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Soundwave on 08 December 2016
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Safiir said:
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.

You mean outside of like the 10-15 million selling third party titles on the 3DS? 

Maybe developers are the ones who are in the wrong here. 

The 3DS will outsell the every Sony system in Japan, even the PS2. It will outsell the Famicom, Super Famicom, and Wii. 

And that is right in the middle of the smartphone storm. 

And yet it still gets treated like a red headed step child in many instances when it comes to Japanese support. It's ridiculous really. 

If the Switch is treated the same way, fuck Japanese developers, they deserve the fate that's waiting for them which is their own greedy board of directors and investors turning on them and forcing them to work on smartphone games exclusively, because there is going to be no market left in Japan and the West is not going to be a savior for Japanese games with its weird art styles and effeminate characters and quirks either.