curl-6 said:
IcaroRibeiro said:
Playstation have a dozen of those type of games, more often than not they sell poorly. In fact the best selling Playstation games in Japan in PS4 and PS5 are mostly high profile with high level of graphical fidelity. The only exceptions I can think that sold over half million units with cartoonish graphics must be JRPGs Dragon Quest and Persona 5, which I don't even think are cartoonish, more like anime-ish if that makes sense
I believe the problem with your reasoning is people who like cartoonish graphics are all buying Nintendo, so they can play portableÂÂ
People buy Playstation for western games and high end games with good graphics. This is true in West and is also true in Japan. The key point is the audience for AAA games is small in Japan, maybe enough to move 6-8 million units. While in west the audience for this kind of game is just bigger
Also, liking cartoonish gameplay focused and game with high fidelity with focus in story are not mutually exclusive, you can enjoy both, likewise owning two consoles thet offer bothÂÂ
Case point, I choose to buy Octopath Travaler 2 on my Switch, simply because the game does not demand high end hardware, so with my Swtich I can play anywhere. In other hand I choose to get Hogwarts Legacy on PS5, because the graphical fidelity is better as well as performanceÂÂ
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You're focusing too much on just the graphics; it's more about where the emphasis lies, whether on gameplay and stylization or spectacle and being cinematic. There are simply not many PS exclusives that cater to Japanese tastes, and most of the multiplats that do are on Switch as well.
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Being gameplay focused and targeting high specs are not in any shape of form conflicting concepts. Sure Sony first party are story focused, but I can list a hundred of third party games from XBOX and Playstation that don't move a needle in Japan. I could buy the exclusivity argument, but they aren't selling on Xbox or PC either. They simply aren't popular
Ironically, JRPGs which are fairly story focused do well regardless of the platform. Maybe Japanese people have no problem with story focused games after all? I mean we are talking about the hometown of visual novels
