| KillerMan said: 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. |
Figures that I had to read through this entire thread and the last post in it contains the point I was going to make.
Western developers have been making more different, advanced games than the Japanese for 15 years now... they were simply on PC until last generation (mostly). Once those games started bleeding into the console market, people went western-game crazy.
In time, people will burn out from playing the same Mass Effect clone for the umpteenth time, just as people burned out on the stagnated JRPG genre. It's bound to happen to shooters any day now, there's no way the market can continue churning out the same games with these kind of sales numbers.
Will the Japanese developers return with fresh ideas to fill the coming void? Hard to say. I don't see any indication of it but I don't see many interesting trends happening in western gaming, either.
PS. Referring to western games as "American" is completely fucking stupid. A large chunk of the best developers come from Canada, Europe, and Australia. While America plays a huge role in western games, they are far from the only ones contributing.
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