Japan sales (Week 12): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - March 19-25, 2018

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fatslob-:O said:

Ljink96 said:

And again, no we're not saying it's a failure and switch would save it, we're saying Switch has Japan by the balls and will soon surpass the PS4 with ease and will have a greater install base to sell software to consumers. That's what we're saying. We have Japanese developers blaming themselves for writing off the Switch before it released and scrambling to support it. Those who supported it early on, namely Koei Tecmo and Bandai Namco, which saw great returns on software. 

Easy for you to say when the game's target release date got delayed twice and it was well into mass production ... 

You seem rather concerned that Level-5's first release had to be Ni No Kuni II for the Switch but why that game specifically instead of The Snack World or Inazuma Elven Ares when Level-5 never released a title yet for the Switch prior to Ni No Kuni II ? 

At best what the Switch deserves are late ports in this stage of it's life and at worst it doesn't deserve the game because cutting into a developer's schedule isn't acceptable since they have better things to do than to just do ports of their games ... 

They also have better things to do then waste their time on PS4 games that take forever to develop and are expensive to make. I'm not suggesting they release Ni No Kuni 2 on Switch, I'm suggesting they should have used those resources for something like an ambitious Yokai Watch on Switch. 

Level-5's biggest successes have all been on Nintendo consoles (Professor Layton, Yokai Watch).