>>716269343 >Japanese devs struggling with the transition to 3D
>>716270428 >journalists wanting games to be "serious" and "mature", viewing Japanese games as juvenile
>>716270002 >general hatred or racism of Japanese culture and foreign things (anime style, tropes, etc)
Adding to this:
>Japanese devs hesitant to transition to 3D continued making 2D games, many of which Sony of America refused to publish on the PS1, reducing Japanese presence in the US market
>The 2D games that did make it over were typically anime styled (which had little western appeal at the time) and the victim of terrible localizations
>localizations of the era were infamously bad, and without options for original audio, killing any chance of many games succeeding or being taken seriously
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bangt7d9vGA

^ All of these combined created a sort of dark ages for Japanese games in the west.