| Megiddo said: If anything has been proven thus far, it's that Playstation will maintain the high budget 3rd party Japanese titles since those rely on a western audience. The low budget visual novels or smaller games don't really have much to hold onto the Playstation brand anymore. Those will head to the Switch or Steam/PC or both. How much value do low budget titles have for Sony? None of them were ever that big of a factor to any of their success. After all the Vita was the king of low budget otaku stuff and visual novels and it was a complete disaster in Japan and outside of it. So unless a big IP like Persona or Neptunia decides to skip Playstation (which ain't gonna happen since those are western title successes as well) it really doesn't mean much. Is Sony going to mourn the loss of Wand of Fortune R2 FD: Kimi ni Sasageru Epilogue which sold 2.5k units this week? I doubt it. |
You're not looking at all the factors though non high budget games also include the likes of Octopath and such which as seen are not only notable games but can have an impact on platform performance showing these games can have significant value. High budget titles aren't going to leave the PS brand but they are and have been making efforts to be available on other platforms as developers focus less on appealing to one platform's userbase and want to have a collective following right across the board, for example SE dedicated a version of DQXI to NS and the are claims of them looking to bring the KH series over all the while the entire mainline FF back log is being brought over to both NS and XB.
Vita sold what it did after Sony left it to die after like two years factor that those titles you think didn't have an impact actually did.
