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Soundwave on 07 December 2016
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deskpro2k3 said:
Soundwave said:

 

Seriously that opening for FFXV is ... a disaster. Once one of the top franchises in Japan now can't even hit 700k its opening week? There's no spinning how devastating this is. This one proud franchise used to clear 2 million in its first week without breaking a sweat there. 

I think Square-Enix hitching their wagon to Sony has caught up to them. Why has Nintendo never been given a main line Final Fantasy game despite having the best selling system in Japan for each of the last two generations by a large margin? Bet they are counting their lucky stars Dragon Quest XI will be on 3DS and Switch too, otherwise they would be in big, big trouble with Dragon Quest as well. 

Be careful what you wish for Capcom in making Monster Hunter for PS4 as well, because it could be a very similar and sobering result. 

Japanese developers better hope Switch does well in Japan, because it's curtains to the traditional  Japanese game industry if it does not take off. It's going to go smartphone only and you're going to see Dragon Quest XII and Final Fantasy games launching on mobile if Switch does not succeed. 

It's time for the Japanese community to support Nintendo again unless they want to gauruntee their own destruction. Street Fighter V bombing on PS4 was bad enough, this needs to be a huge wake up call. The traditional home only console in Japan is dead, it's time to rally around the portable/home Switch. 

 

It has nothing to do with playstation. japanese gamers just don't like square enix, and SFV launch was half baked (no arcade/campaign).

To ask a question as to why Nintendo haven't gotten a mainline Final Fantasy game is hilarious. To put it in simple terms, the hardware specs that nintendo been putting out is too weak.

I'm saying *now* there is no excuse for no Final Fantasy on Switch. 

There is no doubt the situation in Japan is dire and Nintendo is really the only one who has shown the ability to be able to move hardware in a real big way in the last 10 years there. 

But Nintendo can't do everything by themselves, this notion of Japanese devs sitting back and watching Nintendo try to save the entire Japanese industry on their own and being thrown a bone here and there ... that needs to stop. And now. There is no future for Japan's traditional game market if that is how this is going to go. 

It's time for Final Fantasy VII/XVI, Kingdom Hearts III, Tekken 7, Resident Evil 7, Ni No Kuni 2, Dragon Quest Builders, Marvel Vs. Capcom Infinite, and all these types of games to be on Switch just like Dark Souls III apparently is. No more excuses, no more of this "well lets make a Vita game even though the 3DS has 4x the userbase, this sounds smart" type nonsense. 

All of Japan's big support needs to help Nintendo now, Switch is the last hope traditional gaming in Japan has and if Japanese developers don't realize that, quite frankly they deserve to work on iOS/Android and nothing but. Even Sony needs to be rooting for the success of Switch in Japan, what's at stake here is far bigger than just one generation.