Yasuhiro Wada, the creator of Harvest Moon, is chief creative officer of Marvelous, the Japanese publisher behind No More Heroes, Little Kings Story and Muramasa: The Demon Blade. Edge met with him to talk about his views on the current state of Japanese game development, which he believes is failing to provide enough variety and fresh ideas and is resulting in a contracting games market in the country. But his views aren't taken very well by Japanese gamers.
Here, he speaks frankly about why, along with how the 360 has failed to take off in Japan and why Marvelous' games review well but don't do so well at the cash till.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
Can you kindly resign your postion and give it to Nomura?
Yea Yea platform don't effect sales. What is he smoking I want some.
Seriously though read this interview he has some points but I think the problem is the industry is finding it hard to figure out what gamers want university. Some many things that where a part of gaming are now look down on even though it built gaming to the point the it currently is.
It's like telling a rock band that they can not have any rifts because that is old school. We don't like that because it's old we want more violin so we can feel like adults. What is funny that is how I feel about gaming music these days also... they replaced it all with movie background music.
Any way I think Wada should look back at the game play he liked before and figure out why he liked it back in the day.