katakpisang said:
lol , so did he admit vita is failure on japanese market ? he just ashamed to admit his own failure after all console market in japan = handheld + home console! he ignore handheld because of vita got kicked by 3ds really hard |
Says who? You can't just create your own definitions to make it look like he was talking about something he was never talking about. But since you apparently refuse to look for the interview I'll just post the relevant part here:
So I interpreted the Final Fantasy 7 remake as a play to get the Japanese market excited about consoles again, about PS4.
That's fair... I do not know the exact purpose of that project, or the agreement between SCE and Square Enix, but Japanese consumers are very conservative in the kind of games they want. Final Fantasy... is it 15 now? 15. And Dynasty Warriors, Tecmo Koei releases it every year and the people keep buying and buying. I'm not criticising the game, but people in Japan tend to like to stick to their popular franchises. So that's an additional challenge for the games coming from outside Japan. I have many great non-Japanese titles, as you know, but these games do not sell in Japan. SCE Japan is now merged with SCE Asia, so it's now one company marketing games in both markets, but oftentimes our western games sell better in Asia than in Japan because Japanese people's tastes are so different.
Is reclaiming Japanese gamers a focus for you?
Yes, yes... so PS4 has amazing sales, it's selling very well outside Japan because there are amazing games made from outside Japan. It's only this year that, with Dragon Quest Heroes and Bloodborne and Final Fantasy Type 0 and Yakuza, Japanese publishers finally started to make games on PS4 and PS4 is showing some upward swing in Japan. So definitely, Final Fantasy 7 and 15 and Dragon Quest Heroes 2, these games will help.
The whole freaking conversation was about home consoles.
