FFXV's Sales In Japan: It Is Time For Japanese Devs To Support Switch?

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RJ_Sizzle said:
This thread has turned into a plea to help Japanese game makers help Nintendo instead of themselves. Basically S/E would look at a massive downscaling of operations if they just retreated back into the Japanese market. And forget simultaneous releases. It'll go back to long waits for the west to get these games. Anyway. Games will always exist in some form in Japan. I don't know why it's up to Nintendo to save them. Nintendo's still trying to figure things out for themselves.

The opposite is true actually ... Japanese developers NEED the Japanese market. 

There's like 3 or 4 total Japanese IP that can sell around the world that are not from Nintendo. 

That is not a viable business model. How is this going to work going forward? PS5 will be what, 6-10x more powerful than a PS4? So Japanese developers will have to spend even more money and time making games for a buyer base that continues to shrink on them ... this is not a viable strategy. That is suicide. 

If anything I think increasing graphics fidelity is hurting Japanese game appeal, because the more realistic the graphics get the more silly Japanese touches to character/world design look to Western audiences.