Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has expressed concern over the influx of first-person-shooter games that Western audiences seem to enjoy so much.
“Currently, in the western countries especially, war-themed gun-shooting games, which are not well-received in Japan, are very popular,” he said. “It is a reality that some of these games sell 10 million units per year in those markets, and this is one valid type of video game genre. I would personally feel sad if all video games became something like that, but on the other hand, I do not think such games should disappear.”
Nintendo itself could help give Western audiences more than FPS titles to choose from but … it can’t be arsed to localize ’em. Not our fault that all we get are shooters, Iwata!
