Safiir on 08 December 2016
| Wyrdness said: I think what the basic sentiment of the OP is that Switch at this point is the only upcoming platform that stands any chance of tapping into the huge portable gaming userbase in Japan that has overtaken and left the home gaming side behind. That large portable following is the only way for developers to possibly return to the performance of years long gone with the home console side of things ever declining. Eastern developers can't ignore their own back yard because business would become very wonky depending solely on overseas markets, under this sentiment I agree that they can no longer afford to pick one preferred platform as 600k for FF is shockingly low and highlights why DQXI has a 3DS and Switch version. The console decline in Japan has just become too significant. I think if Switch takes off well people in future may be in for some surprises in games/series that move to the platform and tbh if the platform is priced right I don't think anything is going to stop it in Japan. |
This assumes though that console gamers haven't already migrated to purely mobile phone games or even to PCs. For which we currently simply have no idea. The 3ds did very well in Japan by almost purely relying on Nintendo games. Who's to say the 3ds' audience is at all interested in 3rd party games? We just don't have any evidence either way.
