I just got a PS2 and a handful of games off of some lady walking out of my local used games store after they wouldn't take it. It works fine, which I was kind of scared about, but I've been playing the crap out of it. Pretty much the only decent game that came with it was Bully, which I'd never...
I don't think it's so much that Japanese developers have lost their touch as that video games have come into their own in America and Europe. Time was, Japan was the only place video games were a big deal, and in the west they were mostly for kids and nerds. Now, everybody loves video games in...