Resident Evil creator: “If watching a playthrough is enough, the game wasn’t good enough”

There has been a lot of talk from game developers of late about the boons and pitfalls of streaming. With an increasing number of people happy to just watch a playthrough of a game rather than actually playing it. Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami has weighed in on this as he was asked on his stance on streaming by Japanese comedian and streamer Eiko Kano. Here’s what Mr. Mikami had to say:

“If viewers watch a playthrough of a game all the way to the end and are satisfied with just that, then it was only that good of a game.”

“Our job is to make games that leave people wanting to clear them with their own hands, even if they’ve watched someone else do it, so keep streaming.”

Interestingly Eiko Kano also asked Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii basically the same thing and also received a similar response from him.

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