Honest Conversation: Is Japan the best at making games?

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People don’t count Rare I guess in Nintendo’s strong pipeline throughout the years :francis:

And most recently Retro Studios
Not even sure what Rare has to do with that sentiment considering that it was way more than just Rare doing shyt since NES. Capcom and Konami alone were pretty much synonymous with gaming classics from 8-bit to 32 bit era unquestionably.

To keep it a buck, as kid growing up during NES days, I though Japan was practically the only country making video games, considering pretty much every big and smaller franchises known then had either Capcom, Konami, Sega, Squaresoft, Nintendo, SNK, Namco, Technos or Data East publishing.
 

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Y’all keep bringing up examples to the contrary which is fine but I’m speaking from a relative standpoint

ChatGPT seems to agree with me :manny:

This is why AI is dogshyt. Nintendo games almost don't count because they are all in house. They can literally go downstairs and talk to the hardware guys. Even Sony has to deal with the language/time zone barriers of with Santa Monica and Sucker Punch.
 

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No. A good portion of their games are made on Unreal 4/5. They can't even do a good job at their own engines anymore.
 

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No. A good portion of their games are made on Unreal 4/5. They can't even do a good job at their own engines anymore.
I don't think that's a case against them though for a couple reasons. I'm pretty sure a lot of devs use Unreal engines due to multi-platform releases being more the standard for most games and that's a standardized engine, for better or worse, for making simultaneously released, multi-platform games. The times when that's not the case, for them, just like for others, I see that it's not always an Unreal engine use case. And the results aren't worse for the most part either. And even the times that aren't optimal, there's other factors at play, such as the typical time constraints and limits of tech.

At the end of the day, most of your favorite games and favorite gaming franchises are Japanese made, assuredly. Super heavy emphasis on your for gamers worldwide and especially for your ass specifically.
 
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