Eurogamer sat down with Keiji Inafune, creator of Rock Mega Man, Onimusha, and the upcoming Lost Planet for 360. He spoke at length about the arctic 3rd person action game. He also had some interesting things to say about game development in general. Speaking on developing games for a worldwide market, he had this to say:
“The way that most Japanese developers used to work was of course that you’d focus on what you know. So we’d always focus on Japanese players. But we’re adapting to the international market, and trying to make games thinking of gamers overall – we’re not looking at it in terms of national groups any more, because we can’t afford to. Right now I’d say Asia has different tastes to the rest of the world, so there’s this gap that’s making it tough for us, but there are games that everybody likes and we need to start focusing on that as an industry.”
Check out Eurogamer for the full interview.