What do you want to see for First party support on PS5?

[The_Liquid_Laser]

twintail said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

On top of that, I think it is a mistake for Sony to be so Western focused.  They are basically inviting Nintendo to have free reign over Japan.  Obviously this is not as big of a market as NA or Europe.  However, the Japanese make a crapton of games.  In giving Japan over to Nintendo, they are kind of just giving most of the Japanese studios to Nintendo as well.  After a while these Japanese devs are going to notice that their core customers only play Nintendo, and just keep making games for Nintendo out of habit.  That is a whole lot of 3rd party games to just hand over to your main competition.  I just don't think that is smart business.

So, anyway, I would like to see more Japanese style first party games from Sony.  Those are the games I like and it would be smart business for them too.

No,  I don't think so.

Sony still gets most JPN publisher support,  and will continue to do so since they not only sell well in bigger markets, but they are the only of the 3 console manufacturers that has a strong presence throughout Asia, which has become an important market for JPN publishers.

Likewise,  Western games (especially open world and fps competitive scenes) are growing year by year in Japan, a strength of the PS brand over Nintendo.

So they aren't giving the JPN market to Nintendo by being more western focused, because they aren't losing JPN dev support.

A similar argument was said when Sony left the handheld market, and that materialised into nothing substantial. 

The problem with this argument is that it assumes the future will be just like the present.  You might as well be in 2005 saying "the XBox is no threat to the Playstation because the PS2 gets far more third party games."  Things change.  Third party support is fickle, even for Sony.  Third parties go where the money is.  For most Japanese third party games the money is going to be on the Switch.