Famitsu Sales: Week 27, 2024 (Jul 01 - Jul 07)

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RedKingXIII said:

zeldaring said:

We are not talking about what someone thinks is more fun. We are talking about quality here something like resident evil 4, witcher 3 remake or BOTW has much higher quality then something like super meat boy or momotaro cause of the budget, and size of team making the game. Example someone might not like nintendo games  but we should still  recognize they make quality games. Of course everything can be argued, and is subjective in the end. it's also just not that it's devs that earned their respect by making hit after hit for generations.

Quality =/= bigger budget...

I do agree the state of the PS brand in Japan is sad but there's no one to blame but Sony themselves. It's a decline happening since the PS3/PSP days, too. What I'm wondering is how bad can things get on the PS6, especially if the third party support on the Switch 2 is better.

I can still see the PS6 get all of the big third party titles as the Switch 2 will still be behind the PS5/Xbox Series X in terms of raw specs. How big the difference is yet to be determined. The problem would be how would the output be moving forward? Budgets aren’t going to go down, inflation or not. There are companies seeking bigger games and realistic graphics. Spider-Man 2 had a budget of hundreds of millions (even if you consider the licensing). That’s not feasible long term. We’ve seen games like Suicide Squad and Redfall fall flat on their faces. We’ve seen games like Starfield and FFVII Rebirth fall short of certain expectations, whether critical, commercial, or both. The industry is in need of a balancing act. We’ll see how things go..