Famitsu sales: Week 16, 2022 - (11th Apr - 17th Apr)

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IcaroRibeiro said:

Kneetos said:

People have been addressing it

I've seen a number of people on other sites state its the reason some Japanese companies are making their games to appeal more to western audiences

Wasn't it last week this site reported that Square Enix's ceo said that japanese devs shouldn't make their games more western focus (or something along those lines) it makes me think that he knows that some devs are thinking about it, if not already doing it

This seems an egg vs chicken problem. Are third parties declining in Japan because devs are trying to appeal to West or are devs trying to appeal to West because their sales are declining?

Also lmao with SQUARE ENIX stating something like that. This is this meme coming alive: 

The decline has some factors:

1) the big Third parties are attached to sony space, Sony ecosystem is decreasing in two generations. So the sales of big third decreasing along.

2) Digital ratio increase, but in Japan market counts, best case scenario, 30-35%. Japan is the more physical market we know. 

3) Sony focuses on the European and US market, with few games development for the Asia market in mind. So aggravates sony lost the Japanese market.

And other tidbits, Switch stop the market from severe decreasing overall. The sony market is decreasing not market at all.