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Norion on 02 January 2022
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zorg1000 said:
Norion said:

To be more clear I was focusing less on the developers there and more on the consumers. For example there will be Japanese console gamers who care a lot about stuff like graphics and fps so that development would be very bad for them.

Well that’s a pretty small part of the overall market in Japan and like Rol mentioned, the high budget games are and will remain on PS home consoles while the small-medium sized titles that were on PSV or PSV/PS4 will be on NSW or NSW/PS5.

Even if it's only 1-2 million people it's still a portion that will get negatively impacted by that development and better hardware benefits those games too though with stuff like reduced loading times and whatnot. I'm basically saying it would be bad for the Japanese console market to become something close to a monopoly.

RolStoppable said:
Norion said:

To be more clear I was focusing less on the developers there and more on the consumers. For example there will be Japanese console gamers who care a lot about stuff like graphics and fps so that development would be very bad for them.

But by the looks of it, Japanese gamers seem to be even less concerned about graphics and framerates than Japanese developers. PS5 software sales have been bad all year long.

Your previous post came across as questionable already, but your supposed clarification makes it only worse; there's just no way your first post can be read to be more about consumers than developers. It all looks like an attempt to make us feel bad for the PS decline in Japan because it's supposed to be a bad thing for the whole console market, but none of the data is going to back that up. Maybe you shouldn't have framed it as something that we probably can all agree on. Strange what went down here. Very uncharacteristic of you.

Like I said above it's still some gamers who would be negatively impacted by such a development.

I said to be more clear so I was clarifying why I thought developers having only one good option would be bad. You're taking the initial post not conveying my thoughts that well too seriously, it's just one post I could've written better is all. I apologize for the lack of clarity but there's no need to get confrontational.

For what I was trying to say I'm basically saying that the Japanese console market having at least two competitors doing well is a better situation than only one doing well. It's good that in places like the US there are multiple platforms having big success and it would be worse if there was only one having that.

Last edited by Norion - on 02 January 2022