| M.U.G.E.N said:
? how the heck is those two markets merging? you rant on and on about japanese psyche etc etc yet you end up with sales as your argument at the end of the day. NOT THE SAME MARKET! period. again just because handhelds sell more does not mean markets are merging or suddenly how the Japanese market think they are one in the same. Just a narrow minded and wrong way of looking at things. don't worry I doubt you CAN be any clearer how wrong you are. I see smart phones selling loads but I don't suddenly imagine a world where Smart phones are the market leader for everything gaming. There is a reason why the HW is different, there IS a reason why people keep buying HOME consoles along side handhelds, there is a reason why home consoles are still getting some great game support from devs...because there is still a market for them that is DIFFERENT from the handheld audience. You are right, I do not comprehend how anyone with even a simple understanding of what different markets mean would not understand this simple fact. oh wait nvm I think I answered my own Q there. again just because the current home console leader is weak and performing poorly does not mean it's not the market leader in that segment. It's just a rather weak one which third parties seem to have let go of. Luckily ps3 is still getting a nice stream of games regularly, cuz some Japanese citizens apparently did not get the handhelds and home console merger memo. |
It IS the same market. It's where the developer interest is, where the publisher attention is, the press coverage is, and most importantly where the audience has gone. And yet you're still hung up on comparing userbase with smartphones or whatever? And I'm the one who's narrowminded? LOL
And wtf at that last cheerleading paragraph? Have you been paying attention to JP sales at all the past several years? PS3 is Japan's biggest scale failure since N64 (only N64 actually sold games), it's still getting a stream of support for reasons that have almost nothing to with it's actual performance in Japan. Hell, 360's getting most of the same games anyway, and it's an unqualified non-entity in the region. Wii's hardly alone in this, ALL home consoles are "performing poorly" in Japan this cycle. At least 360 and Wii can boast to have tripled/quadrupled sales gen over gen, rather than quartering them... the decline of home consoles in Japan can be linked most directly to the decline of PlayStation in Japan.
