If there are fewer features, then there are naturally fewer bugs.

Tears of the Kingdom is more featureful than the last few Assassin's Creed games and worked out of the box, which is more than I can say for today's Ubisoft products.

Seems like you're going to twist it around to "West is Best" chauvinism no matter what.

Elden Ring

Demon's Souls Remake

Death Stranding

Resident Evil 4 Remake

Street Fighter 6

Final Fantasy 16

Armored Core 6...

Every major PS5 game in the last couple years, was virtually flawless on release day.

And of course Nintendo is still scoring hits with almost everything.

Meanwhile on Reddit everyone is crying about the PC versions, of even PC-only games!

Starfield has been a bug ridden joke, typical of Bethesda, one of the flagship Western studios, still unable to improve their janky physics and cringey NPCs.

Diablo 4 gave me the only crashes I have ever seen on the PS5.

Harry Potter, Redfall, Immortals of Aveum... overhyped flops. Baldur's Gate 3 has been the only saving grace from the Western gaming industry that I can think of.

That's often a good tradeoff than average user think

Look at the PC ports. Games tied to FPS which results in poor in-game physics behavior. Inability to change settings. It's like they live on some other planet not us...

Devil May Cry 3 and Dark Souls 1 jumped to my mind immediately as notoriously bad ports. Even DMC4 and DMC5 have some problems. FromSoft games improved the quality of their ports on the other hand.

I do understand that Japanese mostly play on consoles but nowadays it's not an excuse anymore.

PC in general basically stands for Patch City.

Pretty much every PS5 game on the other hand has been basically flawless on release day.

It's not even about common bugs, it's about design choices. PC players are accustomed to being able to tweak their games. But in Japanese games you either can't tweak anything or the tweaks just don't work because the developers hardcoded settings in the executable (DMC4 SE as an example).

>WHICH PC game has been free of bugs in recent times anyway? Most indie games that I played. AAA-games are bug fests not because of the platform but because of the negligence by the developers.

> Most indie games that I played.

Fewer features, fewer bugs.

> AAA-games are bug fests not because of the platform but because of the negligence by the developers.

Meanwhile most AAAs in the last couple years from Japan have been flawless on consoles since launch day.

>Fewer features It's not like AAA games have an astonishing amount of features. Quantity over quality is currently driving AAA gaming market with its live service model. Meanwhile an indie game must be feature rich to grab attention because there are thousands of games to choose from.

>most AAAs in the last couple years from Japan Fewer games, fewer opportunities for messing up. On PC FromSoft games had problems with optimization (Elden Ring).

The gaming PC market is absolutely booming right now in Japan, so I guess they will be forced to adapt.