadly, just doesn't make the cut when it comes to variaty. I'm really sick of shooting games, other than CoD. If anything, throw away the US gaming market for now, and leave the the japanese market in.
they should make mega man for ps3(in 3d and not some 1980s bs remake) they need to bring back mega man for ps3 if they wanna remain in the"gaming industry" as they call it
Is there anyone else having the same issue?
Japan's gaming industry is finished? This is coming from the guy who works for the company that made Monster Hunter, the game that practically took Japan by storm?
lol. Keiji, you silly guy. Make me some more MegaMan, please
The best are from Japan? Been looking at my games collection and only a few of my games seem to be from Japan. Since buying my PS3 last December, the most fun games I've bought include LittleBigPlanet , Ratchet + Clank, Burnout Paradise, Uncharted, Street Fighter IV, Batman Arkham Asylum, Shatter, inFamous, Wipeout HD and I've preordered Uncharted 2 and only one of those games is japanese (SFIV). I lost interest in the majority of japanese gaming a long time ago. Japanese gamers seem to mostly love all that pokemon and rpg crap so their developers appear to focus on those and I can't stand those games. Out of the UK, US and Japan the Japanese certainly come a very distant bottom of my favorite game creating nations.
As far as I'm concerned the US (and UK) are the only ones making plenty of games worth actually playing. Japanese titles I actually find enjoyable are getting rarer and rarer.
Actually Mega Man 9 was one of the few japanese games recently I actually thought was decent. Really liked the NES feel of it all. Reminds me of when I actually used to like Japanese developers like Nintendo before they turned into crap.
They haven't made a single game this gen that really stroke greatness. DMC4 had great action but the game should have been called DMC:Backtrack. RE5 was fun but wow what an ending and don't make me mention the maze like rooms the size of an average living room.(literally adds minutes to the game) I'm not even going to mention the DLCs.
What he should have said is "Capcom is over."
Other than shooters, what games are supposedly good. Also, you can't say a game is worth playing, because all games, good or bad, are worth playing to an extent. Else it wouldn't be a game in the first place.
Another thing is, your average gamer has a genre that particularly enjoy playing. A few, like myself, enjoy a wide variaty or games. From puzzles, to sports, to RPGs, to shooters. A gamer who is genre based, doesn't provide the right feedback on a different genre game. They should stick to their own genre.
That being said, what kind of gamer are you, and what games do you recommend, outside of Japan?
basically to him right now....no gore/blood/and etc=crap.
That Lost Planet 2 demo had me sold. That *****'s gettin' bought.
If this isn't purely a marketing stunt (which I'm 99% sure it is) then Keiji is saying that he personally feels creativity in Japan is dead, not that the Japan market will actually die. I completely agree with him, I can't remember the last time I really enjoyed a Japanese game. Most US games are similar as well, but some of them at least try something new. Nothing new comes out of Japan anymore, all the games are the same nowadays.
I also love how everyone seems to love knocking the US for making "nothing but shooters" (which isn't even true at all) but it's fine for Japan to make the same RPGs over and over again, and churn out a nonstop barrage of stupid games like Cooking Mama and Pokemon which got old a decade ago.
Just because Mega Man is dead doesn't mean the whole Japanese industry is...if he lost the touch he had (the first 3 megamans only actually XD) not every one did and like Glenn said maybe he's looking at his compoay only cus the some big japanese games are coming, 2 new MGS, the new rumored SFIV and the one I'm most excited about....The Last Guardian...so Japan has lots of juice to give
The whole industry is dead one just have to look at "madden 2010" "Fifa 2010" "need for speed sh.it" ups sorry shift, they are all the same game that its predecesor was with a new number and a new box and that's it, the market is flooded with 2's and 3,s and clones and clones, guitar make me rich hero and rockbag of money are even OFFENSIVE to the mind of a true gamer, are really this even worth of being called games? the first one was fun but a thousand clones later is not and the price is even more offensive "60 bucks for a "beatles" game" that is exactly the same as the first one i mean im not learning to REALLY PLAY this songs its just a "game" that is already done with "new" songs the game "industry" is at it's worst EVER no wonder the economic ressesion is punching hard everybody, no good music no good movies and even worst games =(
Come on, look at it realistically... Though this has got to be a stunt, a LOT of our titles are basically remakes/ports/redoes/copy
you have the big thing i hear most people talking about, and see the most commercials... Rockband/Guitar hero, both of those games came out like 5+ years *too lazy to look up* After Taiko no Tatsujin which in terms of appeal Taiko has more *unless you want to pay endless ammounts for dlc to get new genera*
you look at some of the big games coming out...
