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Square Enix prez suggests Japan gaming alliance to compete with West |
Listed in: PS3, Wii, PSP, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS Tags: Japan, Square Enix, Tecmo, Yoichi Wada
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Lately, several gaming bigwigs in Japan have shown growing concern that the West is outstripping development from their end.Square Enix to the rescue! Squeenix prez Yoichi Wada suggested at TGS 2008 that to remain competitive against Western companies, gaming companies in Japan should consider forming an alliance:
We should consider some sort of 'Japan Alliance'. Individuality is important. It's not forcing everything into a single corporate brand. The ideal is a holding company under which several companies and brands can hang.
Perhaps studios in Japan should seriously consider this idea, seeing as the US-based ESA has gone down the dumps lately, what with E3's more-than-lacking performance this year. If Japanese studios can one-up ESA, that will surely drive the point home that they're serious about being competitive.
Opinions from bigwigs:
- Ryan Payton: Japan's no longer the center of video game development
- Sony's Yoshida agrees: Japan lagging in video game technology race
Via Kotaku
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He says after porting FF13 on X360 and doing infinite undiscovery exclusively on x360 and giving a timed exclusivity to the last remnant on x360, and even after saying star ocean 4 is exclusive to xbox360...
"Individuality is important. It's not forcing everything into a single corporate brand. The ideal is a holding company under which several companies and brands can hang."
Seems like what EA could say... BEFORE cancelling some games that were creative and forcing their slaves(the "companies and brand [that] hang") to do games that'll make money...
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Don't try and accommodate for the idiot 'fps Americans'
If they tried to change what they do so well(as in acquiring other companies with different approaches to gaming being the change), they will only crash and burn
ahh maybe little off topic, but oh well, can link to it sort of heh.
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This means that the US consumer won't be assraped when it comes to the amount of games that comes out, because as we all know, Japan gets a ton of games that we haven't and won't ever see here(and most likely want to,) but that doesn't stop from us possibly receiving more than we may have before.
Because Japan corporations end up making sure these games come to Japan. You'll see most every US developed game over there. But the other way around? No. Certain companies do try to push gaming over here alot more than the others and give us some variety.
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