Well, he's talking about sales - and he's right.
With the exception of Nintendo and some others, japanese games are being bought by japanese gamers only. In that way, they can be considered a failure, as the japanese software market is not as significant as it once was.

Haven't laughed that hard on these forums in a while.

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It's cool that people make statements like these, but they really need some adequate data to back up their claims. If they really want people to believe what they say holds value, evidence of Japanese games on aggregate sites comparing this gen with last gen would be useful, also the number of games as well. When that data is gather, it should be then compared to the Western market as well. Seems kinda silly that people are actually ignoring Western games when it comes to this controversial issue. Since there are more indie publishers in the Western market, I would say that the majority of mediocre games would come from the West.

But I have no data to back this up so I can't say without proof, much like how the Fez guy does and Inafune. If they actually want such things to be taken seriously, they really should provide evidence to prove so. But then again, you don't need evidence to get people to make threads about you.

Do you think everyone would give 2 shits about him, if he didn't say something outlandish that has arguing one or the other?

He got got what he wanted. 

Now there are a lot of exceptions, but a lot of recent games, particularly western ones that used to be big franchises or devs that used to be PC specific, have gotten dumbdowned in recent years. How many games have there been like fallout 2, deus ex, baulders gate, neverwinter, planescape recently? What about RTS's that have pretty much died altogether except for starcraft. I'm not saying japanese games don't suffer from similar issues, they do. 

 Old franchises get stale, Old companies get in trouble, some companies rise up etc. Old franchises are rebooted etc. People leave and enter companies. It happens in a lot of markets. Most people don't stay at the top forever. 

I'd agree that the amount of Great home console games has gone down a bit

But, I think it's unfair to judge japananese games unless you play handhelds, which forutnately/unfortunatly for a lot of people is where a lot of the japanese devs aim because the home console industry has severly dwindled in japan.

It's only applicable if you consider the games industry to be "High end HD Development." Everywhere else on dedicated consoles, Japan is winning in a walk. The West is lol on Wii and the handhelds.

Well Inafune just included himself in that list... he is Japanese after all. Hasn't made a good game in years.

BTW, I'd take a JRPG over a WRPG any day.

BTW, I'd take a JRPG over a WRPG any day.

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Man that fez developer can suck it lol. Inafune is right in a sense, but that goes for the west as well well except for the sitting on their past accomplishments part.

While I agree that Japanese game design is stagnating a bit, declaring that "all Japanese games suck" is stretching it, and I'm a bit surprised that Inafune wouldn't realize that when he agreed with it. You've got to admire his humility, though. He's certainly got more class than this Fish character.