First, I'd like to apologize to those waiting for the next video. I'm very sorry. I haven't been working on the project. Some of it due to the changes in my personal life. But mostly due to just plain laziness. I do intend on continuing the project so it will be done sometime. I just can't promise a date.
That aside, there has been a lot of things happening in the gaming world that I'd like to talk about. Some good things and some not-so-good.
The biggest thing personally is the fact that a lot of the large Japanese videogame companies are starting to loose their respect from hardcore players. It's sad to see Konami, Capcom, and even Nintendo making some very strange/stupid decisions.
The biggest being Konami pretty much withdrawing from the console market. They haven't really admitted it but it's clear they're moving toward a mobile market and seem to pretty much forget about the console market all together. I understand that Japan has a large mobile market and the console is not very popular, but I feel North America and even Europe is still a very console oriented market. I feel like Konami just doesn't care about the market outside of Japan with their recent decision. The whole Hideo Kojima scandal makes it even worse. The way they handled it was really horrible and it almost seemed like they were telling players they didn't have any respect for our community. At least Kojima will hopefully be able to move on to make even more exciting games.
But not all is lost. At least Square-Enix seems to be doing very well judging from what they have planned for the future. I know a huge number of JRPG fans are excited to see a 'real' Final Fantasy 7 remake in the works and they seem to genuinely want to create games that appeal to fans of their games. The recent Final Fantasy 15 demo is a good example. Of course, listening to fans isn't necessarily a good thing but at least they appear to respect players. They also seem to realize that there are a lot of JRPG fans around the world so it's great to see that they have created a studio dedicated to making new JRPGs. I do hope it's the second coming of the golden age of JRPGs.
The most intriguing thing is to see crowd funding as the new hottest thing now with Keiji Inafune, Koga Igarashi and Yu Suzuki all Kickstarting some nostalgic but new exciting projects. I'd have to say that I'm cautiously optimistic about these new projects and do hope they meet expectations.
Saturday 11 July 2015
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Nintendo, why you make horrible decisions!?
I know it's late, but happy new year. Hopefully this year will be better than the last.
I've yet to record the next stage in the project but hopefully will have some time this weekend to do that and start working on the translation for the stage prologue.
This year has started out with a bang for Nintendo fans with them announcing some big name titles for the 3DS (like Majora's Mask) and the New 3DS finally heading over to other regions of the world. However, it's not all great news.
The New 3DS comes in two sizes in Japan. The normal and XL (LL in Japan) size. For unknown reasons, Europe will get both but North America will not be getting the normal size.
This is extremely baffling to me. I could understand it a little if they had decided that everyone outside of Japan didn't need the smaller 3DS, but it ONLY applies to the North American market? There's no explanation as to why this was necessary.
That is when I saw this article from Kotaku:
http://kotaku.com/one-reason-nintendo-has-such-a-hard-time-with-new-ideas-1680988301
If you've read it, you'll kinda get a good idea of how the decision making process works in Nintendo. I believe this isn't just a Nintendo problem but a problem with most large and old Japanese companies.
The funniest thing about all this is that I had posted the same link on Mii-verse stating my displeasure of seeing Nintendo make bad decisions. Soon after I posted it, the post was immediately deleted by the administrator stating I violated the Miiverse code of conduct:
I'm not exactly sure what part I violated but I couldn't help but laugh at the situation. I hold no grudge against Nintendo for it and for all I know, maybe I did violate something on the Nintendo Network Agreement. But I can't help but feel like they admit they are making bad decisions by deleting my post.
As I said before, I believe other Japanese companies face the same issue. Sega's Phantasy Star Online 2 on Vita is a good example. You have to wonder if someone higher had initially said yes and then backed out half way through the development. The Asian market was even given a English version on PC so it makes it all the more suspicious. Even if they scrapped the Vita version it should of been easy to bring out the PC version.
Then there's Megaman series from Capcom. At least we have Mighty No.9 for that.
And how about Bandai/Namco with the Super Robot Wars. They might not be able to bring Z or Alpha due to copyright issues, but Original Generations shouldn't be a problem. Even the Masoukishin series would work.
Maybe this year, things will change and we'll finally see some Super Robot War games in English. Until then, I'll just have to keep what I'm doing.
I've yet to record the next stage in the project but hopefully will have some time this weekend to do that and start working on the translation for the stage prologue.
This year has started out with a bang for Nintendo fans with them announcing some big name titles for the 3DS (like Majora's Mask) and the New 3DS finally heading over to other regions of the world. However, it's not all great news.
The New 3DS comes in two sizes in Japan. The normal and XL (LL in Japan) size. For unknown reasons, Europe will get both but North America will not be getting the normal size.
This is extremely baffling to me. I could understand it a little if they had decided that everyone outside of Japan didn't need the smaller 3DS, but it ONLY applies to the North American market? There's no explanation as to why this was necessary.
That is when I saw this article from Kotaku:
http://kotaku.com/one-reason-nintendo-has-such-a-hard-time-with-new-ideas-1680988301
If you've read it, you'll kinda get a good idea of how the decision making process works in Nintendo. I believe this isn't just a Nintendo problem but a problem with most large and old Japanese companies.
The funniest thing about all this is that I had posted the same link on Mii-verse stating my displeasure of seeing Nintendo make bad decisions. Soon after I posted it, the post was immediately deleted by the administrator stating I violated the Miiverse code of conduct:
I'm not exactly sure what part I violated but I couldn't help but laugh at the situation. I hold no grudge against Nintendo for it and for all I know, maybe I did violate something on the Nintendo Network Agreement. But I can't help but feel like they admit they are making bad decisions by deleting my post.
As I said before, I believe other Japanese companies face the same issue. Sega's Phantasy Star Online 2 on Vita is a good example. You have to wonder if someone higher had initially said yes and then backed out half way through the development. The Asian market was even given a English version on PC so it makes it all the more suspicious. Even if they scrapped the Vita version it should of been easy to bring out the PC version.
Then there's Megaman series from Capcom. At least we have Mighty No.9 for that.
And how about Bandai/Namco with the Super Robot Wars. They might not be able to bring Z or Alpha due to copyright issues, but Original Generations shouldn't be a problem. Even the Masoukishin series would work.
Maybe this year, things will change and we'll finally see some Super Robot War games in English. Until then, I'll just have to keep what I'm doing.
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