Platinum Games - East/West development are quite similar, both have some companies that fail

“It’s not like Platinum Games is trying to present a role model to the Japanese gaming industry and my personal opinion is that it’s not very meaningful to segment the industry into Japanese and American. Wherever you go there are two kinds of game developers. One is good developers who have brilliant ideas and passion and the means and the resources to make their ideas into games. The other is bad studios who are not as good at what they do and those studios will be naturally selected to fail. As you pointed out there’s been a lot of talk about the Japanese gaming industry and some of what’s been said might be true but all there really is are some publishers in Japan are not doing so great.” - Atsushi Inaba

I guess more people see Japan as playing host to more of the lower-quality game devs in today’s business. I don’t know that I agree with that, as there are plenty of Western-developed games that don’t warrant a second look.

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