Keiji Inafune is worried that you might think that Capcom doesnât want to work with Western game developers anymore, that the studio that made Mega Man, Street Fighter and Resident Evil would happily just back games made in Japan.
Well, technically we had heard that the company that backed the Western-developed original game Dark Void last year just doesnât want Western developers working with them on anything other than sequels. But letâs not worry about such specifics, not when the request is so joyfully put.
https://lastchance.cc/capcom-still-burning-over-bionic-commando-failure-5435922%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
In the spirit of HIdeo Kojima making his very own plea to Kotaku, here is Capcomâs Keiji Inafune, inventor of Mega Man, honcho of Dead Rising 2 (made in Canada!) and other cool Capcom games with a request, made through a translator to me in Los Angeles last week:
https://lastchance.cc/kojima-san-doesnt-have-to-make-metal-gear-any-more-5369327%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
And any time anybody â I donât care if theyâre above me, below me or me â says that, they are wrong.
We are working with the West, because there is a lot that we get from it. Itâs becoming more and more a western market so we need to learn how to collaborate more with Western developers if we are going to be able to stick around as a company.
After Inafune made that request, I requested that he pose for a picture somewhere cool. As you can see, he obliged.
