Cuningas de Häme;228065288 said:
This.
Nintendo needs to embrace it Japanese heritage. They need to be proud of what they are and where they are from. Everything being a US centric is a tad tiring, to be honest.
If the Switch really catches on, I hope that Japanese devs will shower it with games. And publishing them in the West too, subs are a lot cheaper to do than dubs (one would think at least) so shouldn't be too hard?
I hope that we start getting more and more subs for Japanese dubs, it is annoying to get English dubs for everything. I am not an English speaking person so I am used to read subs in about everything, it is not hard. And it helps to develop your reading skills too!
I certainly never said it should be a US thing. I said a non-Japanese thing. That's their biggest market.
I've said it before but the place Nintendo actually has an opportunity to capture third party support is Japan so it absolutely makes sense to lean into that. If they have managed to get a lot of this party support it probably makes sense to do it in Japan and show as many as those games as possible.
Then it will be a boring console if it's just "Japanese" games, whatever that means.
His predictions for the conference:
Imagine that, in Japanese.
Joke aside, the Japanese 3DS reveal trailer showing all upcoming games was easily the best we had. The "Wii want to play ad" showing the 2 Japanese guys was super effective portraying a foreign/new piece of technology. Japanese 3rd party support for the system will most likely be huge. And as others said, it's their heritage. No offense to NOA or NOE, but they are distributors. Nintendo is Japan.
All they said was "we would like to play".....IN ENGLISH! Imagine them saying that, in Japanese with bad overdubbing. Also, it was an ad, not an E3 style console reveal.
Nintendo comes from Japan but they sell worldwide. With Wii U they started to double down on Japanese partnerships and gave up on the west. Remember how that ended up?
And as I said, do a Japanese conference if you must, but do a really cool, exciting one in English too without a bunch of people bumbling with a language they can't speak. It ruins the flow.