| VanceIX said: Sony, in previous generations, came guns blazing in Japan with Playstation designed for Japan first and the rest of the world second. Now, there are very few first-party Japanese titles from Sony compared to the PS1/PS2/eary-life-PS3. This has lead to abysmal performance for the PS4 in Japan, and it is doubtful that the PS4 will come anywhere near the success that the other consoles did. Hell, they even jumped ship on the Vita, which is doing relatively well in Japan. Sure, we have Freedom Wars coming, but very little from Sony past that. They just don't care about the Japanese market. They focus completely on western games, most of which are your copy-and-paste Zombie or shooter or zombie shooter, with little to no JRPGs and other Japanese games that they built their legacy on. You may say that the Japanese market doesn't care about home consoles, which may be true. However, there isn't much there for them to care about. Little games dedicated towards the Japanese market at launch, with a bleak outlook for the next year as well. Sony really messed up in Japan. |
To compete with MS in the west Sony overshot Japan's needs with every console past the PSP. This had many huge side effects. The consoles were too expensive and didn't sell as well. They got less Japanese games. I think being too expensive to own and develop for just stopped the onslaught of Japanese 3rd party games we were seeing with the PS2 and PSP. Without low cost consoles and vast libraries of software for them you don't get big sales.
Other platforms are just doing the bolded so much better than anything Playstation or Nintendo can offer in Japan right now. Any person will care about having entertainment. Home consoles just offer the least value in that regard for their expense and portables fare better but are still below mobiles because of the astounding variety of content and the subsidized costs of Android phones and tablets.
Sony and Nintendo messed up Japan together. Fighting each other for the upper part of the market and abandoning anyone whom isn't OMG 3D graphics and Cinema gaming.
