[http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179331

](http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179331) Development to continue inside Japan. What's the mojo in Japan, I wonder. Some other developments also mentioned in that article.

 Well the problem is these Japanese firms contract out their games to western teams that have little or no experience and are essentially cheap. Just because a developer is western doesn't automatically mean they're any good.

Also the big Japanese publishers realise that they cannot survive with just serving a shrinking  domestic market. They want to make games that are targetted to western gamers,with out really having a clue what that is.

So western produced games like Bionic Commando and Dark Void turn out into unplayable messes,but it looks like the japanese developed Lost Planet 2 is just as bad.

I grew up playing Japanese games,but I feel they are losing their identity.