The fact that its March for ps3 though is a pain. Still a good long wait for me as my pc wouldnt be powerful enough to run it.

I dont think they'll fully achieve globalisation based solely on the fact that its very hard to please everyone from all walks of life with EVERY game they release. They'll by no means fail and go bust as they'll always appeal to a good solid fan market globally, but its a big jump for them to aim for something thats very hard to achieve with trying to please everyone. .

Actually itlooks exactly the same, just in Hi-def.

And yes im a FF11 player so i can actually compare the game.

Simply put Wada is wrong.

When they try to make games for other people they fail. It's that simple. A good example is Dirge of Cerberus. The concept behind the game was good(learn about Vincent's background) However to try and appeal to the west they made a shooter and for that reason it failed. They didn't WANT to make a shooter they did it to appeal to another culture and it failed. Now on the flip side if you look at something like Vanquish which is also a Japanese shooter the difference is clear. Mikami WANTS to make a shooter and thus it looks to be turning into a great game.

They need to make what Japan wants at a very high quality and if it's really good people around the word will play it regardless of where they live. They don't need to change stuff or design stuff for the western market(as they did with Nier) This was the case in the old days of gaming and the only reason it changed is because western devs started to get better and the eastern devs lost confidence for some reason.

We don't need them to stop making the games they have always made. There is nothing other place to get those games. No western Dev is gonna make a game like Final Fantasy, Persona, Tales, Okami, ICO, The Last Guardian, Valkyria Chronicles and the list goes on and on.

They need to focus on Japan and if the game is good and it works then people will buy it regardless of their culture.

Well said.

So true : D

I was just going to say this, their biggest and top rated game here is TLOU2 for PC….it’s embarrassing.

Even Ubisoft and EA are ahead

Kind of surprised Nintendo is pretty low aswell, their biggest game is also a rerelease with the Switch 2 version of TotK.

@christopher:” Take note, Sony, you're falling behind by a lot.”
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Why single out Sony? Microsoft didn’t do any better than the year before 5th same as Sony 9th and they have acquired activision and other mayor titles that have boosted their score massively from a 9th and Sony a 4th the year before the acquisitions.
Sony does need to do better without a doubt and I do hope they do take note but not the note of buying publishers is the way to succeed.

Big part of that has been the live service push resulting in cancellation or flop after flop but when they put out the games their fans want we get amazing stuff like astro bot

Leadership really screwed the pooch trend chasing

Square doesn't help that it fear mongers itself with ridiculous 'goals' that they can't reach and then they proclaim failure if they don't reach it. They're quite freaking profitable and people act like they're dying.

to be very fair

being number one on these things does not indicate how "well" their games do selling wise.

Or, alternatively, don't cut Switch and Steam out of your biggest releases day one.

If your response to a 112 page presentation from a profit-maximizing investment fund about the need for corporate restructuring (i.e. layoffs), integrating non-gaming (i.e. sell merch or build a theme park) and other corporate initiatives, is that it's about "go woke, go broke", then it's because you've lost the ability to think in any terms. Awful way to live your life. Private equity is destroying the games industry while you obsess that Square made a cringe game everyone thinks is cringe in 2023. Time to move on.