It seems that many Japanese developers have lamented their country's position in the industry for the past several months, and Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi is no different. The Capcom man has recently shared fears of the West's impact in Japan, admitting that he now "worried."
"I'm worried about the movements of Western developers," confesses Takeuchi. "Japan is now their target - it's the last big marketplace. The truth is that Western studios are making great games, and they're going to continue to do so next year too."
Jun's main fear is that Japanese development won't catch up, claiming that: "It's not good if Japanese developers are making games that can't be enjoyed by Japanese people."
It seems that the so-called decline of Japanese game development is going to become an even hotter topic as the weeks progress, as more and more studios look towards the West. There's no denying that some of the most inventive and ambitious games -- titles like Portal, Braid and LittleBigPlanet -- have come from the West while many Japanese games have stuck to conventions, sometimes to their detriment.
Capcom, however, has nothing to worry about. I don't feel that any other publisher so consistently melds East and West together. RE5 will sell bucketloads, so I don't think Takeuchi needs to sell his house just yet.
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10:30 AM on 01.02.2009
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Notice how many idiots missed the point that it's not about the game's African setting.
Zombies? Check.
Racially insensitive characters? Check.
Black people? Check.
White people with guns shooting black zombies? Check.
See, they'll sell tons of this game. It's a KKK's wet dream.
It's moderated by a Shark. Sharks have no concept of race.
i didn't mean to sound like a dick if i did.
Just because a publisher is innovative doesn't exactly make it good. Take Mirrors Edge or even Fracture, they had really different things that many other games have never tried before but it wasn't exactly well done. So I think that a company that does the tried-but-true approach without being redundant then it deserves more sales (since you talk about money) than the shitty innovative game. And I consider Western developers much more risky when it comes to innovation take Valve, Jonathan Blow, Dice and Media Molecule are all Western and with the exception of Valve they all took a huge plunge in the sake of innovation, two not doing so well. I'm not saying Japanese developers don't innovate but I think that their way of innovation involve a bit less risk than certain Western developers.
It is QUITE possible that Jim receives news from a source other than psextreme.com. In fact, it's a rather large possibility.
And... yes. Yes you did sound a little bit like a dick.
Yes, that's what we really need - The Japanese to start making more generic brown shooters like they have tried with MGS4 and Resident Evil 4/5.
Brofists for all!
it doesn't sound the developer was worried about his game so much as japanese game development in general.
i don't even understand the 'joke' in the photo. i'd say...fail.
it doesn't sound the developer was worried about his game so much as japanese game development in general.
i don't even understand the 'joke' in the photo. i'd say...fail.
it doesn't sound the developer was worried about his game so much as japanese game development in general.
i don't even understand the 'joke' in the photo. i'd say...fail.
Thanks for the laugh destructoid
Capcom shouldn't be worried. Like others have already said, they blend Eastern and Western game development better than any other Japanese company and they have a bitchin '09 lineup.
What the fuck has Destructoid become? This race shit is getting old.
Oh wait...
Burnout was a Klan game?
Also, as a black man I will agree that black on black crime will be very fulfilling in RE5 but its the few white "zombies" that will be receiving special attention. ::Cocks Shotty::
...thats a joke.
Sounds like something was lost in translation or something.