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JohnVG 1 day ago
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Pinkie_pie said:
JohnVG said:

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. 

I don't even know if you're joking or not but those devs you mentioned, they release all their games worldwide. Most of the best selling games like tekken, street fighter , resident evil, monster hunter, sonic, Persona, Elden Ring released on xbox not on switch. None of the japanese devs besides Nintendo will ever ignore playstation or even xbox because Japan isn't the only country that sell games. It's not even the largest gaming market

I don't know in what reality are you leaving... but I saw A LOT of those game series (Persona? are YOU joking?) in Switch, and in many cases selling better than in PS4 and PS5, and of course Xbox. And they probably will continue to sell better in Switch 2. Expect a Metaphor port for it, for example.