No? They never will :)

The Japanese market is not viable outside of the same games. Sony would be wasting time focusing on Japan first.Are you not aware of the current climate? Japan barely bought White Knight Chronicles, Tales and Ni No Kuni. Why would they bother focusing development for Japanese games?

Oh yeah Bloodborne and Let it Die are Japanese games. Add Natural Doctrine (which everyone keeps ignoring), Deep Down, Soul Sacrifice and Gravity Rush.Freedom Wars is coming too. People always have a narrow view with threads like these just cause there is not an influx of notable Japanese games anymore..The market shifted last generation.

So you're saying that because the ps3 was so expensive, Sony literally pushed all the consumers onto the ps2, damaging developers and image which then made all the consumers buy mobile?

Could it instead be true that Japan has always held more interest in handheld and mobile (judging by their phone market since the 90s), and that ps1 and 2 were simply great (smaller) PC alternatives, and now that smartphones have grown in ability and convenience with the power of a console, and the adaptibility of a pc, they've simply eschewed pc, handheld, and console for the mobile market?

So was it Sony who killed the japanese console market? Or was it apple?

Notice that smartphone introduction to Japan happened right around the same time as the ps3 debut.

Bonus points: Respond without blaming Sony for pushing people onto the emerging revolutionary product "the smartphone".

The japan problem is complicated. And no, they haven't just gravitated to handhelds, handhelds are just wheer the games r for them right now. but this is what is happenning in japan now.

• HD develoment is expensive, like 5 times more expensive than SD development. 
• Jap devs don't think like wetern devs, they want there to be large install base first before supporting a platform. That way they can guarantee sales and profitability. 
• Gamers will not buy a console until there are games to play on it and since the jap devs don't wanna make games til there are gamers that have it...then yh.
• so they make games for handhelds and the jap gamers buy the handhelds cause the games are on it.
• lastly, the japs aren't big on majority of the genres that we play over here in the west.

Simple, Japan prefers handhelds

lol I like it when someone uses the word "abandon". Like when someone says "literally" when their sentence isn't literal at all.

Like Sony decided to pack up, and leave Japan forever. Their offices are now barren, papers and computers left suddenly to slowly degrade from future years of neglect. Sony is currently on a fleet of ships sailing the ocean to find a new country to set up shop.

Please excuse my train of thought, just find the use of certain words funny.

Well at E3 it seemed like they were trying to appear as Western as possible. Doubt that will be the case at, say, TGS.

Wait till tokyo game show then decide.

I think Sony just realized the market isn't there anymore, and decided to focus on Europe+US.