LipeJJ said:
This is not funny, really. I think OP is exaggerating a bit, but the japanese industry's future will rely on Switch's success (or failure) indeed. Why? Because now there is no 3DS or 100% portable system from Nintendo anymore, so that's 1 less huge system there. There probably won't be a Vita successor either, so another big system not being there. So that leaves just PS4 and Switch and their successors, as Xbox is insignificant there. So, as you can see, the entire japanese industry can't rely only on 1 system (PS4 and future Playstations)... that's simply not viable. Especially since it doesn't even sell that well (will be lucky to surpass 10m consoles sold). That's why they need the Switch to succeed: it's another viable platform to develop for and since japanese games rarely are demanding, I'm sure 99% of third parties could develop one version for one console and port it to the other one without much hurdles. I think this will benefit PS4 as well, since it makes the chances of japanese third parties succeding bigger. |
Switch needs to succeed in Japan becuase it would be the only viable system in Japan. If it fails, that's it for the Japanese game industry, most of them are going to end up working on iOS/Android once their bosses start to cave one by one to investor pressure because there will be no viable userbase of traditional game hardware in Japan.
PS4's sales rate isn't getting it done in Japan, Nintendo is the only one who can still move millions of systems in Japan relatively quickly.
