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

[Sephiran]

Jules98 said:

Sephiran said:

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.

Sony has traditionally been good in locking down Japanese third parties to Playstation and get them to snub Nintendo, but it could be the case that the Switch era has finally made relations between Nintendo and Japanese publishers so good that the old Sony tactic can't be done this time around.