Why is it so hard for Japanese game devs to make a successful indie game? What do US/EU have that they don't?

Was Melty really totally indie? Good for French Bread if so, but I figured it was at least put out in arcades or something, even Blitzkampf was.

All these games are garbage nobody played it liked.

Japan has had a thriving indie community for a long time.
The West only picked up recently thanks to XBIG (xbox indie games, for the 360) and Steam.
Basically, hardly anyone in the West cared about indies until big corporations made distribution palatable for them

Fate Grand Order is literally bigger than any fucking indie you can name besides Minecraft.

kill yourself

It was indie as in 3 companies had their fingers in the pot, so not indie at all.

>Was Melty really totally indie?
It didn't stop being indie until later. It was totally indie, yeah.

>All these games I never played it.
Fixed it.

yeah, something like pac-man is absolutely normalfag shit that any random favela nigger would come up with at any time, japs got nothing amirite, fellow niggers

...sort of

GO was developed by Sony using Type-Moon’s property. With that said, it’s undeniable how much of an influence Stay Night has, spawning multiple TV adaptations, and becoming equivalent to Star Wars in Japan.

In English, nigger. You're in America.

"Creative" nips would rather make coomer anime garbage.

出来ない detected

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>why japan doesn't make any successful indies
>here are some that sell millions
>i don't like those so those don't count

just fuck off OP

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Look up maze chase games, you retarded zoomer.

What made west-indie games big wasn't steam or xbwaks, but it was Minecraft itself.

its not me retard

They have a ton of small indie games but most of it goes untranslated. Same way there's a shit ton of small indie releases coming out daily on steam but most of it goes untranslated, for Japs. Shit not even Zig Forums talks about them. Of course successful ones will get translated but the vast majority get buried.

And? It was an indie on the first place. I thought this thread was about indies becoming successful. Becoming not-indie is part of the process.

your post still retarded regardless.

>What do US/EU have that they don't?
Free time

I know, but you used the soulless casino spinoff made by a giant corporation as an example, not the VN that started it all.

I SAID FUCK OFF

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Indie =/= good
AAA=/= bad

>nintendo blocks your path

Sometimes Japs will put out fanmade translation patches for western indies. There's a guy who did V4LL H4LL-A and Helltaker by himself, and both games kind of blew up over there as a result.

indies not always good, but western AAA are always normie trash.

>Indie =/= good
sure
>AAA=/= bad
incorrect

Maybe there is the little problem that they ARE IN FUCKING JAPANESE?

Sometimes AAA games are a good game weighed down by their publisher's bullshit. Doom Eternal is a good example.

>"It's retarded even though Pac Man is just a shitty random maze chase ripoff and I concede that you're correct."
This is how you lose graciously lmfao

Isn't Sakuna a one-man project? Same dude that made Fairy Bloom Freesia IIRC.

haha what a retard

Isn't that a sign on how successful it has become?

I guess.

space Invaders ripped off something too, nigger?

time

kys, faggot

Literally lookup the doujin gaming scene in any capacity, not just the porn games either, but literally any successful porn game or porn game franchise disproves your point.

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Western indies get free marketing all over the world.