  When it comes to the discussion on Japan. I agree they are often overestimated. Ive gotten the impression that asians mostly copy from us and refine our inventions, which they are quite good at, rather than do the ground breaking, pioneering parts themselves. Its like they are good at the heavy work, such as in this instance; programming tons of lines using computer technology originally developed in the west :P.  Overall they do that, and let's clarify asians is a broad term... mostly white asians are the ones that do develop white ideas... let's not talk about fillipinos, and such... :rolleyes:    Although Japanese do show some creativity, ask any Nintendo fan, they're quite creative with video games!