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"Nintendo has practically eradicated PlayStation" from Japanese market | 99% of game sales of 2021 in Japan is switch
Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
Same guy who predicted that the Wii U would be extremely successful haha, or that said that PS5 isn't going to be successful in Japan because... it's white.
This dude is basically Japan's Michael Pachter. His insight is interesting and at times funny, but should be taken exactly as seriously as Pachter's.
This dude is basically Japan's Michael Pachter. His insight is interesting and at times funny, but should be taken exactly as seriously as Pachter's.
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driqe
Member
This is showing data from Famitsu no?
Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
The data is data. The take that Nintendo did anything to Sony is not data. It's just a hot take, and it's just as silly as some of his previous hot takes.
Sony did everything on its own in Japan.
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Orutisu Furio
Member
Wow that's both amazing and sad.
PlayStation has essentially ignored the Japanese market and focused on the west for many years now. That's bad because to be honest the lack of good Japanese game development is missing in their portfolio lately.
PlayStation has essentially ignored the Japanese market and focused on the west for many years now. That's bad because to be honest the lack of good Japanese game development is missing in their portfolio lately.
driqe
Member
Ps vita 2?
Kataploom
Gold Member
This is so true... I mean, Nintendo would be really successful anyway, but PS wouldn't be so behind at least if they had something to appeal japanese market.
And contrary to what some here state, no, japanese market is not falling into irrelevance... Markets evolve with people preferences and needs, if businesses don't follow, the loose is on them not the market.
justiceiro
Marlboro: Other M
This moment probably will go down as the closest xbox managed to sell as much as playstation in japan.
OnThePathToWisdom
Member
Not hard to eradicate something that has no stock to sell.
I’ll be honest, where’s the narrative that Sony has abandoned Japanese games? My favorite games of the PS4 were Japanese and often exclusive. Persona, Nier, YS 8, Final Fantasy VIIR, 13 Sentinels, TLG, Bloodborne... and so many more came from Japanese devs. If anything I’d say we got WORSE content from them Japanese wise in the PS3 gen. If anything this just goes to show that Japan does fuck with home consoles much these days.
Bruno_Arrais85
Member
Who cares. Just buy both platforms and be happy.
Zeeed
Member
Every time I see a thread like this I always have 4 things on my mind:
1) Why do they never include the Xbox sales?
2) Didn't I hear these stats are only physical copy purchase as they don't release digital sales numbers?
3) If you want to make guaranteed money at this current junction in time, invent something for old people or the tweenies. The Babyboomers are old and need care and have a lot of money, the generation after the babyboomers are retired with great pension plan from the golden age, so they have massive spending power to spend on themselves and... you guessed it, the tweenies. Tweenies don't have money themselves, but they have parents and grandparents(with loads of money that they don't know what to do with them), so they dote on their grandkids.
4) Using the above information, guess what older people and tweenies will find easier to play? You guessed it, a Switch. Older people and tweenies are less likely to get a PC gaming rig or a PS5 or a XBOX. They see this very "simple" switch thing that both older people and tweenies can all understand and even play together. They'll probably buy the small physical cartridge instead of the digital version so they can give it as gifts and that is what they are used to doing, etc.
Anyways. that's just my thought on these thread that keep popping up.
P.S.: Let's just hope Sony and MS doesn't go with the easy money route of old people and tweenies and actually make games and systems that can run those games for us inbetweeners
1) Why do they never include the Xbox sales?
2) Didn't I hear these stats are only physical copy purchase as they don't release digital sales numbers?
3) If you want to make guaranteed money at this current junction in time, invent something for old people or the tweenies. The Babyboomers are old and need care and have a lot of money, the generation after the babyboomers are retired with great pension plan from the golden age, so they have massive spending power to spend on themselves and... you guessed it, the tweenies. Tweenies don't have money themselves, but they have parents and grandparents(with loads of money that they don't know what to do with them), so they dote on their grandkids.
4) Using the above information, guess what older people and tweenies will find easier to play? You guessed it, a Switch. Older people and tweenies are less likely to get a PC gaming rig or a PS5 or a XBOX. They see this very "simple" switch thing that both older people and tweenies can all understand and even play together. They'll probably buy the small physical cartridge instead of the digital version so they can give it as gifts and that is what they are used to doing, etc.
Anyways. that's just my thought on these thread that keep popping up.
P.S.: Let's just hope Sony and MS doesn't go with the easy money route of old people and tweenies and actually make games and systems that can run those games for us inbetweeners
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x@3f*oo_e!
Member
Yeah it's like saying mammals eradicated dinosaurs after the big meteor hit..
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Jesus.
What was the breakdown last year when TLOU2, GoT, Dreams, Miles and Demon Souls launched? I think Animal Crossing was the only AAA game release on the switch last year.
Regardless, wtf is Sony doing. Time for Vita 2?
What was the breakdown last year when TLOU2, GoT, Dreams, Miles and Demon Souls launched? I think Animal Crossing was the only AAA game release on the switch last year.
Regardless, wtf is Sony doing. Time for Vita 2?
ManaByte
Member
If Sony made their own Switch that was a hybrid console/handheld; not just a Vita or PSP, but something you could play on your TV and take with you they'd retake Japan.
SlimeGooGoo
Banned
Japanese want fun games, not woke walking simulators.
waquzy
Member
You mean they want colourful kids games, gotcha.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
driqe
Member
Sony: Censors anime tiddies
Also Sony: Epic Gay Sex Walking Simulator
Weebs aint gonna like that
BlueAlpaca
Member
Great news. Nintendo prospering is good for gaming.
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prinz_valium
Member
Ps5 is expensive, big and white with jot that much Japanese games support.
