Japan sales (Week 47): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - November 20-26, 2017

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Train wreck said:

TheBraveGallade said:
The interesting part here is "what will japanese 3rd party do?" Smaller Traditionally ps4/vita/PC devs like idea factory will probably jump en masse to switch, maybe in a couple years will not even bother with a ps4 version. And bigger devs would be stupid not to at least make games for it. In fact I could see the next dragon quest going switch EXCLUSIVE because all that really matters for DQ is japanese sales.
And the big thing is if sony starts losing japanese 3rd party exclusivity, its going to be sandwhiched between the xbone S with its 4k blu ray and shared 3rd party, and the switch with ninty titles and all that japanese support even if a lot of it is shared.

Still funny to see comments like these.  Sony is getting their ass kicked in Japan hardware wise, have been since forever YET they are still able to take back Dragon Quest after 10 years; have an exclusive, big budget (ironic) Monster Hunter, it still gets all the Final Fantasy games, still has Kingdom Hearts, Personas...pretty all the major (and minor) Japan 3rd party games, they continue to steal exclusives from Nintendo like Resident Evil Revelations BUTTTTT the switch is going to change all that.  Classic.

Then you top it off with the Xbox S nonsense. 

Shows how badly managed and short-sighted these Japanese developers are. With poor sales like that the PS4 doesn't deserve major Japanese third party support anymore (unless with a franchise that is also popular abroad like FF). 

When will Japanese developers learn I wonder.