Tekken creator Namco Bandai is drifting away from outsourcing titles to Western studios following dismal performance of “several major overseas releases,” company president Shukuo Ishikawa has revealed in an interview with Bloomberg.

“We found the quality and development speed of titles made for us by the overseas studios to be lacking,” noted Ishikawa.

He further stated that while the firm will continue to collaborate with foreign studios, it will only do so under the watchful eye of its Japanese staff.

It’s likely that the recently released Splatterhouse is one of the underperforming titles Ishikawa refers to. The company originally forcecasted sell-through numbers in excess of one million worldwide, a lofty target that was later dropped to 350,000. Additionally, mid-development “performance issues” with the now-defunct BottleRocket prompted a significant delay.

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