Japanese console gamers have good taste? The Pokémon game is mediocre. They basically buy brightly coloured family friendly games and Monster Hunter.

The west buys shooters, and Sports games. They also buy Read Dead Redemption 2(79m units sold), The Last of Us(20m+), Horizon: Zero Dwn(20m+), BG3(20m), Cyberpunk 2077(35m), the Witcher 3 etc. etc. They buy racing games like GT7 and FH5 and also full-on hardcore driving sims. They buy indie games in the tens of millions, like Hollow Knight, Stardew valley, terraria etc. 

The same sports games and shooters might sell well every year but there’s enough of a market for games of all types to sell millions, for something like Hollow Knight Knight: Silksong to sell 7m at launch and Arc Raiders at 5m+, just like HD2 last year which is approaching 20m now. In Japan there is like a dozen successful franchises and everything else feeds of the scraps, selling in the 10-50k range at launch. How much did Clair Obscur sell in Japan? 

Just depressing that we hit a 30 year low here. I think we’re finally starting to see the real effects of the way Gen alpha (and younger Gen Z) have basically abandoned console gaming for pc gaming. I’m genuinely worried for the survival of console gaming in 15 years or so. Which as a life long console gamer who vastly prefers it to pc gaming for a whole host of reasons, sucks hard to think about.

With all of that said though, I do think Nintendo was perfectly poised to have a massive holiday with S2 if they had tried whatsoever on the software end. It’s absolutely absurd to me they expected a Hyrule Warriors and Kirby Air Riders game to be the exclusives that would sell their new hardware for its first holiday season. That should’ve been their first party exclusives holiday lineup last year for Switch 1 on its death bed, not for their shiny new successor. 

Just depressing that we hit a 30 year low here. I think we’re finally starting to see the real effects of the way Gen alpha (and younger Gen Z) have basically abandoned console gaming for pc gaming. I’m genuinely worried for the survival of console gaming in 15 years or so. Which as a life long console gamer who vastly prefers it to pc gaming for a whole host of reasons, sucks hard to think about.

With all of that said though, I do think Nintendo was perfectly poised to have a massive holiday with S2 if they had tried whatsoever on the software end. It’s absolutely absurd to me they expected a Hyrule Warriors and Kirby Air Riders game to be the exclusives that would sell their new hardware for its first holiday season. That should’ve been their first party exclusives holiday lineup last year for Switch 1 on its death bed, not for their shiny new successor. 

PC content spending is down as well per the report. With the economy issues and crazy spiked RAM prices which are only going to get worse people aren't buying PC's either. If consumers can't afford a discounted console then they surely can't afford a new gaming PC. The current console and PC crowd is buying software sure but they aren't leaving console gaming to PC either. The majority can't afford at the moment to switch eco-systems which is why a good portion has even stayed on PS4 and Xbox one at the moment. 

Japanese console gamers have good taste? The Pokémon game is mediocre. They basically buy brightly coloured family friendly games and Monster Hunter.

The west buys shooters, and Sports games. They also buy Read Dead Redemption 2(79m units sold), The Last of Us(20m+), Horizon: Zero Dwn(20m+), BG3(20m), Cyberpunk 2077(35m), the Witcher 3 etc. etc. They buy racing games like GT7 and FH5 and also full-on hardcore driving sims. They buy indie games in the tens of millions, like Hollow Knight, Stardew valley, terraria etc. 

The same sports games and shooters might sell well every year but there’s enough of a market for games of all types to sell millions, for something like Hollow Knight Knight: Silksong to sell 7m at launch and Arc Raiders at 5m+, just like HD2 last year which is approaching 20m now. In Japan there is like a dozen successful franchises and everything else feeds of the scraps, selling in the 10-50k range at launch. How much did Clair Obscur sell in Japan? 

And what is the difference from the west? Look at European sales, only people in droves buying PS to play EA Sports FC. Its funny that Japan has such a bad taste just because they like Nintendo stuff while Europeans who only care about EA Sports on PS has such incredible gaming taste.

I think you're missing his point as Europe just doesn't buy EA Sports FC. He gave examples of Red Dead, The Last of us, Horizon, CyberPunk, The Witcher 3 etc. The line of thinking there is the "West" would include Europe as well as the US because the purchasing tastes are so similar there for gaming and is still West of Japan. For example CoD tops both the US and Europe charts at times.