The Guardian: "A country that once made up 50% of the global video game market is in the doldrums, but are there reasons to be cheerful?"
New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.
It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
I hate articles like this. As far as I'm concerned the western side of gaming needs to crash.
Japanese developers and publishers have been making a lot of stupid mistakes such as locking future Valkyria Chronicles to just the PSP, keeping great games within their walls unless protest groups come knocking on their door (Gundam Battle Operation, Operation Rainfall), westernization and poor money management in general (Square Enix)......
The truth is western devs did gr8 jumps in visuals the past years western FPS games have always the most crazy visuals, the most impressive Japanese game we saw at E3 graphic-wise was MGS V here an example http://www.vgblogger.com/wp... but even this game can't reach the level of realism BF4 is going to have I mean just look at that http://www.containsmoderate... that's a real human I'm looking there I can't imagine something better in the future realism level is over 9000 I really think that this image is a photo of a real human being, anyway I never was a graphic-whore gamer my favorite kind of games is JRPGs after all I never asked till now or going to ask in the future from a JRPG to have that kind of visuals, still I must admit that western devs > japanese devs when we talk about graphic quality on their games.
One of the reason of decline I think is how the japanese is also into mobile gaming and tablets which I think is not cool. Would you rather want developers and publishers create mobile games and no more hardcore games? The japanese audience should know better to support the hardcore market. But I know its not yet that worst since 3DS although a mobile gaming device but atleast it is still a hardcore system just like vita is selling well in japan.