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

[Kai_Mao]

Lawlight said:

Kerotan said:

Ps4 has potential to sell 10m in Japan. That's extremely relevant. 50m-80m software sales at retail and millions more digital both full price and on sale. Then you have all that ps plus revenue. 

 

Another factor is all the Japanese games ps4 gets that end up selling well in the west. Many of them exclusive and many console exclusive. 

 

Don't get me wrong, Japan has declined but it's still very relevant to Sony. Yes you can argue they don't need it WW because they'd dominate regardless but no way would they want to lose their current sales in Japan.

I think the Japanese devs would still be there but, as they are doing now, they’ll focus on the west.

If Sony cared as much for Japan as they did for the west, they would have set up a Japanese video game making studio a while back.

So is Japan Studio no longer a thing?