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Okamoto Warns Of Atari Caliber DS Crash

Game Republic's Yoshiki Okamoto, a twenty year industry vet whose credits include Street Fighter II, Resident Evil and, more recently, Folklore, tells Gamasutra he fears the Japanese game industry may be in danger of suffering the same fate that befell Atari in the early '80s. If you're too young to remember, a glut of software for the Atari 2600 and its peers, the majority of which we'll be nice enough to describe as liquid feces written in assembler, flooded the market, resulting in a industry crushing crash.

Today's problem? A glut of software—particularly "brain" games—for the Nintendo DS published by inexperienced companies looking to make a quick buck.

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5:40 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Michael McWhertor
3,874 views, 70 comments

Latest by strideo: I do have to say that I was pretty frustrated when I went to a Best Buy and had to more »

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Okamoto Talks Genji, Losing The Rumble

Game Republic honcho, Street Fighter creator and general wild-man Yoshiki Okamoto talks about his team's work on Genji: Days of the Blade. He tells game site Kikizo that work on the title had begun before Sony had even announced the PS3 specs. The title was originally slotted as a PS2 title. What about that rumble-for-motion-sensing swicheroo? Okamoto says: More »

12:22 AM on Wed Jan 17 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
73 views, 9 comments

Latest by TheForgotenHero: [Insert generic Sony no rumble bash here] for MASSIVE DAMAGE followed by real-time weapon switch for a 3x attack. 1.No rumble 2.MASSIVE more »

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Street Fighter Creator Punching Out Another 360 Game

Street Fighter creator and former Capcom frontman Yoshiki Okamoto mentions he's working on another Xbox 360 game. Okamoto can't say anymore about it, because Microsoft's Steve Ballmer will eat a kitten if he does. The indie Japanese developer previously birthed Every Party for the 360. Expect some MSoft chest thumping at E3 regarding this yet-unannounced title. More »

9:21 AM on Tue Apr 25 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
436 views, 2 comments

Latest by giant_frying_pan: I'd rather they added SF Anniversary Collection to the backwards compatible list, so we can play Third Strike! It's good that more »