I think for Japan Sony needs more super cute or at least manga-style games the Japanese love. The graphics of such games are simple and cartoony, with all this power inside the PS3 developers may have lost their eye on what consumers really want.
Ninja Gaiden Sigma and Folks Soul look like good games but they haven't been in the Famitsu's most wanted games list, it was like this:
1. (1 / 1) Dragon Quest IX NDS Square Enix
2. (2 / 2) Final Fantasy XIII PS3 Square Enix
3. (3 / 3) Biohazard 5 PS3 Capcom
4. (4 / 4) Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Konami
5. (5 / 5) Monster Hunter 3 PS3 Capcom
6. (7 / 7) Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors Wii Square Enix
7. (8 / 8) Super Robot Taisen: Original Generations PS2 Banpresto
8. (6 / 6) Zelda no Densetsu: Phantom Hourglass NDS Nintendo
9. (14/16) Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII PSP Square Enix
10. (11/ 9) Everybody’s Golf 5 PS3 Sony
11. (13/10) Devil May Cry 4 PS3 Capcom
12. (9 /11) Super Smash Bros. Brawl Wii Nintendo
13. (16/14) Final Fantasy Versus XIII PS3 Square Enix
14. (10/12) Lost Odyssey Xbox 360 Microsoft
15. (15/17) Subarashiki Kono Sekai: It’s a Wonderful World NDS Square Enix
16. (12/13) Doubutsu no Mori [Animal Crossing] Wii Nintendo
17. (18/48) Gran Turismo 5 PS3 Sony
18. (19/19) Trusty Bell: Chopin no Yume Xbox 360 Bandai Namco
19. (17/15) Super Mario Galaxy Wii Nintendo
20. (23/25) Mana-Khemia: Gakuen no Renkinjutsu Shitachi PS2 Gust
I have much higher hopes for Everybody's Golf in Japan, hopefully matching or going beyond Gundam Masou. But I think the PS3 will only really start to take off in Japan with the release of Final Fantasy.
All in all I think the list points towards a positive future outlook for Sony.
