Famitsu Sales: Week 46, 2020 (Nov 09 - Nov 15)

[Bofferbrauer2]

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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

Switch titles missing on Playstation:

1. Monster Hunter Rise
2. Monster Hunter Stories 2
3. No More Heroes III
4. Shin Megami Tensei V
5. Rune Factory 5
6. Ninjala
7. Bayonetta 3
8. Bravely Default 2
9. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3
10. Astral Chain

To just list the 10 biggest titles that are from third party developers and missing on the Playstation. Most of these titles are upcoming, because, like I said, it took a while for the developers to jump on the Switch bandwagon.

And about the bolded part: I hate to break it to you, but Monster Hunter Rise is the next Mainline title: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/09/monster_hunter_rise_to_receive_free_content_after_launch_targeting_30_fps

Dragon Quest is obliged by it's creator to by on the best-selling platform, so the next one will be on Switch for sure unless it will take too long until it's release. But then it will release on the Switch's successor...