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Wyrdness on 30 December 2021
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konnichiwa said:
Wyrdness said:

Falcom seem to think otherwise, the biggest successes for these companies is when the brand is healthy in the region and ironically Falcom highlight the mode of logic you posted here their biggest successes were on PS so they stuck to the platform exclusively and now with the brand declining their sales are down and have started in house Switch development after being forced into contracting studios to port their games to NS that's the reality right now.

Capcom made a Switch exclusive this year and it sold 7m with half those sales coming from Japan.

But using falcom is like cherry picking, a ton of game franchises are not doing that well anymore. Case in point, next week we will get the DW empires 9 sales. It looks like the Ps version sold more than the switch version but even when it is on a userbase of 30 million DW empires 9 seems to be selling less than DW empires 8 that was on PS only.

MH is interesting because where is MH World 2 going to release on?  If it is exclusive for Switch then yeah you are right but what does it say if it skips the Switch?

Falcom is just one example the other example has been the top 30 in recent times for example FFVIIR barely sold 1m on PS4 and was hardly a blip on PS5 and this is an anticipated remake of a well liked game meanwhile on the Switch side the likes of Momotaro and Taiko no Tatsujin out sold VIIR on both platforms combined just think about that for a second, Switch versions of games are also outselling PS versions in the region.

It isn't cherry picking it is pointing out what things have come to, you seem to miss the point of MHR you said it's a risk for NS exclusives when that clearly showed otherwise MHW is shared across the other platforms while NS has its own ground up game that other consoles don't have indicated the was more confidence in the game being on a single console. MHW2 will release on XB and PS while NS or its successor will get another ground up game dedicated to it.

Last edited by Wyrdness - on 30 December 2021