VanceIX said:
It's not just that, it's Sony not investing in good Japanese game development, and worst of all, delaying the release of their home console by almost half a year in their own home country. It's the baffling things like that that have driven the Japanese away from consoles. Sony has no one to blame but themselves. |
I don't see how that is in any way baffling, just think about it that way:
You are console manufacturer with limited resources that wants to launch its system, now you have a choice to make, do you either:
A) Put your whole initial attention to the non japanese market which by large has pretty similar tastes in gaming, meaning that you won't make a game that is huge e.g in the UK but a total flop in the US, or do you
B) divert resources from the many times larger western market to be able to get out titles for the japanese market, which have a very large probability of being pretty useless material to sell your console in the west with, and to semi successfully launch your system in japan simultaneously with the rest of the world?
I sure know what I'd do. Also, I really don't see how you can say that Sony is not investing in good japanese game development, we don't really know a lot of what is going on behind closed doors over there, they could very well and I expect them to, already be working their third party magic. And their japanese studios are surely also cooking stuff up (though they do have some problems with that branch), starting with Bloodborne early next year.
