[danbmil99]

Most Japanese companies are not run like American companies. There is a deep culture of compromise and consensus over top-down leadership. One of the results of this is the need for every stakeholder in the company to have a hand in every decision, and to get a piece of every new product.

For the Saturn, this resulted in the console packed with little goodies that were created by different departments. Things like off to the side audio chips that did barely anything. Dual CPUs. Strange 3D tech that used quads instead of triangles.

A few years later, we did work with Sony, and they seemed for some reason to work more like an American company, in the sense that they say they need more able to make rational decisions and move quickly when they needed to.

No one who has worked for a Japanese company would ever use the word agile to describe them. Sony may be the exception, at least at that time.