
Maybe half or more than half of those players may have bought hardware just to play that game and no other games. "OK, there is a big FPS franchise in the West, the biggest one from somewhere," he said.

"I look around Tokyo Games Show, and everyone's making awful games," Inafune, who no longer works for Capcom, said.įujii is also downbeat, and pointed to Call of Duty players as evidence of his claim. Mega Man main man Keiji Inafune followed up his infamous 2009 "Japan is dead" comment by saying last year that Japan was " at least five years behind" the West. They have no interest in Japanese games." This is my personal guess, but many Western gamers don't play Japanese games anymore or maybe they never played Japanese games. It's a totally different business here compared to five years ago.


"It's hard," Konami's Tak Fujii, famous for his bizarre E3 2010 on-stage presentation, told Siliconera. The Konami producer of N3: Ninety-Nine Nights II has had his say on supposed decline of the Japanese video game industry.
