Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
^ they are, and truth be told alot of these Japanese portable games are absolutely dominating Western console games when it comes to gameplay and creativity. Case in point, Zelda which literally came out just a few days ago.

Inafune's critiques were that eastern games were reusing old concepts and lacking in new ideas but to pretend this is a symptom of only Japanese development is more than a little silly.
Yeah, sorry, Inafune is dead wrong there. Does the name "Madden" ring a bell? Or any of the other thousands of franchises that are running nothing but completely non-innovative sequels for the past decade?

Even among sequels, Japan has had a history, especially recently, of adding in some great innovation, while Western games have been so stagnant and boring.