Famitsu Sales: Week 50, 2024 (Dec 09 - Dec 15)

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wohufana said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Now that DQ3 has been out for a few weeks, it's clear that the Switch's version is going to have much better legs than the PS5 version.  I know that is true in general for any game that gets released on both platforms, but this week the difference is 55k in sales vs. 4k in sales.  That's a huge difference.

Same scenario would have happened if the latest final Fantasy games (downgraded version of course) were released on Switch. Doesn't Square Enix want millions of Yen profit from Japanese gamers? That is a bad business decision on their part.

I think they made some deal with Sony to make the recent FF games to be Playstation exclusive (or at least timed exclusive), because they weren't on XBox either.  And some games get a deal from Sony to simply not be on Nintendo.  I can't think of a good reason why Metaphor ReFantasio shouldn't have been on Switch except that Sony made some kind of deal to keep it off of a Nintendo platform.