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src on 28 February 2020
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Nu-13 said:
curl-6 said:

That is very interesting. Japanese third parties really are being quite foolish by not taking supporting the Switch more seriously, they could be making so much more off its userbase than they are now.

Many would rather go bankrupt than be professional and support nintendo. And those are quickly becoming the only 2 option for most japanese developers.

Meanwhile in reality:

Nearly all publishers are making great money, some like Capcom and KT are making more money that they ever have lol

HoangNhatAnh said:
src said:

SMTV has chances to come to PS4, unless Nintendo also has a deal. There are still a few that don't. 

Yakuza 7
Judgement
Persona 5, Dancing, Royal
Catherine FB
13 Sentinels
Dragons Crown

Nights of Azure
Idolmaster

FF Disisidia

GB Versus, ReLink

More importantly, most of these do not come out on other platforms like XBX or SW. If we were to account for PC, XBX would have 0 exclusives, and SW would have 0 third party exclusives.

Bear in mind they are combining all releases. A better indicator would have been simply counting how many titles did better on each platform. 

If SMTV come to ps4, then P5R must come to Switch in exchange, and Switch also have Night of Azure 2

Doesn't work like that. They are different teams and deals. 

TheBraveGallade said:
Keiji said:

I don't agree with that. PS4 is almost at 10 million in Japan despite being a home console. So home console won't disappear in Japan.

Plus Final Fantasy VII Remake will be soon out so PS4 will be at 115 million units sold in Japan in matter of days so that's all good.

ps4 mostly competed with the wii U (a harder fight than what most people think thanks to INSANE staying power of splatoon, ps4 only surpassed WiiU around when the NSW was announced officially), while the 3DS was absolutly CREAMING the vita despite japan being the vita's best reigion by far. so basically PS4 was alone in its target market, similarly with the 3ds.

then the switch came along and threw a wrench in the ps4's long- term selling power in japan.

ps4 is mostly still coasting along its pre-2018 install base.

the PS5's the first playstation since the first where its future isn't guarenteed in japan, and that might be enough for japanese devs to shy away from developing up to ps5 levels of power, its a similar situation to when the ds and psp came along and console gaming never recoverd its previous status casue the psp/ds was "powerful enough" for most devs, exept that now the switch has enough juice to run ANY type of game as long as you restrain and optimize.

This is not true at all. PS4 had to compete with WiiU and 3DS. 3DS was far stronger than the SW and had far more exclusives (MH,DQ,YW) which the SW does not. 

PS4's sales cycle is pretty much in line with PS3's. PS5 will get more Japanese support than the SW, just like how PS4 got more Japanese support than the SW, because Playstation is the dominant platform for global software sales.