Sturgeon's law applies everywhere, so I’d be hesitant to simply suggest that people are just satiated with slop. That said, I do think this is a domestic “regre

Sturgeon's law applies everywhere, so I’d be hesitant to simply suggest that people are just satiated with slop. That said, I do think this is a domestic “regression to the mean” like you suggest. Or, if you wanted to enjoy fun video games in China in the 90s and 00s, your favourite stuff might have more likely been a pirated copy of Age of Empires II. The cream of the crop was coming from foreign powerhouses. Just this past year though, there’s a blockbuster Journey to the West action game made in China. I can imagine it’s a more accessible way of playing big-budget video games since the language and culture are more familiar. In some ways, it reminds me of the console game crash of the 80s and Japanese software being very dominant in the United States until the late 90s and 2000s. The stuff from Japan was a little more foreign, but it was very good. Now though, western AAA games make up more of your average American’s playtime than they did in the past.