Japan is not gonna forget about the PS3, make no mistake.

[FinalEvangelion]

mrduckbear said:

PSP anyone?

even the software is starting to sell now...it's definately a crazy market, but they don't forget about consoles that are behind.

Monster hunter was the selling point for it, and i think Sony should fight hard to at least make it multi-plat for Wii/PS3 on that monster hunter game. but either way, they don't forget and consoles that are dead last can make a big comeback and PSP is the one to look at.

 

You are going to have alot criticism here because some people just plain hate the PS3/Sony here.  You are right, people here said the PSP was dead in the water in Japan with no hope of surviving about a year ago.  Now it appears that it will become SE's next main system for development.  PSP was the first time in history that a losing console was able to make it later in life.

We have seen that MS is making improvements from 1.5k to 5k on resting weeks.  The 360 waking up relatively after 2.5 years on the market.  Sony could do at least 20k / week if they did these things -

 

1.  Make the PS3 physically smaller

2.  Reduce the price to $299

3.  Have a constant stream of jRPGs coming from it's first/second party developers.  No, not sRPGs or other Japanese developed games of different genres.  I mean traditional jRPGs like White Knight Chronicles, Dark Cloud, Legend of Dragoon, etc.  If they stopped developing so many $50 million + shooters for the Americans and Europeans, they could more often develop cheaper, but more frequent jRPGs that come out on a regular basis. 

 

For hardcore gaming, jRPGs in Japan are the life force just like shooters are in America and the West.