That has little to do with "Japan" and more to do with "that's how it went back then."
replyThere's stories all over about Hollywood dumping physical copies of films, sets and props only to later regret it.
No one knew if a sequel or trilogy or decades of fan service would happen. They didn't care like our rose colored glasses of time make us see.
American comics and Star Wars has had their continuity reset.
This is just "grass is greener" type thinking. It's only ever been the US fan culture that cared; most creators just see it as a paycheck
Yeah my point was to downplay how specific this is to Japan, and focus much more on it being a pretty Nintendo specific phenomenon, though you're also right that video games (and other media) as a whole tended toward this sort of thing at the time, whereas now the painful lessons of losing this stuff is more apparent to creators.
replyWhat fan pressure? No one forced them to do anything. If they were as averse to it as you say, because of their Japanese genetics, they would resist any pressure.
replyPressure doesn't mean forcing someone to do something. And I also never said anything about genetics.
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