Comment Re:The nail that sticks out gets hammered down (Score 1) 315
That saying is quite fitting here across all parts of societ.y Japanese, in general, don't change format of anything. Once a business model works, they ride it out until they go bankrupt. Notable exceptions exist (Nintendo used to make playing cards but saw that market was dying.) but in the time I've been here I've seen the massive companies (unrelated to gaming) go bankrupt just because they were either arrogantly ignorant of the changing landscape or run with a culture of "don't rock the boat" which only makes change harder and harder the bigger they get.