The latest ‘drama queen’ episode in Game Industry Land is the twitter spat between Kamiya (who made Bayonetta) and Kotaku over this story.
Kamiya is saying some ignorant things about Cloud (“sounds unstable” What? hahaha) and PC gaming. Kotaku made a story about it.
Why shouldn’t Kotaku make a story of it? It is something people want to read, right? That is Kotaku’s job is to put out stuff people want to read.
Why are they douche bags though? Kamiya made STATEMENTS IN A PUBLIC ENVIRONMENT and a gaming website made a news story over them. I’m glad Kotaku brought Kamiya’s attitude toward PC gaming to everyone’s attention. What did Kotaku do except ACCURATELY QUOTE what Kamiya was saying?
“But Kamiya doesn’t think it deserves to be a news story.”
That’s not for him to judge. That is for the readers, i.e. me, to judge. I want to know when a major Japanese game director is clueless about PC gaming.
Many see the twitter war and say, “A Pox on Both Their Houses!” Our Japanese friends, naturally, are cheering Kamiya on this.
It may be arguable that Kamiya is clueless about PC gaming. What Kamiya is demonstrating is that he is clueless about the Internet (which shouldn’t be a surprise for Japanese gaming).
But Kotaku’s job is to get hits. Of course, they are ‘sensationalism’ (meaning putting out stuff that people will be interested in reading). Video game directors do the exact same thing as in putting out sensationalist video games. That is what people want.
Plunkett, who works at Kotaku, responded by asking if Kamiya read the piece. Kamiya gave an insult as reply (and didn’t answer the question!).
Isn’t he the leader of all Japan? What other Japanese game director is there? Shigeru Miyamoto and Hideo Kajima (sp) maybe. But Kamiya is most certainly considered a leader in Japanese video games.
That’s pretty rude. Insulting in another language. What a small, small little man. And all Kotaku was doing was their job. Ondgaku correctly calls Kamiya out on this by calling him a pussy/coward for this.
What I find hilarious is Kamiya insulting Kotaku as a ‘stupid idiot foreigner’. But they are not a foreigner. They are in their native country. It would be like me calling someone in Djibouti a ‘foreigner’ simply because he isn’t in America. The person wouldn’t be a foreigner because he never left his country! Kamiya’s reactions here totally reveal that he is clueless to how the Internet works.
The Internet is a public arena. Anything you say on the Internet may be used against you. Anything you say on the Internet is completely ripe for a journalist to use.
“He is just reacting to the stupid PC port beggars, Malstrom.”
But they’re not stupid. His games are not on a viable gaming platform. So people suggest it to Kamiya.
Japan is the sick man here. Japan is the odd one out. Putting more Japanese games on PC gaming would be an EXCELLENT way to raise the profile of Japanese games within the West. The West would love to buy Japanese games on the PC.
If Kamiya is tired of PC port begging, then why be on the Internet at all? When you are on the Internet, it is like standing in a public environment. People are going to try to talk to you. You don’t demand people not talk to you. The only response is to remove oneself from that public arena and back into a privacy arena.
A famous video game director is going to be getting a bunch of junk messages. If Kamiya doesn’t like it, he has no one to blame but himself for putting himself out there.
However, that made my day. “Foreigners” hahahahawha. They are within they’re own country but they are ‘foreigners’! hahahaha. If I was Kotaku, I would reply that Kamiya is a ‘foreigner’ as well even though he is in his native country.
I think Kamiya got caught looking like a fool. He is responding with strangely channeling a local reaction Japanese have to international tourists to twitter. And instead of people wondering if he is clueless, he opened his mouth some more and removed all doubt.
Kamiya doesn’t get to determine what is and what is not news. In a way, neither does Kotaku. It is the readers who determine it.
Why WOULDN’T Kamiya want his comments to be considered news? Communicating with fans is nothing more than public relations work. A journalist conveying what is said is absolutely in bounds.
What a crybaby.
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