Famitsu sales Week 52, 2024 - Week 1, 2025 (23/12/24 - 5/1/25)

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Geralt99 said:

Damn, A lot of "Sony is doomed" and "Nintendo beating Sony" posts on this thread.
Guess a lot of people still haven't recovered from the fact that Sony have absolutely massacred Nintendo with PS1 and PS2 right out the gate.

Relax, Nintendo is at the top now and deservedly so.

As for Playstation's performance in japan,
Sony doesn't care about Japan and the Japanese have no reason to care about Playstation.
They don't have a single studio working on an IP that caters to the Japanese audience.
And to make things worse, they have significantly raised the price of the Playstation 5 multiple times which is now 2.5 times more than the Switch.
At this point it's quite clear that Sony aren't even trying when it comes to Japan.

Which isn't a good thing that Sony doesn't care about Japan

A lot of mid-range games from Japanese studios are skipping playstation either at launch or altogether as a result, and not only are western fans unhappy about that, they are blaming everyone but Sony for that.

We are seeing it with rune factory, professor Layton, last defence academy, and dragon quest monsters: the dark prince

In the past, shin megami tensei 5, monster hunter rise, harvestella, monster hunter stories 2, beyonetta 2, 3 and origins.

All those games have seen varying amounts of frustration at not being given a playstation port at launch or at all, but the anger is always directed to

Nintendo, for paying to steal games from playstation, and holding them hostage (I have seen people say those)

Or developers/publishers, who are being anti consumer, by choosing not to give playstation gamers these games

No one wants to hold playstation accountable for their failure in Japan as it affects a lot more then just their Japanese sales. It's affecting the developers who want to make games but if they have to choose what console to make it for, there is only 1 option now, and it's not the company that "doesn't care about Japan"