There probably waiting for Square Enix or Capcom to bring the console the big sales.
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Japanese devs prioritize handhelds over consoles and even those are a dying market. Why should Sony waste money now advertising when most AAA games tailored for the region won't arrive till next year
Tamron said:
Was it a good descision for sony?, yes, yes it was. PS3 sales JP/US/EU Sales in the US were 2.5x that of Japan, and over 3x that of japan in the EU, focus on US and EU instead of Japan and what you end up with is clost to six times the hardware sales. Consider this, sales in just 2011, 2010 or 2009 in EU and US, any one of those years, sold more in just one year than they sold in Japan for SEVEN years, alternatively, 2009 to 2010 in US sold more than 2006 - 2013 in japan, as did EU. Japan is insignificant now, and you can't blame all that on "sony and nintendo abandoning Japan" they shifted focus away from japan BECAUSE of this. Believe it or not, the sole purpose of a company is to make money, who would have thought? It is realizing this shift in attitudes in their homeland that pushed Sony and Nintendo to focus more on the US and EU markets, not the other way around. 2) Don't compare 2014 sales to early 2000 sales, least not just on principal of the entire economy and taxing situation across the globe being completely different, thats before you even consider the impact of smartphones - tell me good sir, how many apps did you have on your smartphone in 2002? wait whats that now, you didnt have a smartphone in 2002?, they didnt exist? oh.. |
1. Japan is a smaller population, what were you expecting? Japan has always bought more units than their population would indicate, until recent years.
Did I say third-party devs abandoned the PS3? Where, please, did I say this? Third-party games alone will NEVER sell a console by itself, especially when most of those third-party games are relatively low-budget, niche games. It is up to the first-party devs to make quality content, and Sony couldn't do that. Period. They couldn't build up interest in their system by releasing quality games. If the west never got Uncharted, Infamous, Halo, Resistance, Fable, Gears of War, etc., I'm sure a lot of us would have moved on from console gaming.
What you're not getting is that there is a reason the Japanese buy more PS3s than PS4s, even now. Sony hasn't released any good content on the PS4 for Japan. They ignored Japan for the most part with the PS3 and still got a decent amount of sales from them. Japan isn't making the same mistake again.
2. And why the hell not? The US has smartphones. Europe has smartphones. The console in dustry is doing just fine in those countries.
Look, there is a reason smartphones replaced consoles. And it's because consoles didn't have nearly enough quality content to be economical.
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It's very much alive and no where near a niche genre quite yet, but I can't argue that it has lost traction in the west to WRPGs. I would say that's just because those WRPGs are flat out better, though. The JRPGs last gen all paled in comparison to Skyrim in terms of gameplay, with little to no real innovation. Square Enix, the people who have always been at the forefront of the JRPG genre and almost single-handedly responsible for any of the genre's success in the west, released an absolute disappointment with Final Fantasy XIII, and continued it by making it a trilogy with each game getting progressively worse. Not only that, but they were a no-show for arguably the most anticipated JRPG (Kingdom Hearts III), and they moved towards pushing western games like Tomb Raider and Thief rather than put most of their focus on Japanese titles. |
Yep. It's not that Japanese games suck, it's that many Japanese developers are simply sucking. They just can't seem to grasp how to effectively control an HD budget and release these mega-games in a timely fashion.
Though there is some hope. All these studios need to do is follow the likes of From Software and Kojima Productions. They don't follow genres, they create them!
Prediction for console Lifetime sales:
Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million
[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]
3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m
I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.
[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]
| SjOne said: Japanese devs prioritize handhelds over consoles and even those are a dying market. Why should Sony waste money now advertising when most AAA games tailored for the region won't arrive till next year |
Exactly my point.
Prediction for console Lifetime sales:
Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million
[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]
3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m
I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.
[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]
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VanceIX said: They focus completely on western games, most of which are your copy-and-paste Zombie or shooter or zombie shooter, with little to no JRPGs and other Japanese games that they built their legacy on. |
I didn't know God Of War, Gran Turismo, Infamous, LittleBigPlanet etc were zombie shooters. Actually Sony hasn't had a single Zombie shooter as far as I remember besides The Last Of Us.
People in japan tend to buy handhelds because they are always busy and want to play on the go during rush hour
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Ucell said:
I didn't know God Of War, Gran Turismo, Infamous, LittleBigPlanet etc were zombie shooters. Actually Sony hasn't had a single Zombie shooter as far as I remember besides The Last Of Us. |
They may not develop exclusively zombie shooters, but they push the zombie genre nauseatingly too much. They have The Last of Us, a Last of Us remastered just a year after it was released, an intevitable Last of Us 2, their upcoming zombie MMO H1Z1, and a huge brocrush for other zombie games like Dead Island.
"Who doesn't like zombies?"- Sony E3 2014
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Eddie_Raja said:
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Japanese devs are starting to prioritize mobile platforms over handhelds.
In a few years handhelds will be what console sales are now.
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