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.
