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animegaming on 25 November 2020
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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Keep in mind Playstation lost both of them before when the Playstation brand showed visible signs of shrinking in Japan. Sony got both only due to the Wii U being so damn bad at sales and the 3DS so damn weak. Now that Nintendo doesn't have either weakness anymore, both are coming back to Nintendo. You could see it well with the DQ XI S definitive edition first and now MHR releasing in a couple months.

Video games have long production times, so many games that are getting released now have still begun production only around the time the Switch got released, so the Switch being a big success was far from guaranteed at the time. Games that started development in 2019 or later on the other hand, are starting to flock over to the Switch, as the Playstation brand clearly has nothing to counter the Switch in Japan.

Not really. They're coming back but are not exclusive like they once were. Instead they now have notably popular Playstation SKUs. MH Rise is made by the Generations team, which was just one of many MHs 3DS that the SW will not.

The mainline MH, MH World will be effectively Playstation exclusive in Japan.

You're also wrong. PS4/5 has better Japanese support than the SW, even looking at titles one gets and the other does not.

PS4/5 titles missing the SW:

  1. P5R
  2. Aegis 13
  3. Yakuza 7
  4. Sakura Wars
  5. Gran Blue Fantasy
  6. Project Awakening
  7. Nier Remaster
  8. FF16
  9. Certain Falcom games
  10. Pragmata
  11. Ghostwire Tokyo
  12. RE8
  13. DMCV: SE
  14. Elden Ring
  15. Tales of Arise
  16. Scarlet Nexus

And yet how many of those are gonna be heavy hitters in Japan that push the PS5? Only really FFXVI on the list of you games is a major system seller to Japanese audiences and the rest are either unproven new IP's (Hell one of them is Ghostwire Tokyo, which likely won't get any sequels on Playstation nor Nintendo considering who owns Tango now) or franchises that are facing a decline in Japan like Yakuza and Trails. Even then some of them like Persona 5 Royal and 13 Sentinels are already out and did shit for the PS4 hardwise sales wise in Japan.