| Sephiran said: They have tried, but their decline in Japan shows how vulnerable you can become when the selling point of your console in a country is just third party games, all their first party games are made in the west for mostly western markets, so when the Japanese third party games that used to sell people on PS in Japan like Final Fantasy are in steep decline there, that left them with no answers to Nintendo in Japan So PS is mostly a victim of Japanese gamers changing taste over the years, a few decades ago something like Animal Crossing was an ultra niche game on N64 in Japan at the same time Final Fantasy sold people massively on PS1 there. |
I agree with you. Sony own internal studios have a terrible track as well. Sony was a brand built on the backs of Square and Capcom. Neither are releasing earth-shattering hits in Japan as they once did in the 90s. The decline of those games in Japan started by the end of PS2 life/start of PS3 life with DS taking Japan by a storm, and the fact is Sony never really recovered the lost market share
Vita was released and it could be moderately successful in Japan eventually if it had a proper Monster Hunter, but it bombed so hard elsewhere it became impossible to keep the console afloat. By the early 10s smaller third parties at the time were refusing to create games for PS4 and wanted Sony to keep producing PS3 (long dead console that never really take off in first place) and Vita, simply because those consoles were cheaper to develop for
Sony was slowly becoming a brand to play AAA games and western games, and even this niche they are losing to PCs since the end of PS4 life
