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"It's not that I always know best, but I can recognise disaster... Japan has been getting away with too much for too long. Because Japanese games enjoy a certain amount of adoration, people have been too ready to forgive the many little issues that have been growing over the recent generations, and now things have come to a head. With even big-name Japanese products being technical disasters, [we have] to come to terms with the idea that, well, Japan isn't the Mecca of video games... not any more."
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"You know, I don't want to overplay the death of Japanese game making. The industry is going through some changes right now, for better or worse. Some Japanese companies are still making games that are successful globally. I think it is more a fact that Western game development has grown and matured to a point it can easily compete. While younger generations grew up with Sonic and Mario, current generations are growing up with Halo and World of Warcraft.
Discuss.