I think it's save to say, Ps5 will be the worst selling Playstation in Japan. I just hope it won't be super bad like only over 5 million.
Kataploom
Gold Member
But PS5 released in november... they had like 10 months to prevent the situation
Skifi28
Member
I swear, there must be 5 threads Iike this every day. The concern for the Japanese market is really touching. Interestingly enough, the majority of my favourite games these past few years have been from Japan and often ps exclusives. If Japanese people don't care and just want animal crossing, good for them, but I don't think it really matters one way or the other.
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Woopah
Member
To answer your points:Every time I see a thread like this I always have 4 things on my mind:
1) Why do they never include the Xbox sales?
2) Didn't I hear these stats are only physical copy purchase as they don't release digital sales numbers?
3) If you want to make guaranteed money at this current junction in time, invent something for old people or the tweenies. The Babyboomers are old and need care and have a lot of money, the generation after the babyboomers are retired with great pension plan from the golden age, so they have massive spending power to spend on themselves and... you guessed it, the tweenies. Tweenies don't have money themselves, but they have parents and grandparents(with loads of money that they don't know what to do with them), so they dote on their grandkids.
4) Using the above information, guess what older people and tweenies will find easier to play? You guessed it, a Switch. Older people and tweenies are less likely to get a PC gaming rig or a PS5 or a XBOX. They see this very "simple" switch thing that both older people and tweenies can all understand and even play together. They'll probably buy the small physical cartridge instead of the digital version so they can give it as gifts and that is what they are used to doing, etc.
Anyways. that's just my thought on these thread that keep popping up.
P.S.: Let's just hope Sony and MS doesn't go with the easy money route of old people and tweenies and actually make games and systems that can run those games for us inbetweeners
1. Xbox sales are very low in Japan and don't really affect anything
2. Yes these are physical sales. Famitsu doesn't have access to anyone's digital sales
3.If making games that appeal to a wide variety of people was easy, every company would do it. The issue is that creating and sustaining these mega hits at is something very challenging to do (and lately not many have succeeded in the Japanese market in recent years).
4. Its really the opposite that happened. Making new and growing hits is tricky,so many companies have gone the easy route of focusing on existing customers. This had lead to a lack of successful new IP and growing franchises (there are some exceptions, such as Persona, Nier and Ghosts of Tsushima).
To retake Japan Sony needs new software (either from itself or from third parties). A platform with the same software that PS4 and the PS Vita would not suddenly do much better.
Shouta
Member
The hot take that Nintendo did something to Sony over there is kind of silly but it's not a surprise that the data is mostly Nintendo titles. It's a portable system with at home functionality. We've known for decades now that Japan is a market that prizes the ability to take a game on the go because of the nature of their society. That plus the evergreen nature of Nintendo titles has helped them a lot.
Captain Toad
Banned
How many unsold PS5s are sitting on store shelves in Japan? Zero?
Why don't we wait until supply can meet demand there, before saying the PS5 won't sell in Japan.
Also, 2021 is a few weeks old.
Why don't we wait until supply can meet demand there, before saying the PS5 won't sell in Japan.
Also, 2021 is a few weeks old.
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Marcus Aurelius
Banned
Smarthpones are king in Japan.
iconmaster
Banned
"In fact, a certain chart show that 99% of TV game sales of 2021 in Japanese is switch."
Without meaning to diminish Nintendo's tremendous success with the Switch, this is really stacking the comparison against Playstation. 2021 right now is one month's worth of sales; the PS4 is on the way out; and the PS5 is barely launched and heavily supply-constrained.
I'd like to see this comparison again toward the end of the year.
Without meaning to diminish Nintendo's tremendous success with the Switch, this is really stacking the comparison against Playstation. 2021 right now is one month's worth of sales; the PS4 is on the way out; and the PS5 is barely launched and heavily supply-constrained.
I'd like to see this comparison again toward the end of the year.
Aion002
Member
It has been a long time since PlayStation stopped caring about the japanese market.
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Fbh
Member
That list doesn't reflect Sony caring about japanese games. Its just that Xbox is even less relevant around there so any japanese game designed for home consoles will appear on Playstation by default.
Of those games only TLG and Bloodborne were either published or developed by Sony, and I'm fairly certain souls games are much bigger in the west than in Japan.
Sony hardly has any first party games that appeal to japanese audiences, the vast majority of their first party studios are western.
Look at their upcoming announced Ps5 exclusives: God of War, Horizon, Ratchet, Returnal. The only big Japanese game is FFXVI and that's a timed exclusive (and an exclusive deal aimed at the west since it's not like FFXVI on Xbox would be a threat to Sony in Japan)
Not with their current software, no.
Japanese audiences won't rush to buy a portable playstation to play Uncharted and Horizon.
sublimit
Banned
What a stupid and rushed assertion to make especially when there are no PS5's anywhere to be sold. Perfect for the fanboys to use though especially the ones who like to take bits out of context to push their own logic.
Thanks once again for putting things into context. It's funny how some people pretend that the WiiU never happened and the Switch is the continuation of the Wii.
Thanks once again for putting things into context. It's funny how some people pretend that the WiiU never happened and the Switch is the continuation of the Wii.
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Captain Toad
Banned
So why are they buying Nintendo games? They might be fun if you're 5 year's old. I can't disagree on the misguided awareness of over-blown social issues though. (I refuse to use the ebonics term)
Woopah
Member
That's true everywhere. Famitsu's report looks at dedicated video game devices not phones
Agreed. The report should look at the last three years not just one month. Very clickbaity title.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Did PSP and Vita do well in Japan?
