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

[Lawlight]

Replicant said:

Lawlight said:

It is a thing - they just don’t do much for the Japanese audience.

I'd say that SIE Japan Studio has improved as they haven't released anything but good games since the Vita came out (see below) but I still hope for a new Ape Escape and The Legend of Dragoon.

 

Bloodborne (collaboration)
Everybody's Golf (2017)
Freedom Wars
Gravity Rush (+ Remastered)
Gravity Rush 2
Knack
Knack II
Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines (collaboration)
Puppeteer
Rain (collaboration)
Shadow of the Colossus Remake (collaboration)
Soul Sacrifice (collaboration)
Soul Sacrifice Delta (collaboration)
The Last Guardian
The Playroom (+ VR)
The Tomorrow Children (collaboration)
Tokyo Jungle (collaboration)

Thank you for the list - I’m well aware of it. 2 things:

1. Take out the games made for handhelds as we know that Sony isn’t in that market anymore. It’s useless to say “look they made an anime game in Freedom Wars” when it was made for a handheld that they haven’t supported in years.

2. Just because a game is made by Japan Studio doesn’t mean they’re made with the Japan audience in mind. Like Bloodborne - it’s a souls game that rose into prominence in the west. But it’s western oriented given that they revealed TLG and SotC Remake it at E3.

Knack is obviously a western-style game. The second one even released 3 weeks later in Japan.

The studio is even headed by a non-Japanese guy.