Has Sony abandoned Japan?

[VanceIX]

Tamron said:

As someone living here, I don't see it as abandoning, Japan is a shrinking market for home consoles and handhelds are also on the decline, putting japan first would be detrimental to the success of the ps4, as it stands its only been out a few months here but nothing really japan centric has been released, yet. that will change over time as launch windowd are usually devoid of titles for all systems.
on the other hand the wealth of ps3 and psvita titles released and for sale here contradicts your argunent entirely, Sony hasn't abandoned japan, it has just done the intelligent move to put a much larger, better receptive country in priority to ensure an early success, all signs suggest that has worked fine.

To be accurate, i would say, Sony hasn't abandoned Japan, it has just made it less of a focus because Japan is quantifiably abandoning console gaming as a whole.

 

Why are they abandoning traditional consoles in Japan?  the one true,  correct and accurate answer is smartphones. 

Just gonna post this again

VanceIX said:

Eddie_Raja said:

They just know two things:

1) The Japanese are moving away from home consoles towards handheld.

2) They are all but guarunteed to dominate there this gen.

Now it is true that the Wii U is doing better there right now, but they still have yet to release any of their big guns.  NA is just a bigger market that they needed back dearly.  Once Bloodborne is out we will see...

1. And you know why Japan has abandoned home consoles? Because both Sony and Nintendo have completely botched this gen and to a much smaller extent last gen. Sony and Nintendo have always been Japan first, rest of the world second, and the Japanese took great pride in their companies. With Sony devoting almost all their resources to the west for the PS4, even delaying the Japanese release by almost half a year, it's no surprise that the Japanese feel that console gaming has moved on from them. And don't tell me that the Wii U showed that the console market was dead already, the Wii U flopped everywhere, not just Japan.

Sony released a boatload of mediocre games on the PS3 and Vita with niche support from third-party devs, resulting in the Japanese just losing interest. While Sony was busy devoting the most funding to shooters like Uncharted or Killzone or Last of Us, the Japanese got little known games like the White Knight Chronicles from Sony, absolutely nothing compared to Rogue Galaxy or Legend of Dragoon or ICO or Shadow of the Collosus. Even major third-party devs fucked up by releasing mediocre games on the PS3. SE released three half-baked Final Fantasys in a row, and didn't even bother with Kingdom Hearts 3. It's no wonder the Japanese got fed up with the market.

2. Sure, they'll dominate, but they won't reach near the level of success that the PS2 did. Japan was a major facillitator for both the PS2 and PS3, and no Sony has turned their backs on them.