Namco Bandai to focus on Japan
Namco Bandai have reported that half of its software was unprofitable last year and the way forward seems to be to focus more on Japanese developed titles. President Shukuo Ishikawa said the following in an interview:
"We found the quality and development speed of titles made for us by the overseas studios to be lacking. Foreign studios can still propose and develop games, but our Japanese staff will control the process more closely."
Namco Bandai have released three major games developed by Western studios in 2010: Volatile Games' Dead to Rights: Retribution, internally developed Splatterhouse and Ninja Theory's Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. Let's hope they recognise what they did wrong with the two first ones and what they did right with Enslaved moving forward.
