src said:
My reading comprehension is fine. Its more like you don't understand how things work. Is there any reason you think the PS4 worldwide userbase isn't going to PS5? Your prior post on how JP devs are going cope also made no sense. 10% of their sales are from Japan. Even if Playstation was to completely disappear, they would be fine as 90% of their sales are overseas, the vast majority of those sales on Playstation. |
"Is there any reason you think the PS4 worldwide userbase isn't going to PS5?"
We are talking about PS5 in Japan, and you bring up worldwide userbase. Secondly, there is a strong assumption, that customers have a high brand loyalty. If that were true, than WiiU would've taken at least half of the Wii userbase. But it didn't. Yes, there are fans of the brand that will take over, and they did buy the WiiU right from the start. But if a console sells 100M+ a lot of these customers aren't brand loyalists, and that is true for PS as well. Also the brand PS has taken damage in Japan especially, which is what we are talking about.
"Your prior post on how JP devs are going cope also made no sense. 10% of their sales are from Japan."
Thta is simply not true. You showed the data for it. Even for a strongly western focused company like Capcom, 10% of sales are the lower end of franchises, stuff that is highly successful in the West like Resident Evil. Even then, a loss of 10% of sales is nothing irrelevant. But 10% are the most western franchises. Monster Hunter has more like a third of it's sales in Japan. A land which has about 2% of world population. And that is Capcom. What is with NIS, Level-5, Nihon Falcom, Spike Chunsoft, Koei, Mistwalker, Grasshopper? They are not fine with dwindling sales on PS in Japan. So the truth is they look elsewhere. A lot of these companies already shifted a lot of focus towards PC, mobile or Switch, and if software sales on PS5 stay that bad, this will continue.
You seem to assume Japan devs are Capcom and Square. And even for them the japanese game market is important for franchises like Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest.
Last edited by Mnementh - on 11 December 2021
