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RJ_Sizzle on 08 December 2016
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Soundwave said:
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. 

But what about those companies that don't want to do that and still be a major player on the world stage? That's like asking Honda to retreat back to making cars for the Japanese market only. I find this whole thread ironic considering its the west that made Nintendo a household name to begin with, considering they took a chance and picked the up pieces of the console market when Atari and other such platform makers fizzled. These companies are international conglomerates now. That does nothing for us if they retreat to a Japan first strategy. We'll be seeing less and less games be up in the air when it comes time to be considered for a port to the west. FF should never come to a point where they'll have to do an Operation Rainfall just to come to the west.