Dead Rising, Lost Planet Narrowly Escaped Cancellation

According to an interview with Capcom icon Keiji Inafune (he made Mega Man, folks...show some respect), Lost Planet and Dead Rising very nearly never saw daylight. Capcom management was hesitate to greenlight the projects because, as Inafune explains, footing a next-gen sized bill for a 360 game tends to make some folks in Japan a wee bit queasy. Fortunately for us, Inafune, refused to let the matter drop:

But as a game creator, if you can’t convince them to take those kinds of risks, you’ll never be able to make any good games. I think part of making games, part of being a game creator, is convincing the right people that what you’re doing is going to succeed and make money for the company. Plus, now I can use this to my advantage next time, like, “See, you can trust me. I know what I’m talking about here.”

The interview contains all sorts of info, some fascinating, some utterly random (his opinions on hamburgers, for example), including Inafune's opinion that developers are being worked too hard, and that companies need to make greater effort to restore a life balance to their dev teams.

Exclusive Interview--Keiji Inafune [Transmissions from the Lost Planet]