Yeah, most western titles also sell "mediocre" by some standards. Giants like GTA, FIFA and CoD are the exception, not the rule. If you compare games to such juggernauts, anything will look tiny in comparison.
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Well I wouldn't say no one cares, but it is definitly less impactful towards the success of a platform. Look at the Vita and WiiU (Primarily Japanese) vs PS3 and XBO (Primarily Western). Without Major Western support WiiU and Vita could not gain traction. On the other hand PS3 and XBO did quite well even with less than stellar Japanese support.
Outside of Japan, Japanese games are niche for the most part. Western titles whether developed in Canada, The US, or Europe are pretty popular on both sides of the Atlantic, with some even having decent success in Japan.
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I guess Kingdom Hearts III is going to flop then.
Japan
Western countries.
Ka-pi96 said:
That's... a pretty strange list of western countries you've got there. Argentina and Chile are western, but not Brazil and Mexico? israel are western but not Turkey or Russia? Australia and New Zealand are western? And where are the rest of the balkan countries? |
Don't worry about the small things.
But I think Russian (world of tanks) and east europian games are included western games.
As an analyst he should know that raw sales numbers don't mean anything if the input value isn't known. A game selling 3.5m doesn't have to be more profitable than another game selling "only" 2m. Profit is not defined as selling as many units as possible. Also, he forgets that most games drop in price shortly after release. It's unclear how many of those 3.5m sales come from the time after that game landed in the discount bin.
On a side note, his argumentation skills are terrible. For me it sounds like: "It is like I said because I said so!"
Well that's no news, even on vgchartz their is only one Japanese game in the top 25 PS4 games. This days it is probably better for sales to have the advertisement rights for games like Fifa/Destiny than having an exclusive Japanese game.
"Yes, Japanese games don’t matter in the larger scheme of things, you are talking about 2 million units, I mean, a piece of crap like Mafia 3 sold 5 million units, and that game is a piece of crap. So, no, 2 million units is a rounding error, that doesn’t matter. No one is making money off of that."
Hes talking about Persona 5 here.... well screw you Pachter you dont know what your talking about.
Lots of people really enjoyed that game.
| JRPGfan said: "Yes, Japanese games don’t matter in the larger scheme of things, you are talking about 2 million units, I mean, a piece of crap like Mafia 3 sold 5 million units, and that game is a piece of crap. So, no, 2 million units is a rounding error, that doesn’t matter. No one is making money off of that." Hes talking about Persona 5 here.... well screw you Pachter you dont know what your talking about. Lots of people really enjoyed that game. |
If no one is making money out of that then why does Persona "5" exist?
PEEPer0nni said:
If no one is making money out of that then why does Persona "5" exist? |
Out of the kindness of their hearts? they make games for us fans? >_>
I hope their makeing something from it.
Its a shame so many people buy the next CoD no matter what, but dont give game series like Persona a chance.
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