Famitsu sales: Week 50, 2021 - (6th Dec - 12th Dec)

[Mnementh]

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Year 2050, the same handful of users still cannot understand Japan likes mobile gaming, something the rest of the world realised 10 years ago.

Nintendo has a handheld. Sony does not. Nintendo can have a handheld because they are not supporting the entire third party industry with their hardware, hence weak hardware is acceptable.

Playstation houses the majority sales of the entire gaming industry, who develop games for cutting edge hardware, using cutting edge game engines, using software devs and creators that like to push the medium to the edge.

Playstation is never going to give up the top specs throne, and it shouldn't because that's where the money and the future of gaming is at. Maybe when streaming is good enough, or Sony gets some very good mobile chips that allows all current games to be played it will do another Playstation portable, but until then Sony is not going to worry. The future is simple elsewhere and the entire gaming industry knows it.

Well, in the last Famitsu thread (or was it even the one before) you were insistent, that japanese 3rd-party devs don't need and don't care for japan as market. Now you concede to my point. I said: mana japanese devs refocus on PC, mobile or Switch. Right there I said mobile and now you also consider the importance of the mobile market for japan. Progress! You may still understand the japanese market. Thanks for joining my position on this.

I think it is funny if you say:

"Playstation houses the majority sales of the entire gaming industry"

What? But you go on:

"who develop games for cutting edge hardware, using cutting edge game engines, using software devs and creators that like to push the medium to the edge."

Oh, an asterisk. Although even with the Asterisk I am not sure, PC wants a word. But as we have no proper numbers from PC, this could go either way.

Anyways, making a statement like this is like saying:

"Xbox houses the majority sales of the entire gaming industry, who release on Gamepass."

"Switch houses the majority sales of the entire gaming industry, who develop for hybrids."

Well, duh.

"Playstation is never going to give up the top specs throne"

Firstly, the top specs throne in console gaming is owned by the Series X, not that it matters I think. But I also would never say never. You know, this top specs throne was owned by others at the time Sony was holding the weak, casual hardware throne with PS2 (anybody remembers the DanceDanceRevolution craze?). Times change. But yes, for now PS follows the high pixel and polygon route.