Intrinsic said:
spemanig said:
Honestly, I think that western gamers care way more about those games than Japanese gamers do. I don't think Bloodborn will do much of anything in Japan in terms of pushing consoles. MGS5 definitely won't. Dragon Quest Heroes wont. GT7 won't. Kindgom Hearts definitely won't.
FFXV will a little. You have to remember, that series is on a steady decline there and people are seriously overestimating how popular it still is over there. You know what significantly outsold it's best selling game, Final Fantasy 7, there? Dragon Quest. As in Dragon Quest 9. The DS game.
I'm not forgetting anything. "Japan centric games" are handheld games. Japan is caring less and less about home console gaming. It's less convenient and far more expensive than handheld gaming. This is a culture that still plays in arcades. Think about that. Think about why that is. They care so little about home console gaming that they'd rather buy coins whenever they want a gaming experience with more power, rather than investing in a home set up. Japan is actively regecting home console gaming.
I don't think anything will change that until maybe gaming becomes a paid for service. Then the PS5 is really just a subscription based streaming service, I can see some console games becoming a little more popular again. When Nintendo's handheld can play the next console's games on the go, I can see those "console" games becoming more popular there again. But physical home consoles? Never again.
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whoa.... you're worse than I thought and I can now understand why reasoning with u is so hard.
so you don't think, MGS5, DQ, Persona and GT7 will sell consoles in Japan? Wow.
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Console gaming has been on the decline for a good 10-15 years in Japan. Even though the PS2 sold more than the PS1 it didn't sell as much software in Japan. Perhaps Sony did a better job at making people buy their system twice that time around? In fact the NES had more million sellers than both of them. The NES had 2x as many million sellers as PS2.
The gaming market was so much healthier back in the PS1 era when 3 systems were actually selling well. In the PS2 era 1 system sold well and took all the sales masking the decline a bit in the japanese market. There is no doubt anymore as the decline has rapidly continued since then.
When we look at the million sellers by gen it is obvious the market peaked during the PS1 era with 43 million sellers and the most consoles sold overall.
first:
NES: 40
second:
SNES: 29
3rd:
PS1:31
N64:11
Saturn: 1
total: 43
4th:
PS2: 20
GC: 1
total: 21
5th:
PS3: 2
wii: 14
total: 16
Ok, I'm gonna slam this point home again: Tie-ratio.
PS1 - 12.61
PS2 - 9.6
PS3 - 7.35
NES - 11.67
SNES - 11.35
N64 - 7.18
GC - 6.82
Wii - 5.43
