I'd go further and say that a lot of software coming out of Japan is, if not of a poorer quality, then at least something to be assessed more carefully.
This is particularly evident in videogames, where anything for PC is liable to be extremely weirdly built and feels like it was made for Windows XP. There's a strong tendency to use archaic cheat prevention tools like nProtect GameGuard, which is a rootkit, and a weird reluctance to run servers in sensible ways. Oddly this is all actually helpful when you want to run their games on Linux because even though they don't seem to know it exists, the games are so "old" that they're pretty easy to get running.
Sony is actually probably one of the better companies for software. But they still do utterly weird nonsense that I'd never even think of. The PS4 throttles your download speed based on your ping to the download server. It's...totally wrong and confusing. But easily bypassed by running a proxy on your local network.
This is particularly evident in videogames, where anything for PC is liable to be extremely weirdly built and feels like it was made for Windows XP. There's a strong tendency to use archaic cheat prevention tools like nProtect GameGuard, which is a rootkit, and a weird reluctance to run servers in sensible ways. Oddly this is all actually helpful when you want to run their games on Linux because even though they don't seem to know it exists, the games are so "old" that they're pretty easy to get running.
Sony is actually probably one of the better companies for software. But they still do utterly weird nonsense that I'd never even think of. The PS4 throttles your download speed based on your ping to the download server. It's...totally wrong and confusing. But easily bypassed by running a proxy on your local network.