Kojima ‘not sure’ if Japan can compete in current industry
Lewis Denby January 3, 2012 - 2:45 pmMetal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima says he is unsure of how well Japan can compete with the rest of the globe in today’s highly pressured games industry.
Hideo Kojima is one of the Japanese games industry’s most prominent and revered figures, the Metal Gear Solid series ranked among the most popular in the world. But in today’s highly pressured games industry, can its Japanese branch still compete? Kojima is unsure.
He said that the world in which the original Metal Gear Solid operated was “very different to today’s games. Now there’s a lot of pressure – back then it was very free.”
In a huge feature in Official PlayStation Magazine, the legendary designed added: “It’s much more competitive now: if you look at triple-A titles on a worldwide scale there’s maybe only ten really big games that can get gamers’ attention, and I’m not sure how Japan can compete on that level.”
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Comments (3)
Again, more comments taken out of context. He wasnt only just referring to japan.
He was referring to the entire industry where basically only 20 percent of games make profit and its extremely hard to do anything that isnt a sequel of an established brand to even try and hit that 20 percent
This isnt a japan vs west thing.
This is a japan vs west vs profit vs cost thing
I am only stating this before the trolls comes out and the real message of what he was saying becomes lost
The phrase “especially in his homeland” was expressly there, to be honest, but yes, it is an issue that affects the whole industry too.
He said especially in his homeland because that is what he speaks from.
When thq, bioware, ect say the same exact thing it doesnt get this twisted.
Bioware is on record saying originality is dead, risk is dead, and in order to make money you need to do a sequel of your biggest series. Over and over