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Otter on 26 March 2021
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The_Liquid_Laser said:
Otter said:

Worth noting these titles are mostly late PS4 ports. Jack Jeanne is the only switch exclusive and of the rest, Magmaalord is the only new entry that hasn't already launched on PS4 in 2020 or prior. 

Does that really matter though? 

A few years ago there used to be a ton of Japanese games that were either PS4 exclusive or PSVita/PS4 only.  At this point, the real question is if a third party game will be Switch exclusive or multiplat (and even then the Playstation version is going to be the worse seller).  When the top 30 looks like this, there isn't much incentive for a Japanese developer to make a Playstation exclusive game.  The only Playstation exclusives going forward are going to be a handful of big international titles like Final Fantasy and Resident Evil.  Every other Japanese third party game will be coming to Switch.

Of course, without that context one would assume a switch exclusive future. Whereas in reality these titles are still selling notable amounts on playstation (they just launched there earlier), typically selling half of the switch version. Similar ratio compared to Playstation vs Xbox sales in the west. For japanese focused titles there will be little reason to be Playstation exclusive but multiplatform releases still make sense for now. Magmalord is only title which makes for a valid comparison (50% extra revenue by having a PS4 version). We can also compare the launch sales of Switch's highest 3rd party entry this week and what it done on PS4 when it launched last year:


- Densha de Go!! 24,393 (Switch)
- Densha de Go!!  21.592 (PS4)

Of course I'm sure Switch would have stole some PS4 sales if they launched day and date, but the point is Playstation sales are still pretty valuable which is quite the contrast to the point you made before.