Otter said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:
This is not reality. (...) |
Except it is and and you've said nothing to negate Curls point. (...) |
Actually I did. Curl-6's main point is that the PS5's poor sales in both software and hardware are due to a chip shortage, and once the shortage ends, then sales will significantly improve. Look:
curl-6 said:
The current situation is the result of severe shortages, which will not last forever. Software will improve in step with hardware once the latter is no longer strangled by the chip crisis. Expecting the PS5's current performance to continue in the long term is not logical when the circumstances that are creating it are not everlasting. |
My point, in contrast, is that PS5 has serious troubles, because all of the top selling games in Japan are on the Switch.
Both curl-6 and I agree that PS5's sales are poor, but we are disagreeing on the cause. Big budget games, are actually irrelevant. It isn't the budget of the game that matters, but it's sales. Maybe Balan Wonderworld actually had an awesome budget? Who cares? It didn't cause the game to sell well. It's the sales of the games in Japan that will determine PS5's fate in Japan.
Almost all of the really big selling (3m+) games belong to Nintendo: Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Smash, Mario Kart, Splatoon, etc.... Switch even has a Monster Hunter game, and DQ12 will definitely be on a Nintendo platform. Switch has everything. That is the PS5's problem. The only game that will help it significantly will be MH World 2 and even after it releases, PS5 will not sell like PS4 did during the same time period. People are trying to make a big deal about FF16, when it won't even outsell the Kirby game that released this year. Kirby sells decent in Japan, but it is nothing compared to Splatoon, Animal Crossing and Pokemon. Likewise Final Fantasy in Japan is nothing compared to Splatoon, Animal Crossing and Pokemon. That is PS5's big problem. It lacks games that can sell like the top Nintendo games.
We already had a similar situation play out between 3DS and Vita. Vita got plenty of games, but it didn't have the heavy hitters that the 3DS had. PS5 is in a similar situation. It will get games, but they aren't going to sell like top Switch games. PS5 has the same problem that many losing consoles have had in the past. They just can't compete with the competition. It's not the chip shortage that is the PS5's main problem in Japan. It's main problem is that it is competing with the Switch.