Famitsu sales: Week 49, 2021 - (29th Nov - 5th Dec)

[Mnementh]

src said:

Mnementh said:

"JP publishers are not going to abandon PS or even go multiplat just because they are losing <5% sales."

Then you go on and list a lot of franchises that all have 10%+ in Japan. For a country with less than 2% of world population. Funny, how your own data contradicts your statements.

And that is with cherry-picked developers (no NIS, Falcom, Spike Chunsoft, Mistwalker, Level-5, Grasshopper) and with cherry-picked franchises (no Monster Hunter, no Dragon Quest). And yes, Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest are very important IPs for SE and Capcom. So even by leaving out all the software that has a bigger sales in Japan, you fail to support your own make-believe scenario.

I never said anything about abandonign PS, only shifting focus to PC, mobile and Switch. Which is already happening for a lot of these companies. I don't think Capcom will not release RE on PS, but I hardly believe it will be exclusive, if Sony isn't paying for that. And if you think japanese devs will ignore a market that makes more than 10% of their sales because they are such big PS fanboys that they are unwilling to look past that ecosystem, you lie to yourself.

BTW: Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity sold more than Nioh, so that isn't KTs best selling game anymore. Also Nioh sold as far as I can see about 20% in Japan.

Hyrule Warriors is a Nintendo IP.

The publishers I listed make 80% of the JP 3rd party software sales and prob 95% of WW 3rd JP software sales. Also L5 games now sell more overseas since JP sales have collapsed, Spike Chunsoft's biggest franchise Danganronpa sells more overseas.

At this point all you have in rebuttal are incredibly small, niche devs compared to 95% of the industry. Safe to say, its clear which one of our arguments is irrelevant.

FF7R, FF16, Forspoken, GranBlue Fantasy, GG Strive, DnF, P5 Royal, Ghostwire Tokyo, Deathverse, Babylon.

You claimed Nioh was the best selling Koei title, but it isn't. And I think Koei execs could care less that their best-selling title is a Nintendo-cooperation, while they count their money.

You boldly go on with lies as you claim, the publishers you listed make 80% of Japanese 3rd-party software sales, yet the actual data says different:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/konami-is-the-top-selling-third-party-publisher-in-japan-2020-and-momotaro-is-the-best-selling-game.1583745/

And even looking at said publishers:

Capcom shows they make more than 19% of their revenue in Japan (again less than 2% of world population)

https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/finance/img/img_title_03a.svg

So yes, even the strongly western oriented Capcom has a signifant portion of their revenue from japan.

Sure, as a westerner you might not care about Japan, but that doesn't mean japanese devs share your opinion. They want to make money. Japan is a significant market for them. So they will continue to pursue that market. If Playstation is unable or unwilling to support them in that, they will look into other options. As they already do. As I said, pretty much every japanese dev nowadays diversifies their portfolio onto mobile, PC or Switch.