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> Japan simply cannot do software Wouldn't the counterpoint here be the games industry? Sony PlayStation and Nintendo seem to make globally competitive softwar

• numpad0 2y ago
  That's a real flaw in this argument. Japanese software is at least okay and oftentimes good in gaming UI/UX, and at the same time hopeless anywhere else. One thing I happen to know is Japanese dev type people loves to victim blame for usability and unintended path issues. It seems omission of subjects/actors in spoken Japanese make it hard for them to comprehend issues. Japanese stoicism certainly isn't helping too. Maybe entertainment for its own sake is technical exception, as joy, ease, addictiveness, are clear goals rather than potential excess. Or maybe there are somthing else to it. But it's certainly an interesting inconsistency.