Lost Planet Producer Respects, Fears Western Studios news from 1UP.com:

We’ve already heard about how Western development helped influence Lost Planet, but the game’s producer, Jun Takeuchi, expressed a combined respect and fear over the rising dominance of Western videogames worldwide. Speaking to Capcom’s official Lost Planet blogger Brian Dunn, Takeuchi expresses disappointment over Japanese studios “giving up” on producing games with worldwide appeal. “So this trend, this ‘game development isolationism,’ I think is very troubling. I’m concerned about what will happen to the industry in Japan,” he explained. “I think western developers borrowed and learned from Japanese developers all those years when Japan was ahead. They built on that and just blazed ahead on their own. There’s so many new, creative, inventive games coming out in the west. Games like Gears (of War) and Halo built on the past but just take everything to the next level.”