Japan sales (Week 33) Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - August 13 - August 19, 2018

[Mnementh]

Lawlight said:

Mnementh said:

Hmm, but obviously Japan is not a minor market overall. It is just that Sony has lost the grip here a bit. Treating it badly therefore would be as bad, as say Nintendo treating europe badly, because it isn't exactly Nintendos strongest market. If a market underperforms for your product, you have to put work into it to make your product perform better.

It’s a market that’s contracted severely - that’s undeniable. That’s why your Europe comparison doesn’t work. Sony can cater to that market but it would be at the detriment of the other, bigger markets.

Why would it to the detriment? Your explanation does not make much sense.

And why does my comparison not work. Nintendo has not much sales in eastern europe, because they don't have much in representation there. Does that mean Nintendo shouldn't try to build representation, if the sales don't pick up on their own? And at the time Sony expanded into the european market it was very small for console. You argument means they shouldn't have invested in that market (and they invested heavily) in the first place. No, your argument is wrong. Japan has 130 million people, good wealth and many active gamers. If you underperform in that market it is, because you haven't tried enough. OK, given, it is not easy, looking at the MS situation. But then a business is easy?