Sometimes I think the big problems talked about in the Game Industry(tm) are really the fault of a few big American corporations.
EA, Ubisoft, 2K Games, Blizzard-Activision.
Those are the four patting each others backs for perpetuating the same sort of garbage.
Are japanese publishers capable of nonsense? Oh absolutely look at Nintendo's virtual scarcity. But I never personally run into the problems of The Triple-A Industry, because I don't play the kinds of games from those publishers.