JayWood2010 said:
the_dengle said:
It would not be a completely outrageous suggestion at this point to wonder about Sony selling its gaming division to another company. Suppose the buyer was Microsoft, who could actually afford them. Would Microsoft suddenly become relevant in Japan, or would Japan become 100% Nintendo territory? My guess is the latter. The Japanese market won't take a Western console seriously. The global market would become extremely polarized, with MicroSony dominating the West and Nintendo effectively having a monopoly on the industry in Japan. This would lead to Nintendo securing key Japanese exclusives like Dragon Quest, Monster Hunter, and possibly Final Fantasy. They would still sell decently well in the West thanks to their first-party franchises, and that generation would probably be very balanced in global sales. |
this is very thought out and it makes sense. Props man. Some Sony franchises would help MSFT though in the East but yeah Nintendo would dominate in the east.
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Thanks. I disagree about Sony's franchises, though; their biggest sellers this gen were Gran Turismo, Uncharted, and LittleBigPlanet, all very popular in America and Europe, and not popular at all in Japan. Their best-selling first-party PS3 game in Japan was GT5 at... 780k. Sony is in an odd place: They sell well in Japan because they get good Japanese third-party support, and they get good Japanese third-party support because they sell well in Japan. It comes back to them being a Japanese hardware company. If they suddenly stopped receiving that support, or were suddenly absorbed into a Western company...
