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Agente42 on 23 August 2021
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The_Liquid_Laser said:
IcaroRibeiro said:

I get some of their concern however. Switch is far underpowered when compared to other platforms, many of them want their games to be competitive with western games to sell well on PCs and whatnot. 

In big scope, Switch domination in Japan will further deep the already immense distance between big Japanese studios and mid sized Japanese studios. Only the big ones will remain competitive in western space, which was something that always happened but was changing last generation with more and more Japanese games getting traction outside Japan. 

Perhaps Monster Hunter Rise PC port sales will be my ultimate measurement to know if there is any hope for Japanese developers to make any breaktrough while still prioritizing Switch. If it sells fine, then I can see Switch-designed japanese games can still having market in West, if not then I must JP market and Western markets will evolve to be completely different from now on, except by Nintendo first and second party games 

I'm pretty sure the opposite will be true.  The small and mid-sided games have trouble getting discovered, because they don't have the budgets of the big games.  Therefore they get overshadowed on Playstation where budget size matters a whole lot.  On the Switch the small to mid budget games don't compete directly with the big budget third party games.  RPGs on the Switch don't compete with the latest Final Fantasy and horror games don't compete with the latest Resident Evil.  This means that if a "smaller" budget game has exceptional gameplay then it will have an easier time getting discovered on the Switch.

No one knew who From Software was until Sony gave them a chance with Demon's Souls.  The next type of From Software-like phenomenon will be on the Switch though.  Sony isn't looking for this kind of studio from Japan anymore.  A small to mid-sized Japanese studio that gets surprise success will be on the Switch.

Switch's dominance in Japan actually gives the smaller studios a chance to shine and get discovered.

Yeah, looking Falcon. The graphics are horrendous and, for much time, it´s a Playstation exclusive. All the novel games too.

Sony never grows the market, only sit in their pre-existence excellent worldwide distribution and supply games this way. When Nintendo goes down the market goes down too, when Sony goes down, the market grows, sometimes. Since Switch's launch, the Japanese market again expands. Sony, before the great rupture company, know for walkman, remain so little.  Ps4 domination in Japan only make the market decrease. 

The AA and AAA it´s not because of the platform, but the budget. It´s why compile heart, falcon have ps2/ps3 graphics on Ps5. So you argue it´s a false concerned and false problematization. The switch works in Unreal Engine 5 and other moderns engines. 

U know the switch sells excellent in US and Europe? And have a multitude Japanese games that sells well in the west. Japan needs to go to the west, it´s a false narrative when the sony plataform crashes in East Asia and Nintendo became a dominant force there. You have many Bandai Namco crash and burn in the west, Sega games crash in the sony consoles and nobody think, well the chance it´s lost. 

Now Nintendo doesn´t have one big-budget game with worldwide appeal, besides MHrise, and this game it´s selling very well in the West. So your concern it´s not based in actual sales.