Soundwave said:
In the past it was. It isn't now. Switch is the only system that has the potential for a *healthy* sized userbase in Japan in the range of 20 million systems. That is good for *every* Japanese developer, because then companies will be willing to greenlight games knowing there's at least some userbase to sell to. PS4 is never going to be a big thing in Japan. Never. I don't care if they release another model with 8K resolution. It ain't happening. Switch is the only system that has a shot at a Super Famicom/Playstation 1-2/3DS size userbase in Japan. So to me this is real simple. Japanese devs you either support this fucking thing or you don't give me the sob story 3/4 years from now that traditional gaming in Japan is dead and your boss will only let you make your IP on smartphone and you don't know how this possibly could've happened. But even the "it's complicated" stuff ... the 3DS has 20 million sold in Japan. And the only Final Fantasy games its really has it two fucking music games. What does it have to sell to get some respect from Square? 30 million? 40 million? They'd rather put World of Final Fantasy and are willing to jump through hoops and headaches to make Dragon Quest Builders run on a Vita though. Real smart. Why is the Vita getting a port of Final Fantasy X for example? That would run fine on a 3DS. |
If its space is restricted, then it's not a system with potential for a healthy sized used to base in Japan. None of that other stuff matters if the games are too disproportionately expensive to fit. It's not square's job to make unfavorable business decisions to help Nintendo out.
