Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Philippe Lorin Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Win your own dev studio Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:41:57 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: AMarseille-153-1-11-233.w86-194.abo.wanadoo.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: ncritten wrote: > I found this its all in japanesse but running it through bablefish it > looks like you need to be a resident of japan? > > http://www.playstation.jp/scej/yarouze/faq.html I remember reading somewhere that you need to live in Japan, although you do not need to be of Japanese nationality (had to google a bit, most sites only repeated the minimal info). However, seeing how Japanese-centric the official info is, I would expect the "studio" and co-workers to be in Japan and mostly Japanese, so you'd have to speak Japanese anyway. Why don't SCEA and SCEE (almost) ever run similar programs? Granted, Japan's culture has integrated videogames better than USA's or Europe's, so there is a higher proportion of Japanese people interested in videogames; but the difference in the number of residents should make up for it... Was the Yaroze such a failure here?