Japansese developers must focus on the Western market

[Jeremy]

Are Japanese developers too focused on Japan?

Hideo Kojima thinks so

[Memee]

If they really focus on the Western market they'd blow the competition out of the water. Already without them really focusing we still got great games like RE and Alone in the Dark (Shinji Mikami), Final Fantasy series (Hironobu Sakaguchi), The Legend of Zelda (Shigeru Miyamoto)

[MOnk]

If they really focus on the Western market they'd blow the competition out of the water. Already without them really focusing we still got great games like RE and Alone in the Dark (Shinji Mikami), Final Fantasy series (Hironobu Sakaguchi), The Legend of Zelda (Shigeru Miyamoto)

They've tried before and failed, so no blowing anything out of the water. I'm not really sure Japanese games are too focused on Japan since I feel good games will largely be universal, for me the problem is that many Japanese games tend to have antiquated gameplay mechanics.