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Gilgamesh said:

Japan seems to be moving away from the home consoles and going handheld atleast throughtout the 7th gen, can the PS4 renew what Japan was with home console gaming (big epic blockbuster games).

The Xbox one is not going to spike anything I'm sorry don't mean to sound like flaming but Mirosoft did everything in their power to get exclusives and timed exclusives for big games and even getting FFXIII when it released and it still only managed 1.6 million in 8 years, an imporvement over the orignial Xbox but still not much of an accomplishment. It's hard to say anything about the WiiU but in terms of third party games I doubt there will be an abundance of games for it, mostly first party. 

Hopefully the PS4 spikes some huge numbers and makes Japanese developers inspired to make huge (actually good) games like they use to, instead of popping out as many games as they can for the handhelds.

So what do you think is handheld gaming really going to be the future or is home console gaming alive for atleast one more gen in Japan.


Given that Japan is the biggest market for mobile gaming, I really really doubt the PS4 or any other home console will renew any console spirit in Japan. I mean Outside of Nintendo and Sony who needs to sell consoles, why would SE, Konami, Gung Ho, Namco and the others focus on making games for home consoles that will not likely sell more than 500k lifetime? Mobiles and Handheld (to a lower extend) are the future in Japan.



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