| IcaroRibeiro said: 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 |
While true the is a bit more behind it as tastes changed yes but that is a straight forward problem they could navigate with some effort the major issue was the change in gaming habits this is a strong factor in why PSP became a thing to begin with, portable platforms were becoming a better fit for Japan's gaming habits and Sony saw this and did make moves to tackle that with PSP and Vita but this came with a host of new problems they didn't anticipate as it was entering a new market with new factors at play with the most notable being how hard it was to support two platforms at once something even Nintendo themselves in the end couldn't go on doing albeit they solved the problem.
The move to be the brand for AAA was understandable as a result the problem is that back then they at least kept Studios like their Japan Studio to put out titles that had potential to be hits in Japan for example why Gravity Rush was never pushed as a major IP is something that is baffling and it's the same case for most of Studio Japan's games which is bizarre considering their output.
