Yea I did see that similar reaction from Square-Enix. It's pretty ridiculous.DrunkOnEstus said:What a xenophobic and misdirected plan. As I was reading this, my mind was screaming "we don't understand why other people are successful, we need to ramp up all the things that people hate us for doing". Also, I'm pretty sure that the low sales of the western games were due to what you had them do or what they had to work with, not that they happen to be "western". I get the same feeling from Square-Enix...like they're butthurt about the decline of Japan's influence in the gaming world and decide to hold their western partners to ridiculous standards in order to consider them failures and downplay their relative success.
Way to be the EA of Japan, Capcom.
I also doubt their non-Japanese studios get the same level of priority and attention when it comes to developmental teams and whatnot.