Famitsu Sales: Week 28, 2020 (Jul 06 - Jul 12)

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Kai_Mao said:

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Not sure why you wasted 10 lines saying "not for Japan" when I already mentioned it included global. I'm evidently more informed about the Japanese market since you can't even get general trends correct.

Nintendo having 80% hardware market share isn't go to stop Playstation continuing to get better third party support, because as I have said, and as history has shown for several generations, Japanese third party support is also dependent on overseas sales. If you want to talk about JP third party support then you need to talk about overseas sales as well. You should know this, since you call yourself informed.

Playstation hence continues to have the best JP third party support, in terms of sales share and number of titles. This is supported by data.

Its cute that you put Taiko as some bar, bu we look at third party sales as a whole (cumulative) and Playstation continues to dominate Nintendo in that regard.

Coming from the guy who thinks a SMT Remaster is going to do 300k on one platform, and justifies it by wrongly comparing it to a newline entry and its later released SKU, your projections are laughable.

All I can say is..at this point, any Japanese developer that ignores Switch, which is selling well in Japan and the rest of the world, are going to be criticized for having bad business decisions. Example would be games like the new SAO game.

Sure, there will be games that sell better on PS, but Switch sales would be an added bonus at worst.

The Switch is selling incredibly well and destroying the top 20 on the weekly charts in Japan. Why ignore an established user base that is still growing?

Out of personal interest, I'm rather baffled something like Granblue Fantasy: Versus released only on PS4 and Steam this year. Seems like a great fit for Switch, with a charming art style and more user friendly gameplay than most ArcSys fighting games. And ArcSys have already ported BlazBlue, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Under Night and a couple Guilty Gear games (not the newest ones yet).

Seems like Cy Games must have some deal with Sony, because they've also had that Granblue Fantasy action-RPG long in development only for PS4. But that's even more ridiculous, as it's a Japanese-centric game that seems likely to be pushed to 2021 now, releasing only for a system that'll be fizzling out by then.

The action-RPG would be harder to run, but if Cy Games had any sense they'd be finding a way to get both of them on Switch asap. Whatever deal Sony may've made, I doubt they care too much now as they're basically ceding the region. It'll just be lost sales, also stinting the potential growth of this franchise by not getting it to more homes in Japan.

These types of games that rely on the Japanese market, won't have much of a future if they stubbornly stick to PS with it's declining market share.