NintendoPie on 26 April 2017
| Kyuu said: Form factor plays a big role in Nintendo's success with the Switch, Wii U's failure versus 3DS' success is self explanatory, but Splatoon and other Nintendo IPs also play an obvious role. Sony on other hand takes forever to make a single relatively low budget Japanese game. They'd rather invest on crap like Knack 2 over reconstructing their studios meaningfully. I remember Shuhei Yoshida commenting once on The Last Guardian costing less, in the span of about 10 years, than the average Naughty Dog game. This speaks volumes of how little care goes to their homeland studios. |
That's quite eye-opening, but also not surprising. Sony relies heavily on third-party support in the West, and it works. However, they only got a lot of niche third-parties for the Vita in Japan and even still that got beat up by the 3DS. The PS4 is a conventional console supported by Western ideas in a handheld-land that's still very self-centric, doesn't work quite well.
