Destroying? Now that's some wishful thinking, also The Wither 3 was made by Western developers.

That's exactly the point that i am making. The ps2 was no more hardcore than the 360 or wii u otherwise it's hardcore games would have done better. Glad you agree with me. And you're comparing a console with an install base of 150 m + to a console of 10m lol. Bayonetta 2 selling 0.85m plus digital would have sold around 1m, an attache rate of 10%, this is pretty good for a hardcore title. An awesome game like shadow of colossus not even breaking a million on a 150 million userbase is an attache rate below 0.67 %. So like i said the ps2 being more of a hardcore console than even the the wii u is bollocks.

Read the whole thing. As OP writes 1 out of the 6 best rated 8th gen games is Western developed (The Witcher 3).

OT: Japanese games are definitely back in full force.

No they are not, Metacritic scores don't mean shit.

Though I prefer Japanese games more that Western games, I don't really think that is the case...

Western developers do make a lot of hit titles and are still really good..

ya they are Polish.

Ah, Metacritic. I don't even know how to approach arguments based on Metacritic anymore. I mean, when someone tells me that a game is high quality at 90 but a game at 87 is not, because a small sample of online writers liked the first one a bit more ... it just leaves me at a loss for word.

CD Project Red is Polish, not Japanese.

Outside forums aka real world begs to differ though.

You can judge games solely based on meta critics but western games imo are of better quality than japanese games overall. Sure both sides have their gems and duds but overall I think western gaming is way more mature (in a sense that they have a better understanding of the medium) and try more kinds of games than the japanese.

Except that a lot of reviews have only a shortcut written in english but the main site or the article are in italian, czech and other western languages i have seen a lot of times.

They arent allowed it looks to me, by the size of Japans gaming market it should be like a lot bigger. And if a japanese game gets released in the west there should allready be a review up from famitsu, 4gamer Because its allready out in japan. Anyways my point simple is that metacrtic is a very fishy organisation owned by gamspot