Famitsu Sales: Week 42, 2024 (Oct 14 - Oct 20)

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Sephiran said:

jvmkdg said:

Sony will have to do something in Japan, it is not possible that they are happy with these sales figures. The price of the ps5 is very high, if the production cost is high they will have to subsidize this amount. I'm predicting that the price of switch 2 will be $400 and it will sell less than switch 1

I could see Sony going all in on trying to lock down all big third parties into not launching their major games on Switch 2, ie no Monster Hunter on Switch 2, no new Final Fantasy on Switch 2 etc. No way they would accept losing the only advantage they have over Nintendo in Japan and risk Switch 2 getting all big Japanese third party games.

They already tried that with Final Fantasy, and it turned out disastrously for Square-Enix, with both FF 16 and FF 7 Rebirth underperforming. I doubt most third parties will be willing (or able) to accept such an exclusivity deal anymore, especially for IPs that are Japan-focused.