No he doesn't. I mean, he perceives the problem, but his solution is to stifle creativity at best and simply throw his arms up and conclude that Eastern games are for Eastern players and Western games for Western players at worst.
He doesn't get shit.
This is the issue.
Read the article, and how he identifies the problem.
Capcom developer says TGS showed "everyone's making awful games,"
Oh that's great they are self aware: oh wait, there's more to the sentence?
Lost Planet 2 was "too Japanese" to appeal in the West.
They want to Westernize. Westernization isn't the problem. Well, it is with with being able to be financially successful, but not necessarily for great games.
When we talk about every other artistic medium, art, novels, music, television, hell comic books, we can respect that they each craft it differently to respect their culture. But not with videogames. If it's videogames we can't have that.
This is them solving the problem
"But now, compared to the others from capturing the Western market we are not doing really well, so we gotta change, you know, our scheme or style, which means the producer has gotta be much more on the PR side and the management side, rather than just in creating, creating, creating."
Japanese love Japanese games just fine. They kind of like Western games, but they're fond of their own style. Too bad that videogames cost so much to make that they can't keep up.
Only Nintedo Wii shit seems to be making an impact. This is the signal we are sending. Not that we want great old school rpgs, or more character development. No, we want huge grand scale FPS, and more wii sports.
This revelation that the company heads are having isn't going to save their industry, it's going to make it worse.
