Hideo Kojima, Japanese videogame mastermind and father of Metal Gear Solid, sees an imbalance between Western and Eastern game developers. In his opinion Western games have taken over the first place in terms of evolvement and taking steps forward:
"If you honestly compare Japanese games with Western ones, Japan has lost," Kojima frankly said during a discussion at the Tokyo Game Show last week (Famitsu, via Kotaku). During the talk, Kojima compared the western games industry to Hollywood -- they bring the world's best creators together and give them huge budgets for their projects. He went on to call the current disparity "dangerous," particularly when it comes to how far western technological development has come over the last few years.
Perhaps the man is right. Most of the games I play these days are western. Looking back ten years, the situation has turned 180 degrees.
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