Sephiran 1 day ago
Regarding Sony's decision to go all digital: I don't think the Japanese console market is at all ready today for all digital consoles when it comes to mass market appeal. Not only due to culture, second hand market, but the high medium age of Japan means that a big part of console gamers there are in their 40s-50s, they won't change their gaming habits in that age.
The fact that Switch 1 games broke all time retail sales records in Japan shows how heavily retail slated console gaming still is there. In other markets it would be impossible for retail sales records for console games to happen in modern times, but that is what happened during the Switch 1 era in Japan.
