Japanese games generally have been wedded to the console, and they have excelled at console engineering. America for the longest time ignored the home consoles

Japanese games generally have been wedded to the console, and they have excelled at console engineering. America for the longest time ignored the home consoles after the big Atari crash, until the Xbox came out. And even that was more of a pc-ification of console gaming. It's more the accident of being in possession of an entire market to themselves I think than anything.