Square Enix says Japanese studios shouldn’t “imitate Western games”

Square Enix‘s president, Yosuke Matsuda, has said that Japanese developers shouldn’t attempt to make video games for the west by way of emulating how the west make video games.

In a brand new interview with Yahoo Japan (with translations by VGC, and Exputer by way of DeepL), Yosuke Matsuda acknowledged that Japanese growth studios shouldn’t attempt to recreate western video games regardless of Square Enix’s international success.

“Nowadays, the games market is globalised,” Matsuda stated. “The home market was once huge, however now it’s behind China and the US. If you aren’t recognised globally, you aren’t in enterprise.

“But interestingly, if Japanese developers try to imitate Western games, they cannot make good ones. The designs of the monsters, and the visual and audio effects, are all still somewhat Japanese. And players around the world know that this is what makes Japanese games good.”

Square Enix employs its western studios to develop video games such because the Life Is Strange sequence, Tomb Raider, and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, whereas its Japanese studios are chargeable for the video games thought-about JRPGs (Japanese role-playing video games) similar to Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Final Fantasy 14, NieR: Automata, Octopath Traveller, and extra.

This break up between Square Enix’s developer base means that Matsuda’s quotes are referring to the studio’s strictly Japanese video games, and the way these shouldn’t try to attraction to additional audiences by westernising themselves.

“I believe that playing is a sign that one is a person,” Matsuda continued. “As it’s stated that persons are creatures of play – homo Ludens – and with out leisure, I imagine the thoughts would die.

In different information, Naoki Yoshida, director and producer of Final Fantasy 14, has supplied clarification on the game’s ongoing housing lottery bug.

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