Japan never gets software even remotely decent quality. I bet there’s almost no parental controls either.
Naahhh... they pretty much snurched Sony's ESRB parental controls layout lock, stock & 2 smoking barrels. Nowhere near the level of granular control or telemetry available on MS networks Family controls, but good enough that along with not having any payment method on file to enable "in-game" impulse spending, I feel safe enough letting him use their services.
It's just that Nintendo... I dunno.
I abandoned them decades ago when I realized what a clusterfuck their online store/console UI was; my hackles just went up and klaxons in the back of my head at 110dB. Everything about their website just screams
"The chile ain't right". NO common sense applied to pretty well-standardized things like e-commerce; they expect you to give up info that's none of their fucking business and they were one of the first to demand a "linked form of payment". When they later got hacked and hundreds of thousands of customers' CC info all over the darkweb, I knew my hackles were right on target.
Then it happened again a few years later.
Here we are a whole new generation of gamer humanoids later, and they STILL haven't grown the fuck up.
mnem
I don't WANT convenient in this case; I WANT it to be a PITA to waste money on video games.