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Forums - Sales Discussion - Famitsu sales: Week 14, 2021 - (Mar 29 - Apr 4)

animegaming on 15 April 2021
Otter said:
animegaming said:

The problem with Sony money hatting Dragon Quest is that it only really moves consoles in the Japanese market and Sony isn't really invested in the Japanese market these days, it's why Studio Japan was significantly shrunk.

Hell, I can see Nintendo being the ones to money-hat it, especially if they promise to help with the localization to make it a worldwide release.

This isn't really true though. Japan studios have not had a  hit in japan for decades, sonys western studios have actually had bigger success' (TLOU/Spiderman/Horizon/GOT). Japan and japanese games are still important for sony, but they're not interested in making it in house. Dragon Quest is not a huge seller in the west but it is a good seller. Establishing Playstation as the place to be for JRPGS can really sway millions of consoles and 10s of millions in software, so its not trivial.

But I agree with your later point that its equally likely (if not more so) that Nintendo money hats it and does a localisation/publishing effort as they have done for several SE games in the past including DQ9 (publishing & marketing it in the west)

Jason's article flat out mentions that part of the reason why Studio Japan was closed was due to not wanting games that only do well in Japan.