"Console gaming is dead in Japan" - Reasons and Solutions

[averyblund]

What surprises me is the statement about work. Last I checked the amount of time working annually the average person did was about like this: USA>Japan>Europe. Mind you this is not a good thing, the US has over worked its population for years and as such sees diminishing results per hour worked and a generally more pissed out douchey population. But the point is the same, why wouldn't the US be the home of handhelds? Perhaps because we don't use public transit? But the Europeans do and they don't seem as handheld skewed as Japan either. I frankly don't quite get it.