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curl-6 on 15 January 2025
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IcaroRibeiro said:
curl-6 said:

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.

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 never said graphics and gameplay were mutually exclusive, or that the Japanese just don't like story focused games. 

Just that if you compare Sony's exclusives, which sell well in the West but poorly in Japan, to Nintendo's, which sell well in both Japan and the West, those are the key differences.