Sorry if i dont quite understand what you're getting at, but im not saying the west has no good games.  All im simply implying is that if one area just doesnt prefer a certain genre/style of games doesnt mean that something is wrong with them thats all.

And all im getting from these articles is that "Japan is weird for not liking Western games thus Japan is outrageous!".  Even if the western games are fun, but who are we or anybody else to tell another what they should or shouldnt like?   

First, don't equate the West as the USA alone. My point was to illuminate that some of the best developers around are based in Canada and other Western countries besides the USA.

Second, out of my top 10 best games of all time, 6 of them (Earthbound, Final Fantasy 6, Secret of Mana, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario 64, and Street Fighter 2) are Japanese made. From the article, it is pretty clear your average Japanese gamer does not share the same view of liking Western games just as much as we Westerners love their games.

 No one is telling Japanese gamers what they should like and dislike. I just find it odd how Westerners will buy up the latest Final Fantasy game like it is mana from the Gods, but it isn't reciprocal with our games from Bioware, Blizzard and Valve.

This discrepancy clearly shows the Japanese gamer needs exposure to games from outside Japan. The blame can be placed on Japanese society who elevates developers such as Shigeru Miyamoto and Hideo Kojima to God-like status and celebrity, while not giving just as good Western games the same amount of marketing and hype.

It could simply be that ever since the Japanese economy crashed in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the ensuing inflation of the Japanese yen, as game consoles have become more expensive, Japanese gamers cannot afford at a societal level on the scale of Canada or the USA to primarily use consoles as their main gaming unit. Thusforth, the focus has been on handhelds because they are cheaper and the games are overwhelmingly developed by Japanese devs leaving your average Japanese gamer ignorant of the latest and greatest such as Halo, God of War, Starcraft, and Red Dead Redemption.

I am just hypothesizing, there may be other factors at work including a wide held belief that any video game developed outside of Japan is shit compared to the mana from the Miyamoto and Kojima Gods. I don't know.

What I do know is that 6 of my top 10 best games of all time are Japanese made, we all owe Miyamoto a lot of respect and gratitude for creating video gaming as we know it, and that this issue of why Japanese gamers are under exposed to games made outside of Japan is an under discussed but very interesting topic.

they purposely don't buy games made by American and western developers

close minded peoples 

Kojima is the best and is a god though.

I'd take a bullet for Kojima.

While a lot of Western games don't do too well in Japan, I think I should point out the exceptions

	Game	Americas	Japan	EMEAA	Worldwide
	Donkey Kong Country (SNES) Nintendo	4.43	3.00	1.87	9.30
	Donkey Kong 64 (N64) Rare	3.31	1.10	0.86	5.27
	Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (SNES) Nintendo	2.13	2.21	0.81	5.15
	Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (SNES) Nintendo	1.19	1.77	0.55	3.51

	Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back(PS) Sony Computer Entertainment	3.87	1.33	2.37	7.57
	Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (PS) Sony Computer Entertainment	3.76	1.45	1.91	7.12
	Crash Bandicoot (PS) Sony Computer Entertainment	3.29	0.94	2.57	6.80

To me this points out that it isn't xenophobia (as these games were make in the U.K and US respectively), but that the games themselves don't appeal to the Japanese audience.  A western game might have more hurdles to jump over to be successful in Japan, but if the genre is right (honestly how many JRPGs and platformers have been made in the West this gen? Not a lot) a game should sell well

You do that and im sure Kojima will add you as a side character for MGS5. lol wouldnt that be awesome?!

Kind of funny that they bring up GTA a couple times as an example of what the Japanese don't like even though it is one of the few western franchises that has done pretty well in Japan.  Hell, with re-releases Vice City did over 600k.  That's a lot more than plenty of Japan only franchises.

Aside from Nintendo stuff, Final Fantasy, and Pokemon, I can't think of any franchises that have been equally successful in the east and west. There're plenty of examples on both sides though, Halo's not very successful in Japan, and Dragon Quest isn't very successful in the Americas and Europe, but both are megahits in their other territories.

I think it's more about how western developers find success in Japan much less often than Japanese devs find success in the West.  Western hits in Japan can pretty much be counted on one hand, and even then the only one that approached Japanese hits was a Nintendo franchise that happened to be developed by a western studio.

In comparison Final Fantasy, Gran Turismo, a ton of Nintendo games, Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, and dozens of other games are not just decent sellers, but some of the best sellers in the west.  There has been a bit of a shift recently towards western games (besides Nintendo), but I'd say it's more the result of the games coming out of Japan than any dislike of Japanese games.  Western console development has also improved dramatically in the last couple generations in my opinion.

lol cosign......damn a bullet.