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INTEREST: Japan's Video Game Rankings, August 19-25

Even if it's just for 2 days of sales, 5k is a horrible opening week for The Wonderful 101.

Even if it's just for 2 days of sales, 5k is a horrible opening week for The Wonderful 101.

"For American gamers, games that sell and don’t sell tend to be a hot topic [as opposed to Japanese gamers]… I wonder why they care so much about sales that it makes them choose what to play? It may be because sales numbers are the most obvious way to evaluate a game, and reviews seem to be another…I think that rather than borrowing some numbers to judge the quality of a game, you should decide by yourself like Japanese games do. You gotta be you; there's only one in the world ." - Hideki Kamiya

Yep not like Kamyia has to fear having his studio close down because his games under perform. That's never happen before.

I doubt anyone decides what games to play based on sales.

But I think he was more talking about the fanboys who care about game sales and critic scores being a measure of a game Japanese side of the industry doesn't put as much stock into that stuff as the American side does it seems. Metacritic ain't much in the way of Japan.

I don't think Kamiya cares, since his money's not on the line. When this games craters, it's on Nintendo's hands. All Platinum needs to do is Announce Rising 2, and it's business as usual.

Confused It happens all the time here and I think you've done it yourself in a few topics.

People love using sales numbers as an e-peen waving contest on 'Haha my game sold more, that makes it better' or they use critic score to say how it's a better game or more revolutionary and deserving of praise..

People like Toriyama listened to criticisms mainly from the US(since FF-XIII's reception in Japan is a lot less cold) on FF-XIII and worked to make a game that was better than it, since Toriyama admitted he was making a game for both audiences.

The creators of Resident Evil 6 listened when people criticized their game and now they're working to make 7 better than 6, even though I personally liked 6. People bashed 6, because it was a shooter, even though the gameplay was good and the controls were decent.