Atsushi Inaba on console considerations and the one winning platform |
Choices, choices, choices. All of us are bombarded with them on a daily basis. Even gaming industry folks like Atsushi Inaba are no different - his considerations involve which platforms and which target markets to develop games for.The interesting thing to note is that Mr. Inaba is interested in developing games for both the Nintendo Wii and the DS, despite whatever misgivings he may have had about Nintendo's motion-sensing machine. However, his staff at Platinum Games have been creating games for the Sony PS3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360, so he's not about to drop those next-gen consoles in favor of the Wii.
The crux of the problem now lies in the different markets that that the various platforms appeal to. As of now, Inaba is very much aware of the challenges a Japanese-based company is facing by trying to appeal to a Western market while working in an uncertain context. As Inaba himself put it:
To be honest, if we're going to consider the Western market, we should be thinking of creating a game on the 360; however, the 360 is not doing that good in Japan, and we're a Japanese studio, so do we want to ignore Japan? And let's think about the European market. Well, is 360 doing good there? No. So OK, what about PS3? Well, how well the PS3 is doing is still kind of vague, you don't know where to go with PS3. Now let's look at Wii. Wii has a huge market, but are there real game titles that are popular on Wii? And the answer is no, there are no real titles out there yet. So right now the consumer machines are in a very not-clear stage. So, to be honest, I wish that there was just one platform, one winning platform that we could concentrate on.
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Comments [refresh]
Ignore the 360 as America is the only strong-point for the system. Where as the PS3 has a close even market around the world and the Wii is the leading console in terms of sales, so far. By the way for you 360 fanboys out there, North America consists of 64% of their sales. Go to vgcharts if you don't believe me, or look at the NPD numbers if you can find them under google.
since I got the Japan game for wii and the US release for 360. PS3 is gonna be big blah blah blah... but hey majority of titles on PS3 already available for 360. The PS3 exclusive.. errr I could care less (to be fair the same applies to 360 exclusive so far except AC6, which is also the game not available for PS3) . Bottom line is I am not a fan boy of anything I ain't gonna spend another 500 for another system and then more on games plus need to keep my PS2 just in case.
I would agree that if you are dying to play some PS3 exclusive like KZ2 or MGS4 etc. The 360 is not going away soon same as PS3 is not gonna dorminate the market soon either... not even close.
Thats the only thing that I agree with you on, and thats that Sony will not dominate the market again for a third straight generation. But Sony is gaining steam as the new year approaches. Funny thing is, when you say that the majority of titles on the PS3 are available for the 360, same can be said for the 360.
When you speak of the PS2, that really isn't a factor in purchases, because most people will use the system to play PS3 games. I own the 20gb version and I haven't played a PS2 game since mid last year. Also, the 80gb version is being dropped in favor of the 40gb version, even though they are going to be releasing a newer model.
Sony even stated that the 40gb version is selling better, how much better is unknown.
Sorry, what I meant was new year in terms of march to march. The first quarter starts in march.