Interview With Crazy Taxi Dev Kenji Kanno
- Scribbled on March 24th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Driving/Racing, Interviews, Sony PSP
1UP has an interview with original Crazy Taxi developer Kenji Kanno, who has brought the series to the PlayStation Portable as Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars, discussing the series, possible user-created content, and the differences between Japanese and Western gamers.
1UP: Do you think that might be a kind of approach taken by developers in Japan? It seems that most of the user created experimentation is coming from Western rather than Japanese developers.
KK: Basically, the styles of how people use their free time in Japan and the West are a little bit different. In Japan, people tend to go out, to not just stay inside and play games. They have to go to arcades, go to karaoke — so they tend to go out. Whereas in the U.S., players tend to play indoors and because of that, that breeds the desire to create user generated content. So, I think it’s just a difference between how we like to spend our free time.
(Thanks, 1Up.)
Leave a Comment (NOTE: Comments are moderated)