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While you're not wrong, I'm slightly less pessimistic about their future with the new leadership. But we'll have to wait and see what they deliver software wise to be competitive in Japan.

Sony had all the time of the world to be competitive in Japan. They just don't care anymore, lets be honest.

Sony is not making a handheld for appealing to Japan. Sony saw the sucess of both Playstation Portal and Steam Deack and want a slice of the cake, thats all.
This ideia of Sony doing a handheld for Japan is absurd. Wasn't NS being a handheld the main factor. Nintendo software appeal to more than half Japan population and consumers can only buy Nintendo products to play Nintendo games.

 

[L*][*N*K]

and with a cult at their back I am sure it will work

 

[LordOcidax]

Sony had all the time of the world to be competitive in Japan. They just don't care anymore, lets be honest.

Sony is not making a handheld for appealing to Japan. Sony saw the sucess of both Playstation Portal and Steam Deack and want a slice of the cake, thats all.
This ideia of Sony doing a handheld for Japan is absurd. Wasn't NS being a handheld the main factor. Nintendo software appeal to more than half Japan population and consumers can only buy Nintendo products to play Nintendo games.

A handheld only device no, but an hybrid could work world wide, especially with the diminishing return issue. An hybrid device with a PS5+ graphics would be amazing. And they already have their games on Steam, if you want top notch 8K graphics then PC is for you.

 

[Inanilmaz]

and with a cult at their back I am sure it will work

 

[Kacho]

Sony had all the time of the world to be competitive in Japan. They just don't care anymore, lets be honest.

Sony is not making a handheld for appealing to Japan. Sony saw the sucess of both Playstation Portal and Steam Deack and want a slice of the cake, thats all.
This ideia of Sony doing a handheld for Japan is absurd. Wasn't NS being a handheld the main factor. Nintendo software appeal to more than half Japan population and consumers can only buy Nintendo products to play Nintendo games.

I don't think Sony is going to reshape their entire business to cater to Japan, but I do believe they are interested in winning back some of the Japanese market.

Now that Jim Ryan is out they are decreasing the amount of GAAS slop they produce. And I think they see the writing on the wall for bloated AAAA western games developed in California.

 

[L*][*N*K]

Now that Jim Ryan is out they are decreasing the amount of GAAS slop they produce. And I think they see the writing on the wall for bloated AAAA western games developed in California.

So what are they going to do exactly? Make AAAA Games in Idaho? Herman doesn't seem like he is backing down from the GaaS slop anytime soon the dude literally through Concord was the future of PlayStation ffs

 

[yogaflame]

A big price drop for Ps5 and bringing back Japan studio to create A and AA games will really help Ps5 sales in Japan, but it looks like Japan gamers are more into handheld gaming this days. There are no problem when it comes to console sales around the world for Ps5 consoles, but in Japan it's a different story. Ps5 has allot of catching up to do against Nintendo Switch 1 and 2 in Japan.

I think at least in Japan, Sony PS has to release a hand held version of Ps5 as soon as possible in Japan. Maybe design the new PSP that existing Ps5 games for console (the existing digital version since Blue ray Disc is to big for a portable) will be back ward compatible and can run on portable mode, but of course there will be a little downgrade due to it is on portable mode.

 

[Kacho]

So what are they going to do exactly? Make AAAA Games in Idaho? Herman doesn't seem like he is backing down from the GaaS slop anytime soon the dude literally through Concord was the future of PlayStation ffs

If they introduce a handheld then that immediately impacts their development pipeline. They will have to make significant changes to accommodate that. What that looks like in the end is anyone's guess.

 

[Impotaku]

Sony when they see their weekly HW sales in Japan

PonyGAF when they see the newest famitsu thread

 

[LordOcidax]

Grade my job Luminoth-4545

 

[Mozza]

And to think that some people said that Bananza was a better launch title… Nothing beats Mario Kart World.

Antbody who said that was totally insane lol,,,

 

[Mozza]

I wonder if this has triggered Sony to make a PS5 Portable.

It clearly wasn't planned at the beginning of the gen.

You would have thought the Vita would have been enough for them. And the fact only around 3% of PS5 owners have bought a Playstation Potal should have been even further evidence.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

I wonder if this has triggered Sony to make a PS5 Portable.

It clearly wasn't planned at the beginning of the gen.

It might've, but hardware alone isn't going to fix PlayStation's problems in Japan. It's a three-pronged issue: lack of portable option, lack of consistent releases appealing to Japanese gamers, and lack of exclusives WRT what was just said.

A portable only tackles one of those three problems, and if the other two persist, it'll be easy to see equivalents emerge in other markets that could hamper PlayStation sales to some extent in those places too. I'm talking markets like China, South Korean (both of which where PC dominates, and at some point PS console growth has to mean competing against that platform), or even some Western markets like Germany and UK.

I think the main problem PS has now is the fact that PS popularity in Japan has always been driven by Japanese third party games, unlike in the west, Sony first party games like Horizon/God of War are generally not the drivers of PS popularity in Japan, that has usually been up to third party games like Final Fantasy, Monster Hunter etc. But the rise of PC gaming in Japan means that more and more people will just play those games on Steam instead. That means the rise of PC gaming threatens Sony's position in Japan more than it threatens Nintendo, because Nintendo still have mega popular franchises in Japan like Pokemon/Animal Crossing/Mario/Zelda/Splatoon/Kirby etc that people can only play on Switch 2. So if Sony wants to maintain or strengthen their position in Japan, they would probably need to start buying up like every major Japanese third party publisher and make them do PS only releases forever, which seems unlikely given that Sony first party games are being ported over to PC these days.

Well realistically, SIE aren't going to be able to buy up all of the major Japanese 3P publishers, both because of Nintendo and also because it'd be such a large spend of capital they'd suffer the ABK Effect. Basically, in buying all those big 3P publishers they'd have to go fully 3P themselves to recoup costs, let alone generate profits on top of what they spent.

 

[daclynk]

Nintendo right now.

 

[Danjin44]

I hope Donkey Kong Bananza sells even more….the game truly deserves all the praise its getting.

 

[Luminoth-4545]

Grade my job Luminoth-4545

You've added a picture of this weeks big release which gets you a big thumbs up.

 

[Deerock71]

It might've, but hardware alone isn't going to fix PlayStation's problems in Japan. It's a three-pronged issue: lack of portable option, lack of consistent releases appealing to Japanese gamers, and lack of exclusives WRT what was just said.

A portable only tackles one of those three problems, and if the other two persist, it'll be easy to see equivalents emerge in other markets that could hamper PlayStation sales to some extent in those places too. I'm talking markets like China, South Korean (both of which where PC dominates, and at some point PS console growth has to mean competing against that platform), or even some Western markets like Germany and UK.



Well realistically, SIE aren't going to be able to buy up all of the major Japanese 3P publishers, both because of Nintendo and also because it'd be such a large spend of capital they'd suffer the ABK Effect. Basically, in buying all those big 3P publishers they'd have to go fully 3P themselves to recoup costs, let alone generate profits on top of what they spent.

This...this is just an excellent post all around.