Japan sales: Media Create, Famitsu and Dengeki - week 27 ( July 1 - July 7 )

[trestres]

Otakumegane said:

trestres said:

Otakumegane said:

trestres said:

So you are implying that PS4 will be a failure like the Wii U? It's not farfetched to think that, but seeing that companies have announced new big projects for the PS4 but none for the Wii U, I cannot follow your line of thought.

No because the PS4 will have Western games something Nintendo doesn't have. I'm talking in respect to Japanese console games.

We're going to be seeing a lot less of those, I don't expect great Japanese support for the PS4 either. Are there any Japanese console games for the PS4 right now with a release period?

FFXV is far off, Deep Down doesn't even have a decided name yet, and KH3...is due sometime around 2020?. And those are the only 3 Japanese games for the PS4 that were announced.

SE,Capcom,SE. I expect no others for a long time. Compare that to the amount of Western console games on the system coming at launch or with a proper release date, compared to those 3 with not even a window for release. (And those were all like Target render CGIs, I've even heard that only 12 sec of the FFXV gameplay trailer was real-time on GAF)

Expecting PS4 to do great in Japan, when we're not sure if it will even launch by the end of this year, is being really optimistic. 

This is not a Nintendo problem alone. When 2 of the 3 console manufacturers are in Japan, but not seeing Japanese developers create content for their home consoles, it's pretty worrisome. The reason why I also expect Nintendo to pool their resources into a hybrid next-gen is not only because of the WiiU doing poorly, but because the Japanese market shift in general.

I agree to a certain extent. But in general Japanese 3rd parties have far more confidence in Sony's home consoles than in Nintendo ones. Handheld wise, it's the other way around, but not as extreme as it's in the home console case. Having zero games from all companies but one, almost 1 year into the console lifetime is terribly worrying. PS4 has not even been released, we can't judge support yet.

Japanese 3rd parties also have far more confidence in handhelds than any console right now, especially if Sony is willing to neglect Japan this year and launch in the West 1st. 

If Sony doesn't even show that Japan is a top priority for the PS4, what makes you think 3rd parties in Japan will? Even the Japanese 3rd parties right now developing for consoles have said that they're going to stick to this gen for a while longer.

We can already judge to a degree the potential future Japanese support on the PS4, by the games that we know are coming. Just like how people can judge the WiiU right now by the games that we know aren't coming. 

Sometimes you just gotta know that Japan has let go.

You cannot compare a console that's yet to launch to a console that has been on the market for over 8 months. Wii U has literally no support, and you know that come the launch, most if not all of the series that made it to the PS3, will make it to the PS4 because they will be profitable. Meanwhile, Wii entries will not transition to Wii U and Wii U isn't getting any support at all, and chances will be slimmer once PS3 and 360 finally die, since multiplats will remain among PS4/XOne.

PS4 may be the only console capable of revitalizing the home console business, whether or not because 3rd parties simply don't want business with Nintendo, but the fact is that all the home console support will be heading to the PS4 once the PS3 dies. Wii U will be a non-existing entity for them, just another Nintendo 1st party console, like GC or N64 were, but with far, far less 3rd party support and perhaps with even worse sales at the end of its lifetime.