Diffrence between this gen and last gen is that western developers have moved from PC to consoles and that has created the illusion that western devs have somehow become better this gen. It's just that majority of todays gamers have always played with consoles so they ignored PC market in the past that had those awesome western games that they are playing now. At the same time Japanese publishers dominated the console industry. Not to mention that Japanese developers have moved to handhelds and western markets are not as adaptive for handheld software as Japan and because of that many of those great games are ignored here. I would say that Japanese games are just as good as always.








