I've always put the most recent Disgaea on my "To Buy" list but never actually pulled the trigger. Maybe that will change with this one. Hopefully it turns out good.

Well I got 2 options.

1. Buy a Switch, which I planned to do when they price cut. (might not happen...)

2. or buy PS4 Japanese version and contribute to Famitsu with my 1 copy. It would be good Japanese practice I suppose.

Not too big a loss though. Although I do like Disgaea, I have to admit it is pretty niche and barely sell above 500K (at least on console, dunno how much PC adds). So no big loss for Sony.

I've heard a few possible options.

One is that Disgaea is avoiding some of the Playstation censorship recently. The 'Nintendo for boobs' take.

Another is that Disgaea's studio has financial issues a while back. While they have apparently recovered, it is possible that they needed a bit of help and Nintendo was able to give some in a 'regional exclusive' manner. Not a 'Bayonetta 2 wouldn't exist without us' way, but a bit of an extra boost out the door.

A third one I just thought of is that Japan tends to have longer tails for older systems. With PS5 coming out it might not be as worth it to release PS4 in their mind in the west, while more so in the east.

Hahah, thanks for the laugh.  

It's interesting that this particular game is exclusive to Switch in the West. Considering its popularity on PlayStation, I'm kinda surprised.
I guess I hope for PS fans that the PS4 version eventually comes to the West.
Its funny that people are up and arms about this. We've seen moneyhats and timed exclusives before. Rise of the Tomb Raider was met with some backlash when it was a timed Xbox One exclusive, but I honestly didn't get it. FFXVI and FFVIIR are timed exclusive, MHW is basically a PS4 exclusive in Japan (even though its on Xbone everywhere else). Persona (outside of 4 Arena and Q) is exclusive, even though 5 Scramble is a Switch/PS4 game and the SMT series has been in PS and Nintendo consoles.

It has to be Nintendo paying for the translation or something because if they have the game already made for PS4 and the translation for the Switch, there is no reason to not release the PS4 version in the west. Its not like PS4 games will stop selling in 2021, its still a console with a huge player base and the console where a lot (if not most) of the franchise fans are. Also, Disgaea may be niche but isn't Disgaea like one of the top dogs of the niche JRPG franchises? I mean 500k per entry doesn't sound bad at all, how much do the Atelier, Neptunia or Rune Factory games sell?

My guess is that this will eventually hit the PS5 and PC, but way down the line probably. I am loving the new graphics.

Yeah with the declining sales, it might be that they wern't going to do localization (or maybe text only), but then nintendo gave them money for that, casue nintendo usually isn't the type of company to monyhat third parties. usually its the third party coming to them first, or nintendo sees a company really stuggling. they don't moneyhat companies becasue they don't need to, even monhun being 3ds exclusive was more capcom's idea since the only reason it was on the psp was becasue the DS had literally ZERO chance of running a monhun game.

also, apparently so far for disgaea, in jp the ps4 versions sold way more because the switch versions being very late ports, while in the west the switch version sold more.

Looks good I'll be getting this at launch for sure.

I'm not surprised they are focusing on the Switch after the massive sales Disgaea 5 got on the platform but I expect it to arrive on the PS5 down the line.