Isn't that description appropriate to all of Japan?

Man, if only America had some sort of public broadcasting service that was perhaps partially funded by the government, then we'd be able to see the universal truth!

I grew up a PC gamer too, and that's why I'm utterly desensitized to input lag. In other words, slogging through Counter-Strike with a dial-up modem builds character. Maybe younger gamers growing up with the rise of online consoles will be even further conditioned to latency.