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Will Switch bring money to japanese 3rd-party-devs?

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Mnementh on 12 August 2017
killeryoshis said:
I am pretty sure the Switch will get all the Vita multiplats which also means we get PS4 games as well. That means the Switch will get a lot of Japanese games. Hope you like having lots of Japanese games!

Oh, I like japanese games a lot. I tried some of the big western franchises with PS3 (GTAV, Tom Clancy, Tomb Raider) and realized they are not for me. The colorful and non-serious japanese games, especially RPG, are way more my cup of tea. So I'm really happy to see japanese games doing good on Switch and hoping for a lot more and hopefully many getting a localization.



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Mnementh on 12 August 2017
twintail said:
Is this really surprising ppl?

Yeah switch will obviously get 3rd party jpn gages as long as porting is easy

Is it obvious though? Nintendo machines struggled from time to time with 3rd-party, western and eastern. Look at WiiU. It's looking like Switch could get most japanese games that are on other platforms and a healthy dose of exclusives. That's not usual for Nintendo machines.



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Mnementh on 12 August 2017
Soundwave said:

Actually the majority of these sales are coming from the West.

Disgea 5 did not do very well in Japan for example, but the West is what drove that to over 100k sales.

There are some Western success stories popping up too ... NBA Playgrounds has done very well on Switch, Shovel Knight, Snipperclips is a Western developer I believe, so has Minecraft I would assume. Ultra Street Fighter 2 is another one that didn't seem to sell that great in Japan, but Capcom has shown it sold better than they expected so those other sales came from outside Japan. 

 I think NBA 2K and FIFA have legit shots at doing well, but we will see. 

That sounds good. But generally I'm more skeptic about western 3rd-party. The history just support, that western 3rd-party do bad on Nintendo, even with big userbase. Look at FIFA and COD on Wii. And while I don't care much about FIFA, COD, GTA and stuff like that, I hope Skyrim does well, as I wouldlike to see more of that.



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fatslob-:O on 12 August 2017

Soundwave made a valuable point ...

It's thanks to the west that japanese 3rd party games are selling as they are, the sales of 3rd party games in Japan on the Switch so far are mediocre ...

I wouldn't count on the vast majority of japanese games doing well in the west though as not even the PS4 could carry or make those games sell ...

Switch is a money maker for some japanese 3rd party's but there's a mismatch in demographics between the Switch and the vast majority of japanese 3rd party's targeted audience enough to keep japanese 3rd party games from selling well in the west and even in Japan going by the numbers so far ...



GoOnKid on 12 August 2017
Qwark said:
Am I the only one who thinks it's rather sad a rehashed bomberman sells 500k. Don't get me wrong I would like to see Japanese 3rd party games do well on Switch. Although I would prefer that to be games like Disgea 5, Nier Automata etc. Instead of overpriced rehashes of old games.

Probably.