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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan sales (Week 52): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - December 25-31 2017

Kerotan on 11 January 2018
Alkibiádēs said:
Kerotan said:

Nintendo got the exclusive deal instead of Sony. Yokai watch was also in development for playstation so if it had of had Yokai, monster Hunter and minecraft I think it would have sold 10m+

 

The bigger sales would have driven more support from other devs too. Basically after the psp disrupted Nintendo for the first time ever by providing competition in the handheld market they didn't want it to happen again and they shut down any chance the vita had. 

 

You have to say from a business point of view they played their cards right. 

Yokai Watch would have bombed if it was on the Vita. 

If the vita had the Holy trinity of yokai watch, monster Hunter and minecraft the console would have sold well and none would have bombed. 



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Alkibiádēs on 11 January 2018
Kerotan said:
Alkibiádēs said:

Yokai Watch would have bombed if it was on the Vita. 

If the vita had the Holy trinity of yokai watch, monster Hunter and minecraft the console would have sold well and none would have bombed. 

Yokai Watch is not what your typical Vita owner plays. It would have bombed and never became such a hype in Japan.

The Snack World has just been announced for the Switch. Not for the Vita and not for the PS4.

Level-5 knows where its audience is for these kind of games. 



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outlawauron on 12 January 2018
Alkibiádēs said:
Kerotan said:

If the vita had the Holy trinity of yokai watch, monster Hunter and minecraft the console would have sold well and none would have bombed. 

Yokai Watch is not what your typical Vita owner plays. It would have bombed and never became such a hype in Japan.

The Snack World has just been announced for the Switch. Not for the Vita and not for the PS4.

Level-5 knows where its audience is for these kind of games. 

Yokai Watch is very much the same audience as Minecraft, but I agree it would have only had a fraction of its success if it were on Vita instead. Nintendo has always has an stranglehold on the kids market.



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Kerotan on 12 January 2018
Alkibiádēs said:
Kerotan said:

If the vita had the Holy trinity of yokai watch, monster Hunter and minecraft the console would have sold well and none would have bombed. 

Yokai Watch is not what your typical Vita owner plays. It would have bombed and never became such a hype in Japan.

The Snack World has just been announced for the Switch. Not for the Vita and not for the PS4.

Level-5 knows where its audience is for these kind of games. 

Minecraft disagrees.