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Inafune: Capcom Has Trouble Collaborating with Western Developers

Posted on Wednesday, September 21 @ 11:48:17 Eastern by


Dark Void and Bionic Commando, both Capcom collaborations with Western developers, did not fare well in any territory, in part due to infighting says ex-Capcom developer Keiji Inafune via Joystiq:

[It's] very, very simple: The publisher was Japanese and the developer was foreign. Even inside Japan, when you work in two different companies, they always blame each other for any small mistakes, so that's pretty much what happened in those two games—blaming each other.

When I was making Dead Rising, I told my staff, 'Don't ever blame the other guys. Do your best, and just keep doing your work'... [now] it's getting back like before—blaming each other.

I'm kind of hoping that someone will come forth and say, 'Okay, I'm gonna take over from here.'

It's rare for a Japanese developer, even an ex-developer to be so candid and forthcoming on his opinions on his prior employer. Maybe it comes from a little bitterness, but he's got a Mega-sized point.

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Related Games:   Bionic Commando, Dark Void
Tags:   Capcom, Keiji Inafune


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  • Longo_2_guns
    Longo_2_guns - Joined: Jun 30, 2003
    I really like Inafune. I hope he does well in whatever he does next.
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    Posted: Sep 21st, 2011 at 11:52 am
  • Vicsander
    Vicsander - Joined: Sep 21, 2011
    I made a account because this specifically pissed me the **** off. My sister's husband who was the environmental artist of Dark Void told me personally that they created a Multiplayer for DV. They had it finished and a few bug problems (biggest one was the main menu froze) when they told capcom they were almost finished the pushed the date 3 weeks early for release and said to get rid of the multiplayer. In essence either capcom is ****ing over them selves or they want to **** over other DeV's so they feel better about them selves they are ****ing up some where, and now like we're expriencing with Nintendo with diminished returns of the whole 3-DS thing and the constant remake (even lazy reforge of super marior 64, starfox 64 and zelda occurina of time) people are gonna get tired of it and just stop, but for cap com its resident evil and street fighter. Seriously they need to come up with more originality, well all companies need to including taking a plung into the unknown.
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    Posted: Sep 21st, 2011 at 12:05 pm
  • Vicsander
    Vicsander - Joined: Sep 21, 2011
    If anyone is wondering my brother in law is working on Quantum Conundrum. Being able to expand his creativity for a while, his name is sallady in the article btw.
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    Posted: Sep 21st, 2011 at 12:07 pm

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