To add what has been said about Nintendo, the thing is that Japan has laws that make it harder for you to fire employees to save on cost. You have to look at every other method first and have no plausible alternative. That's among the reasons for Iwata's famous pay cuts.
If you want to point out Sony's Japanese, well Naughty Dog, Insomniac, and the like are not Japanese studios. So they aren't under the same protections.
Their game sales also seem to be doing well. Because frankly if Nintendo was having interest issues, I would not expect Pikmin 4 to be selling multi-millions because it is a Pikmin game. When Skyward Sword came out in late Wii, it sold that sort of numbers. So its more logical to say the Switch is still doing well to let Pikmin sell at the levels of low-interest Zelda periods than say, imply Pikmin is as popular as Zelda.
Nintendo is probably safest from the industry trends, though it is true they aren't guaranteed to be unaffected. They're also the entry point, as people tend to get, say, a Game Boy or a Switch as their first console, so people going into gaming seems to be moving along well. The problem is that it seems that a lot of gamers are going to PC next as an 'upgrade', not Playstation or X-Box.
The Democratic Nintendo fan....is that a paradox? I'm fond of one of the more conservative companies in the industry, but I vote Liberally and view myself that way 90% of the time?
