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oniyide on 09 January 2016
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zorg1000 said:
oniyide said:

if that were the case how come we arent seeing Persona 5, Nier, ni no kuni, FF15, KH3, etc appear on Ninty consoles. turn based RPGS have been killing on PS platforms since Sony first came in. as for the other genres they see a lot of sucess on PS/xbox, at least on the online stores. To be fair its not like we even see alot of platformers not made by Nintendo on Ninty systems, why is that? 

 

Pretty much none of those games u listed are turn-based. But yes, JRPGs do well on Playstation platforms, I wasn't necessarily saying those games do better on Nintendo platforms, just that they do well on Nintendo platforms so if someone tries releasing a game for a Nintendo platform it makes much more sense to release a game in one of those listed genres instead of a Shooter for example.

Barely anybody in general is releasing platformers other that Nintendo, the western retail market has primarily become a shooter/open-world/sports/racing Sim market, u barely see any of the big western publishers release anything that doesn't fall in line with one of those genres.

Ok that makes more sense. But IMHO i dont think thats the way it works, these companies dont have infinite resources and money they are always going to go for the platform that game could sell the most on or do best on and it just seems to be Sony this gen, hell it hasnt been Ninty since SNES. whether a JRPG does better on Wii U than a shooter is irrelevant if it can do even better somewhere else.

True, but so what? big western publishers dont have to there are a bunch of indies that do it, bunch of platformers release on the new HD twins no one really cares if its released by a big publisher or not. Didnt MS make that Ori game? Sony just put out Tearaway unfolded, Ubi Rayman. They exist but to say only Ninty is doing them is wrong.