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curl-6 on 29 April 2022
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IcaroRibeiro said:
curl-6 said:

Rol and Kakadu already said most of what I was going to say, so I'll second them, as well as adding that its hardly Nintendo's fault if third parties and Sony are out of touch with the domestic market.

Appealing to Japan and the West are not mutually exclusive; Nintendo proves its perfectly possible to make games that do both. Sony and a lot of third parties are simply doing a piss poor job of it these days.

I think this is a overstatement. Some kind of games have cross appeal yes, but is natural to expect gamers sith very different habits and backgrounds will have different expectations and tastes. Nintendo have IPs that are historically stronger in Japan than elsewhere and conversely IPs stronger in West compared to Japan (of course keeping market size in mind)

However Nintendo have a HUGE amount of IPs and money to afford keep them floating even if they aren't very prolific. Some IPs will be huge in USA, some will be in Japan, some will be in both, but in the end it will translate in succes for Nintendo's ecosystem 

Bigger third parties like Square en Capcom can afford that as well, but ghe bottom line is most of third parties simply don't have that huge amount of IPs or resources to keep enough games to appease to both markets. I don't even understand why exactly Japanese people expect from older IPs these days. Take RE 2 remake, it's a perfect well crafted remake, faithful to the original, focused on the horror, solving puzzles and exploration. It was released in HD with very great graphics and does everything a remake needs right.

It sold 10 million copies worldwide but barley half million in Japan. The original sold over 2 million copies in Japan and is among the all time third party best seller hall

I doubt anybody will have the nerve to say Capcom did a piss poor job with RE 2 remake

What happened then? Well, some might think there was a shift in interest and tastes among Japanese gamers who now prefer portable games and/or games that have portable gaming elements so a RE 2 remake is by definition absent of any chances of having a Japanese breaktrough regardless of how good a job Capcom could possibly do

It's not just a matter of having established IPs, although Japanese third parties still do have plenty of those.

Look at Splatoon; when it launched as a new IP in 2015 it immediately gained popularity in both Japan and the West. Ditto for Ring Fit Adventure in 2019. Whether its leveraging old franchises or starting new ones, nothing is stopping third parties from doing what Nintendo does and having appeal to both the Japanese and the West.