[duxup]

>UI/UX and especially overall experience polish had always been a major challenge for Japanese engineering.

I can believe it. The whole issue of "Japanese video game companies don't understand the internet" to some extent still feels like it is an issue at times.

For a while it felt like we got late 1990s solutions in the mid 2010s... it's gotten better-ish in the land of video games, but man it's so bad at times still.

[grogenaut]

sony fixed this with the ps4 by saying eff it "harware is done in japan where we're good at it, you brits and yanks can have the software"

[numpad0]

Weird part is it doesn't seem to be working out as a business. They've completely lost mystique doing that.