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Soundwave on 08 December 2016
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BraLoD said:
Hynad said:

Here's some very easy piece of factoid for you: Japanese developers don't sell their games only in Japan. They're not "supposed to sell a AAA Japanese game on an anemic userbase", because Japan gamers are not the entirety of that userbase. So spare us your ridiculous and disingenuous 3.4M userbase number.

You actually touched a fine point there.
Games with huge investments behind them, will hardly aim for a specific region, but to the whole world, and specifically in Japan, they have being dropping in interest, while minor games are still keeping up, but in the rest of the world, interest for high profile games is much, much greater.
FFXV sales are also a nice point to that.

What AAA games from Japan are even left?

Betcha the FFXVI team is being told they're not going to be given the budget/time for XV team got. Not with these sell through numbers and not with likely S-E having poisoned the brand with retailers by overshipping out their ass. 

There's not going to be anyone left in Japan willing to finance Japanese games that have any kind of large budget the way things are going now. 

You think S-E is going to greenlight a Final Fantasy game for say the PS5 which has an even higher budget due to increasing graphics demands the way this shit show is shaking out? Noooooope.