Demons Souls *you might not think its big, i see as many news posts about that as games like rachet and clank* which is a Japanese game, made by the people who are bringing out the creative looking 3d dot game heroes on November *it might look like zelda... but the classics are classic for a reason =D*
Uncharted 2... Lets face it, its this gens Tomb Raider =\ *i really see very little difference...*
Modern Warfare 2... another shooter, though fun... just how much new content can you expect in a shooter? its either good or bad, the system wont make a ton of a difference... Many love CoD 4 Many love CoD 5... =\
God of War III... Looks like 1/2 with better graphics
Bayonetta... though it reminds me a lot of DMC, people still talk about it... another japanese title
Final Fantasy XIII... Ive heard more people want this game than anything else... which yet again is a japanese title
Hell i bought my ps3 to play Disgaea 3 *japanese* the fact i can play Cross Edge *japanese, not that great* and Trinity Universe *comes out the 1st in jp* is just a bonus... I think people often forget... we live in ___ country, so we moreso see our regions games, and think of it as thats that... but for every unoriginal japanese game, theres atleast 1 unoriginal/copy english game =\
guys who sead japan gaming industry is and why !!!!
we can say gaming industry is flooded by 3d party bad comercial companies who bring very bad games with big ad compaing and end in our hands to realise that was a scam , and the release race in western region , 5 years ago game take at less 5 3 to 4 years for release , now its 1 year , but japaness as known wont release a bad game or buged so they keep their hard work , and as you know any japanes game release is a event
- MGS
- Tekken
- Soul calibur
- GT
- FF
but dont forget
- COD 4
- GOW
- HALO
as you see games are splited to two Colture and genre orientation .
so the statement of japan industy is dead is a retarded statement
The part that I agree with him on is the fact when you compare most Japanese games to US/UK/CAN/FRANCE (Ubisoft from CAN and FRANCE), they're graphically inferior to their other country counterparts. By far the best looking game from Japan thus far in my opinion would have to be Final Fantasy XIII and Versus XIII, but I'll have to say it still doesn't look as good as Gears of War, Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, or Halo 3:ODST. Yes Heavenly Sword is a launch PS3 game, but the graphics on that seem better than FFXIII still (based on what I've seen thus far mind you). Yes the US seems to produce the same types of games, but you have to take into account that is the same in Japan. There's the same type of stuff all the time. Only a couple of Japanese games trickle out of Japan so it seems more diverse. It's the same way over there. They're really starting to like Western games because it's something different from their norm. I do feel that Japanese companies still have the most creativity with stories, but the rest of the world seems better at technically moving forward than Japan. Well that's my two cents on the matter, take of it as you see fit I guess.
Wow thats a pretty bold statement, however i disagree with it. Hes gotta understand that times are different demands are different, gaming not just for fun anymore, its a lifestyle. Once you understand that concept then you will reach your full potential as a game developer.
japanes game are not about GFX its the scene it self and the ambient , pls watch MGS peace walker and tel me the last you got that feel , youll easily merge in story and forget HD gfx , Good GFX is net rendering only but , the designer toush , HD gfx only give a dead game like :
- NEED FS prosteet
- SPLINTER double agent
- Rainbow six vegas
- ARMY of two
but when designers take time to paint the game like what they did in GOW so we get a piece art game but that need lot money and time .
Jap games, "tipically inferior"? Well, no. You have really big developers in the West, but you have WORLDWIDE KNOWN developers in Japan. Why is it easier to find japanese companies with offices in all three major business areas (JP, US, EU) but the other way around doesn't happen very often and non-japanese companies are pretty much local for the most part? Well, I guess the games they do really say something.
Also, the japanese are not generally "graphically inferior", as youguys are putting it. We have jap companies that really excell in graphics such as Tecmo, Square and lately Capcom. Namco is also usually outstanding in the graphics department, unless you're talking about some really obscure jap-only game that no one knows of. Sure, EA and Codemasters, for example, really surpass expectations when it comes to graphics, but it's not where the japanese are lacking either.
Just my honest opinion here, nothing else.