Alcyon said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:
Ok, I am looking at upcoming 3rd party software. The games list for Japan looks radically different from the rest of the world. Just going to compare Japan to the US here, but Europe is not too different from the US.
Japan
Persona 5 Scramble ---> JRPG
My Hero One's Justice 2 ---> anime
One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 ---> anime
Kotoba no Puzzle: Mojipittan Encore ---> pure japanese game
Naruto...Ninja Storm 4... ---> anime
Utano Prince Sama...Love ---> anime
Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection
Minecraft Dungeons
LoH: Trails of Cold Steel 3 ---> JRPG
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix ---> some typical japanese stuff
Trials of Mana
Just Dance 2020 ---> late release
US
Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition
Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection
Eastward
Swimsanity!
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics
Panzer Dragoon: Remake
Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl - Gold
Minecraft Dungeons
Oddworld Stranger's Wrath
The Outer Worlds
One Finger Death Punch 2
Samurai Shodown
Trials of Mana
These lists are radically different. I highlighted the 3 games that appeared on both lists. And I know Just Dance 2020 has a later release date in Japan. But for the most part it looks like Japan and the rest of the world are getting radically different third party games. I know Japan is a small market that rarely buys Western games, but I would think the Japanese would export their games more. The US, for example, is a pretty big market. What gives Japan?
|
| |
Games are strongly related to animes in Japan.
|
Yeah, some of those games I understand. But not every anime is dead on arrival in the West. Games like Naruto and One Piece and Hatsune Miku all fall into the category of "maybe". They have gotten ports before even if it doesn't happen 100% of the time. And what about Persona 5 and Trails of Cold Steel 3? There is no excuse for not porting these games. There is a market for JRPGs in the west. In fact Trails of Cold Steel 3 already has a fully translated version on the PS4. They are already porting the game to Switch and the translation/localization part was already done for PS4. Why aren't they selling this on Switch outside of Japan?
There should be more of those Japanese games coming out of Japan. It just doesn't make any sense.
