| Tober said: . I think for Japan the top three was Genshin, Apex and Fortnite, if I remember correctly. All 3 are non Japanese games. |
So Japanese gaming market is indeed looking sad
I remember when Nintendo released their report years ago about profit from their mobile games, Japan brings a lot of money to mobile games, specially Fire Emblem Heroes. Contrary to popular opinion, they seem to be quite found of live as service games as well. They just do it more on mobile games rather than console games I guess...
Zeldaring has a point when saying Japanese devs are looking elsewhere because Japan is not cutting it anymore. Final Fantasy aside, many JP devs have shown steady growth everywhere but Japan. Atlus, Capcom, even Square. Japan seems to be down to one game of other eventually, like they did with Momotaro, but overall third party sales on consoles are in a historical low.
Hopefully the numbers on PC are enough to offset their decline on console spaces. I wish devs released more regional breakdowns. Elden Ring crossed 1 million after a few months of launch while the physical sales were only 400k. There are chances PC versions of multiplat games are outselling their Playstation versions this gen
Maybe Capcom can give us some light after Monster Hunter launch
