Frogger on 05 June 2014
| Kresnik said: The vast, vast majority of Japanese devs/pubs only care about the east. Many only have western sales at all because they licence their games (i.e. Spike Chunsoft; Compile Heart until recently) and so will often get a set amount for the licence which won't really affect how much they'd get from western sales. Which would already be low because of the niche audience in the west. The bigger publisher are aiming at mobile, both in Japan and abroad, and so the idea of console development doesn't interest them much. There's a big title or two on the horizon (FF XV; Resi 7; MGS 5) but they're going to take time to create. There's a final, seemingly smaller category of developers with niche audiences but a western publishing arm - Namco Bandai; Tecmo Koei etc. These seem to have been jumping on board to PS4 earlier because they have some western sales to gain. But even then, a company like Namco hires out small Japanese devs to make small-scale games based on animes. They're still targeted at the Japanese market and therefore have little/nothing to gain from PS4 doing well in the west. Handhelds & PS3 will still be their primary market for a while. |
This is pretty much what I was going to post.
