Gamekyo : Game Republic's canceled Xbox 360 online game

Game Republic's canceled Xbox 360 online game

1up has a nice interview of Game Republic President Yoshiki Okamoto who talks about a canceled Xbox 360 online game. 'In the beginning, Microsoft was funding it, so we developed it up to a point and showed it to them. They said they didn't really like it that much. After that, we continued to develop the game with our own money for nine more months, thinking that they'd come around, but when we showed it to Microsoft again, they said they didn't need titles for the Japanese market any more. That's why the game ultimately got canceled.' explains Yoshiki Okamoto. You can read the full interview of Yoshiki Okamoto here.

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posted the 09/11/2008 at 01:46 PM by Antoine Morcos

comments (11)

kpok posted the 09/11/2008 at 02:14 PM

le sourire de la mort

kokoriko posted the 09/11/2008 at 02:14 PM

Le pauvre

Pourquoi ne pas chercher de l'argent chez Sony ensuite ?

kokoriko posted the 09/11/2008 at 02:23 PM

Je vois, c'était un projet MS à la base ----------> "Yoshiki Okamoto: Since Microsoft had funded the project in the beginning, we didn't want to just give up on it. We felt pretty confident that we could develop it into something that Microsoft would want to release, and that's why we kept working on it. But the project was a failure, I guess, and for a company just starting out, it was a huge loss. I know now that this was a major mistake for us and a bad move for our company early on."

kokoriko posted the 09/11/2008 at 02:25 PM

----------> "Yoshiki Okamoto: Yeah, I think Microsoft probably gave up on the Japanese market. But looking at it from a business standpoint, I don't necessarily disagree with that decision. The Japanese market is only 15 percent of the videogame market nowadays, and Microsoft isn't strong within that 15 percent. It doesn't really make sense for them to focus on that one small market; it makes more sense to focus on titles with a worldwide appeal. I would have been much happier if they had approached me in the beginning asking for a title with worldwide appeal rather than one for the Japanese market specifically."

edgex posted the 09/11/2008 at 02:33 PM

bah pour microsoft faut du sang a gogo, des putes et scénario qui tiennent sur une feuille de pq pour les interessés, sinon ca devient trop compliqué pour les possesseurs de 360

hayatevibritania posted the 09/11/2008 at 02:45 PM

Edge X : tu dis pas un peu beaucoup n'importe quoi là Oo

neclord83 posted the 09/11/2008 at 02:59 PM

Si le jeu etait aussi bon que genji.
C'est un peu normal que micro leur dit non.

tyler33 posted the 09/11/2008 at 03:04 PM

un mmo est une entreprise enorme surtout sur console

laolyth posted the 09/11/2008 at 03:11 PM

bah apparement le jeu avais une identité trop asiatique et du coup ca aurai p-e pas pu fonctionner en europe/usa

etchi posted the 09/11/2008 at 03:56 PM

Les console sont pas adapté au mmo, pas assez de bouton pour les racourcis et pis va écrire avec ta manette...t'abandonne au bout de te 3ème phrase tellement c chiant, en plus il faut louer des serveur, inventé des event, des quètes constamment, ouais comme il dis c un boulot enorme un mmo, et tout les studio ne s'appel pas Blizzard ou NC Soft malheureusment ....

raiko posted the 09/11/2008 at 05:54 PM

Bon ben au moins on sait que l'un des 5 projets est annulé. Enfin s'il s'agissait bien de l'un d'eux. Sakagushi on a vu, Okamoto, c'est pit être annulé, Mizugushi on a pas encore vu, le mec de Tri Ace c'était Infinite Undiscovery, et le 5eme je ne sais plus qui c'était !!