It's call the mind, numbing masses.  I think I speak for most gamers when I say it's fun to blow stuff up in a video game.  But when it's pretty much all you want to do in a video game and everything else has a far secondary preference, maybe you are NOT a gamer.  Maybe you just like to shallowly destroy things.  Sadly, that's the stereotypical western mentality.

Sony's not terrible, maybe not Nintendo-like but...yeah lol.

Got my vote as well.

Compare to marketshare ZOMG! :P

Also, look at the sales of the earlier Zeldas, and see what I mean.

Ratio arguments inherently favor smaller bases.  I guess Daytona USA was "more popular in Japan" than Gran Turismo ever was? ;)

And earlier Zeldas were big sellers too (with several million sellers over the years even)?  I'm not sure what you're trying to get at really, the franchise has always been popular in the region?  

Sony's actually a really good example imo, even if they've fallen off a bit on their JP side development wise.  Sony's probably the most global developer, with strong development studios in about every major region... that a bit different from Nintendo though, who's R&D is 90% done in Japan, but has global appeal.  

Square Enix failed because due the lack of "Japanese direction"... when your games were more "Japanese style" the success was evident, now with the globalization and more "western style" Square Enix failed over and over again.

just stupid ass thinking.

this is like if coka cola decided to only make coke and quit all other brands of pop/soda because coke sells the most.  that is what ALL people must want then huh? 

Has he ever thought the millioins buying these rpg's before liked them that way and are a different group than the fps fans?  comparing genre sales are just moronic.  its like comparing soda sales.  why compare root beer and coke, different people drink different pops.  If you make root beer taste more like coke you are going to lose your root beer fans and coke fans already have their coke, why have a half assed coke?

Lmao!

IMO the problem is simply because this gen is the golden age of FPS and Action Game and it's not the main strength of the japanese developer.

But game like devil may cry , resident evil , metal gear or street fighter are all from japanese developer and they are also action game. Bayonetta and Valkyria Chronicles have been ok sale wise, one was again an action game and the other was in a modern war universe.