I understand that video games are accepted as a serious medium in Japan, and the same goes for video game music: people would pay to watch orchestras with Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda and company, and they're loved by pretty much everyone.
Meanwhile, many countries in the West refuse to accept video games in any shape or form, and the older generation tends to think of video game composers as dull nerds that lack talent, and only compose blip-sounds.
I've always found this very frustrating, and I look forward to the day when the Japanese composers actually are taken seriously; and their orchestras should be introduced as "video game music from Japan" so the prejudiced crowds know what they're listening to.