Its not hard to find good japanese video games that where made this gen. Plus Japan vs the West is kind of unfair since japan is 1 country while the West has a lot more.

Well my take on Japanese games nowadays is I look back to what I played as a kid. PS1 and PS2 really felt like the glory days for Japanese games... literally everyone I know played games from series:

Resident Evil
Devil May Cry
Final Fantasy
Metal Gear Solid
Tekken
Gran Turismo
Countless Square Enix RPG's.

When I look what we're all playing now and whats happened to most of the series above I can see the worries. I don't totally know what happened but for me Japanese games just don't cut it anymore. I think they just don't get what the mass market person who buys COD / AC / FIFA every year want in the same way EA do. Like EA made Mass Effect, Dragon Age, appeal to that type of guy... *shrug*.

I am hoping to reconnect with the Japanese type games now I own a Vita though. I'm guessing the best / most nishe stuff is only on handhelds now so hopefully some of it will come over... Disgaea 3 is out soon so we'll see how that goes. I have a feeling the anime vibe / cut scenes could kill it for me though lol.

The problems I have are with generalizations, sensationalize

You want to say you hate japanase games? Hate on..........

But the second you try to rationalize that as fact is when I take issue

I wouldn't be surprised if Inafune committed suicide and we learned he had some severe mental illness.