You people don't know Japanese work culture. People sleep under their desks instead of going home. It a major factor why Japan has such a high suicide rate.The Japanese work 80 hours a week! What?
Edit: Maybe developers do? I don’t know. I couldn’t find anything. But a quick google search reveals that the Japanese work, on average, 40 hours a week, just like most of us.
Also, I’m not convinced that game developers in other parts of the world aren’t working crazy hours as well. I’ve heard otherwise.
I have no special knowledge here, but this sounds kind of fishy to me, that the Japanese work harder than everyone else and are happy to do it?