It's a combination of COVID, homeless, crime, and BLM riots. People working for Google are living in campers parked on the street. A "dream" job can't get people a place to stay. Fresh content for games usually comes from fresh programmers, but now everything is being outsourced.
Japan has its own culture. They prioritize national recovery over exports, it's likely that new Nintendo content will be released in Japan before they translate and revamp it for elsewhere. Japan doesn't always make it's decisions on purely financial reasons, the US should focus on being better allies to our friends in Japan.
It's a combination of COVID, homeless, crime, and BLM riots. People working for Google are living in campers parked on the street. A "dream" job can't get people a place to stay. Fresh content for games usually comes from fresh programmers, but now everything is being outsourced.
Japan has its own culture. They prioritize national recovery over exports, it's likely that new Nintendo content will be released in Japan before they translate and revamp it for elsewhere. Japan doesn't always make it's decisions on purely financial reasons, the US should focus on being better allies to our friends in Japan.