What system is getting is getting the Persona 5 port?

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spemanig said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

Yah, but PS3s have sold what ~10mil life time in Japan? Why would Japanese developers be so quick to give up on the PS4? If Sega is smart they would use the media attention of the P5 on PS3 to capitalize on a PS4 and Vita port as well, considering either versions would be harder to advertise standalone.

Because the PS4 won't well 10m lifetime in japan. The Vita actually might. And Japan vastly prefers handhelds. Why would they just ignore the Sony one that's actually selling marginally okay over there and instead support the console nobody there prefers that's literally about to sell less than the Wii U week to week.

I would bet money that a Vita version of P5 would sell better on the Vita than on the PS3 in Japan.

I wonder why they can't port it to the 3DS. That would sell better than any of them.

Because Persona sells just as much in the west as it does in Japan, at least according to this site, and in the west the PS4 is vastly more popular than the PS Vita.

Also your whole dooming of the PS4 in Japan is still hilariously premature, it'll probably not sell as much as the PS3 but it will still sell more than enough for a game like Persona to do its average ~300k in Japan, most Japanese third parties only need that much to comfortably break even, so you can be pretty sure that they'll develop for the PS4, Sony always manages to get the third parties on board.

The Vita was in a similar situation the PS4 is in, it just didn't have many games that appeal to the japanese audience at the beginning of its life, and just like the PS4 the Vita also had very slow sales at that time. But as soon as the third parties games started coming (which according to your logic shouldn't have happened from the beginning, after all the 3DS was crushing the Vita), sales started getting better and the exact same thing is going to happen with the PS4 in 2015-2016.