Addressing The Argument That Japanese Developers Are Not As Good As Western

[NightDragon83]

MDMAlliance said:

NightDragon83 said:
These days I give the edge to western developers, for the simple fact that gameplay-wise, many Japanese developers are still stuck in the 90's and early 00's.

GTAV alone drops its drawers and takes a massive dump on any Japanese-developed game released this year.

GTA is one game and you're making it seem like it represents all Western gaming.  Then you take a handful of Japanese games and make it seem like those represent all of Japanese games.  

I don't really think you know much about what Japanese games are being developed and more about the ones people complain about being this and that (even though there are still plenty of people ASKING for these things still).  

GTA is one of the pinnacles of western gaming over the past decade, and by far the most anticipated release of this year, so why not?

And there's more than just "a handful" of Japanese games that have the problem I mentioned, which is why many Japanese companies have been experiencing a struggle with sales of some of their biggest franchises over the last few years... Squeenix immediately comes to mind, as do companies like Capcom and Konami to a lesser extent.  Even the mighty Nintendo, which just a few short years ago seemed once again infallable is now also struggling again.