Iwata: Thoughts on Japanese market

[outlawauron]

Louie said:

dib8rman said:
@Luie

You understand that your saying the Japanese market hasn't increased or decreased since whenever you started your research till whenever you end it.

Hmm, it would make sense for the Wii to compete with the PSP then?

 

First sentence: No, that's not what I'm saying. I said the market grew extremely big during 2006-2007 and is now getting back to the previous average.

 

Second sentence: Well, to some extend yes. Each PSP game a developer puts effort and money into can't be released on either Wii or DS. So basically those three consoles are competing for developer resources. The problem is that the market isn't big enough to have 3 consoles selling extremely well (more than 4 million units a year) so developers have to spread their resources over the three consoles.

The thing is just: We have 3 extremely hyped consoles now (maybe the Wii to a lesser extend) but as there are not that many people in Japan (the American market is roughly 3 times as big) all three consoles see good but not huge sales.

Eh, why not? We've seen a lot of PSP/DS and a even a few PSP/Wii titles.

I think it's a nice middleground for developers.