Post by leunas on Mar 15, 2007 14:24:52 GMT -5
Japanese developers so get the DS. Western ones, it appears, do not. A feature over at Pocket Gamer shows that while a ton of non-Japanese companies are making DS games, most of them just aren't very good. The site took all of Metacritic's 201 DS scores and tried to see where American and Japanese games rated on the review scale. Their results?
...realise that the highest-scoring non-Japanese DS game is Tony Hawk's American Sk8land, in 16th position with (a very respectable) 84 per cent. We then have another Activision title, Ultimate Spiderman, in 34th place, and then another Tony Hawk's title, Downhill Jam, in 40th.
On the whole, the bulk of the top 100 places — 74 of them — are from Japan, while the country is responsible for just 32 of the bottom 101 places.
Tony Hawk, the West's great hope in DS gaming. Brian Ashcraft
DS In Japan And Abroad [Pocket Gamer via Flame War Advance]
Article:
kotaku.com/gaming/japan/western-devs-dont-get-the-ds-243997.php