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

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Farsala said:

Pinkie_pie said:

Yeah I'm confused why big Japanese developers are still making games for Playstation. It's not like they are releasing their games outside Japan 

And then there is the Xbox with 1/10th the install base of Playstation, but Japanese developers still make games for Xbox. Man Japanese devs must be stupid, when they don't even release their games outside Japan.

No. they don't.

Many japanese games (apart from Nintendo ones) are never launched outside Japan. 

Japanese companies develop for Japanese taste and market 90% of the time. More specially the 2nd and 3rd row companies.
Switch is starting to become the only platform they really use. Even the bigger ones, like Konami, Square Enix, Sega, Bandai Namco or Capcom only publish very limited number of games outside Japan every year, and when they do that, those also appear in PC... or they just make exclusive smartphone games. No exclusives for PS5.

Yes, they publish in Xbox some games, cause One and Series are basically a PC, like PS4 and PS5 are. Just cause that. Very easy and cheap to adapt.
But PS5 games in the japanese weekly top 30, in the fifth year of PS5, are basically residual.