Japan sales (Week 28) Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - July 9-15, 2018

[ryuzaki57]

Mnementh said:

ryuzaki57 said: Switch owners had the choice between an old-looking RPG and a modern RPG with waifus, modern graphics & animation, and they massively picked the one with weak graphics. I believe that can send a wrong message to 3rd parties : now SquareEnix or anyone can make a PSOne-looking RPG, slap exclusive + nostalgia on it and say "hey, Switch fans, this is just for you". Result being that Switch would get less and less high-end games and more old-school ones with low production values.

So the Switch owners in Japan had the choice between a quality game with Metascore 84 and a game with score of 71. So hopefully Square and other publishers get the message and bring more games of higher quality to Switch instead of trying to sidetrack users with flashy animations and waifus.

You guys didn't understand what I was trying to convey here. I'm not saying that Shining Resonance is supposed to be a better RPG than Octopath. Haven't played Octopath so I don't know. Pretty sure it's very appealing though. I just find strange that buyers would so massively disregard the better graphics.

You all watched E3 and saw that publishers tend to keep their most ambitious games exclusive to PS4 & X1. With Switch players not showing interest for graphical prowess, this trend can only continue, implying even less effort from 3rd parties to adapt the big games to Switch.