| DekutheEvilClown said: Japanese console gamers have good taste? The Pokémon game is mediocre. They basically buy brightly coloured family friendly games and Monster Hunter. The west buys shooters, and Sports games. They also buy Read Dead Redemption 2(79m units sold), The Last of Us(20m+), Horizon: Zero Dwn(20m+), BG3(20m), Cyberpunk 2077(35m), the Witcher 3 etc. etc. They buy racing games like GT7 and FH5 and also full-on hardcore driving sims. They buy indie games in the tens of millions, like Hollow Knight, Stardew valley, terraria etc. The same sports games and shooters might sell well every year but there’s enough of a market for games of all types to sell millions, for something like Hollow Knight Knight: Silksong to sell 7m at launch and Arc Raiders at 5m+, just like HD2 last year which is approaching 20m now. In Japan there is like a dozen successful franchises and everything else feeds of the scraps, selling in the 10-50k range at launch. How much did Clair Obscur sell in Japan? |
Nah the best selling console games in Japan are highly varied. In their list of best selling weekly and all-time titles, have life sims (Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing), RPGs (Final Fantasy, Pokémon), platformers (Mario Odyssey, NSMB), party games (NS1 Mario Party games, Wii Party), and even open world RPGs (Elden Ring, Zelda BotW/TotK, Minecraft). They’re mostly similar in their more “cutesy” artstyle, but that’s how they like their games. Nothing wrong with that. Same deal with the west and photo-realism.
I prefer this over CoD, RDR1/2, GTAV, FIFA, Madden weekly dominance any day. (Granted, I am a Nintendo gamer… so maybe I’m a little biased lol.)
Anyways, thread is getting derailed off a light-hearted comment. Feel free to respond, Deku, but I’m bowing out after this comment.
