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Norion on 02 January 2022
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zorg1000 said:
Norion said:

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.

I don’t really get your point, I just said those games can and likely will be multi platform.

With how the PS5 is doing certain games might skip it in favour of being Switch only and I think gamers losing the option to pick a PS5 version would be bad.

curl-6 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.

It's not like Playstation is going to disappear completely from the Japanese market, and it will still get the AAA stuff from Square and Capcom for instance, so it's still an option for gamers who care a lot about graphics and performance.

Those gamers are a small minority though; the average consumer doesn't care all that much about technical specs, look how many games with weak graphics/performance or low spec systems have found huge success.

It won't but I am worried about a single company having such a massive percentage of market share.

In Japan they probably are but even if they make up a small portion I want them to not be impacted in a negative way by their preferred sort of platform getting worse. Like Sony sending so little stock the past few weeks could very well have a negative effect on the PS5's support over there in the coming years so the PS5's bad performance this holiday season is a shame to see.