Keiji Inafune是日本游戏巨头Capcom的成员，主导过Dead Rising僵尸围城和Mega Man洛克人两款重量级游戏的研发。

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Keiji Inafune在接受采访时表示每年参加E3大会的时候都能给他一种很强烈的感觉，日本的开发者在全球特别是西方游戏市场的围堵下看起来越来越渺小。

Keiji Inafune认为他们不能仅仅只是依靠自己的现行技术，现在的方向应该是走向相互协作，和美国雇员与欧洲雇员一起做更好的配合。

当然日本游戏和西方游戏在理念和设计上多少存在着不同，但是可以更好地分享他们的知识和信息。

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The Japanese market has been facing trouble lately. In a recent interview with Capcom’s Keiji Inafune, the man behind Mega Man and Dead Rising said he believes that unless the Japanese developers start working on games that appeal to the Japanese market, speculation about Japan’s gaming market disappearing could become reality.

“Every year that I come to E3, year in and year out, the one thing I’ve noticed is that it seems like the Japanese game developer share seems to be getting smaller and smaller,” he said. “If you look at the major titles, they’re now primarily western.

“If you look at all the different signs and all the billboards, most of those are western titles. A lot of the key announcements are also western titles. I think to myself sometimes, if we keep on this course, the Japanese gaming market will disappear totally.”

“We can’t just rely on our own skill, our own Japanese developer skill and know-how, to steer us through this dark time,” he said. “It’s going to have to come through collaborative efforts and co-operation. It’s our U.S. staff, our European staff, working closely with them.

“Of course we are working with a lot of different western developers as well. It’s being able to share their knowledge and information, to collaborate with them on a very in-depth level, that’s going to allow us to grow as a company and to be able to understand how the market is changing in the west, and allow us to be competitive in those markets. That’s going to be essential for us.”

Capcom has already announced that they have scaled back on outsourcing to western markets for games and has remained committed to focusing on internal Japanese development.