Electronic Arts wants to sign up more Japanese developers
Electronic Arts announced last month that they had signed
Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami and
No More Heroes creator Suda51 to work on a new project (we already know the game but unfortunately we can't talk about it for the moment...) as part of the EA Partners program.
Electronic Arts has told the press that they should announce more collaboration with Japanese developers in the near future, according to David DeMartini, the head of the EA Partners program. '
What they intended to gain was hopefully insight and sensitivity toward what a North American or European audience is looking for with regards to story and some other elements. Obviously, with Resident Evil, Mikami had already bridged the gap to selling multi-million-selling games. Suda, on the other hand, certainly has a reputation for creating incredibly creative product, but sometimes the product is very much appreciated by the game critics but not as appreciated by millions and millions of people. He was looking for a breakout hit into the multiple millions of units kind of thing. [...] Hopefully this will serve as a springboard to a successful formula that we can apply to some of the other great Japanese designers. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to guess who might be on the board or who might not be on the board with regards to great organizations that are out there that don't currently have relationships with EA... EA looks at the top 20 developers in the world and we try to sign anything those guys are working on.' DeMartini said.
(Source : 1up / MTV Multiplayer)
posted the 09/08/2008 at 12:09 PM by
Antoine Morcos
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Mais enfait si vous pouvez pas nous le dire, alors ne dites même pas que vous avez des infos. ça fait juste languir bêtement les membres. Enfin moi je dis ça je dis rien...
