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Soundwave on 27 November 2013
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pezus said:
colafitte said:
pezus said:

Yakuza, Dynasty Warriors are two pretty big franchises. 

You're not seeing anything that the PS3 didn't have? Uhm, how about a game you just mentioned...KH3. And PS3 didn't launch with strong Japanese franchises, but PS4 will. This is basically what everyone against the PS4 said about Western sales as well. It has no big games, who will buy it over PS360 etc. First of all, the system will sell on its own merits, second of all it is way cheaper than PS3 was, and lastly it has bigger games coming out sooner. You're forgetting that MS and Nintendo stole much of Sony's potential last gen in Japan (MS by stealing JRPGs early on and Nintendo by selling well).

Tearaway? It did not launch this week in Japan

I hope you're right....you give me some hope Pezus!!!, but i will believe it when i see it...

Never listen to phenom when it comes to sales predictions. If you remember that motto, you will do OK ;o.

Soundwave is just someone that doesn't seem to be informed about PS4 in Japan.


I'm informed about it. List the Japanese games coming for the PS4 in 2014 please. 

Nintendo is highly secretive about its games, that's never been the case with Sony or their third party parnters. 

Beyond that it's just common sense, how many Japanese devs can even afford (or have the balls to risk) big PS4 development budgets on many of their franchises?

The new Persona game being on PS3 for example is probably a choice that's going to resonate with a lot of Japanese devs, if I'm a Japanese dev I'd rather make a PS3 game, because it has an established userbase and really as a developer I'm not willing to spend more $$$ than the PS3 level budget as is. 

A lot of Japanese franchises are in the same boat I think ... where's Ridge Racer? Tekken? Dead or Alive? Tales? Ninja Gaiden? There's so many Japanese franchises that unfortunately couldn't find a market last gen on consoles. 

The final nail in the Japanese console market is coming IMO, with Wii U looking like a flop, I think Nintendo is going to start moving forward full steam with a Nintendo tablet type portable gaming device that has higher end visuals and can perhaps stream to a TV wirelessly ... that's going to be the machine that kills the Japanese home console.