| curl-6 said: For some years now, most Japanese gamers simply haven't owned the consoles where mainline Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, etc release, so interest in those series has waned; there's still some audience for them, yes, they just haven't been on the country's dominant console(s) for 3 gens now. MH World and such did well enough by the standards of their install base, but they were still only available to a minority of the country's console audience. |
IMO the common mistake with this logic is making the "not owning" a playstation part sound like a coincidence versus a very informed result of not being overtly interested in said games or at least modern iterations. And its not like these franchises were not on the DS/PSP
But in any case we shouldn't count our chickens before they hatch, we haven't actually seen how games like RE9 and FFVII Remake perform on Switch 2, but plenty of games do not need nosltagia to perform well on a platform. See Forza on PS5, any new IP on any platform or even old IP that suddenly have a breakout hit (Zelda BOTW). If its appealing it will perform well.
