Mr Puggsly said:
setsunatenshi said:
I'm still quite confused with the term "Japan centric games" you're using. Persona 5, Last Guardian, Street Fighter 5, several entries in the "souls" series, Final Fantasy VII Remake and also weird titles like Deracine (in cooperation with From Software again).
So yeah, it's normal that a company with such global representation will have titles that have global appeal, beyond the specific region where they are created. I don't see how this in any way bad.
If something, the Japanese market has moved more heavily towards mobile gaming, but that's a cultural shift and not necessarily representative of a lack of appealing games. Apparently when the strategy was one of catering to 2 audiences, things didn't go so well on the handheld space, although I still love my PSP and Vita till this day.
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I see Sony as a western focused company. People say theyre global, but a vast majority of their world sales are in the west.
Much of their decisions seem to start with this question, "does the west want this?" And I think thats a logical strategy. But people get annoyed when I say their focus is primarily the west and they've leaned more into that over time. Other regions are more like an after thought but a nice bonus in comparison. That's my view.
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The Western label is a bit too broad, if you really think about it, the US and European markets are quite different. Might be the reason why Xbox can't seem to make serious dents in the European market, but it's relatively competitive in the UK and US markets.
Just saying, there's a lot more nuance than your "West vs Japan" labels imply.
