Theory: MS Is A Major Part of Why the Japanese Market is Down.

[Darc Requiem]

bigjon said:

Darc Requiem said:
Wow? This was joke post right? Apple had no trouble crushing Sony in the portable music player market in the Japan. That alone makes your assumptions invalid. The Japanese market is the way it is for two reasons, Nintendo saw the shift in play styles coming and Sony thought they could do no wrong.

Sony has a dearth of IPs that would appeal to the Japanese market. Unfortunately for them, they've chosen not to use them. Sony's biggest problem outside of the ludicrous pricing was and is games. To my knowledge, Sony has yet to release a JRPG based on their own IPs. Why isn't there a Wild ARMs, Legend of Dragoon, Arc The Lad, or Alundra for PS3 yet?

Sony has focused near exclusively on Western style games. I see PS3 owners continuing the blame MS for the situation in Japan when its all on Sony. They were arrogant and it bit them in the rear. MS didn't make Sony focus their first party efforts on Western style games, Sony did that of their on volition. They took the Japanese market for granted. They assumed Nintendo would be a non factor and MS just cede Japan to them. Neither proved to be the case and now they find themselves in a bind.

Too many PS3 owners seemed to have bought the console based on assumption. You have no one but yourself to blame but yourself if that is the case. Merely looking at the upcoming release lists would have saved some people on this board a lot of heartache and spared us forum goers a lot of bitterness. If you buy for the brand instead of for the games you will get burned.

 

 no it was not a joke post. gaming in japan is different that MP3 players that seems rather obvious. I said sony was at fault too (the western thing).. hmm, anything else... I did not say MS was the only reason for the Japanese woes, they are just a major part. hmm...

Ok, lets look at it by your perspective. Japanese will buy american goods if they are better... So then... why is the PS3 still outselling the 360 despite the 360 having all the good Jrpgs and such? I mean if the 360 is the same as an ipod it should have sold since it was the best product for them....

OR maybe Japanese really dont like buying western gaming... stuff.

See the line I bolded in my first paragraph? There is your answer. Nintendo saw the shift in play styles coming. Nintendo saw that portables and pick up and play console games were the wave of the future in Japan. Sony and MS both targeted fading part of the market. Sony has sold as well as they have off of brand recognition. Similar how the N64 sold well initially in Japan. The 360 is the successor to the X-box. A system that had about as poor of a lineup for Japan as possible. The 360 had to establish itself as viable alternative before the Japanese would even take a look in its direction.

The Wii is only slightly behind the PS2's pace in Japan. Nintendo has accomplished this feat solely on their own for the most part. With third parties finally seeing the forest for the trees in Japan, you can only expect the Wii sales numbers to get stronger. Now if DQX hits Wii and does poor numbers, then you can say the Japanese market is down. However, given the fact average at best DQ Swords sold so well, I don't think that will be the case.