Village picked itself up in Japan after the DLC with third person view. Japan is not a fan of first person it seems. clever of Capcom to have RE9 have it from the start.

Nothing really interesting about that imo. Tales of Berseria has been playable on PS4 for 10 years and playable on PS5 since it launched. It's been on countless golden week sales and flash sales for 4 to 5 dollars over the years. The original version was already in 60fps on PS5 as well and didn't need a remaster. In fact, Tales of fans are mad that Berseria even got a Remaster since fans are waiting for others instead like Destiny and Abyss.

Also with that, the PS5 version charted at #11 with 5,028 copies sold this week which is over 50% of the 9798 copies sold on Switch 2. A platform that this game was never released on. This actually goes against your statement saying that Switch built up a JRPG audience because if they did, it would have sold more than 9k for a "New" release.

True; Village also wasn't available on Nintendo, (until the release of Requiem, anyway) so this time around they have a wider base to sell to.

Where is the PS5 version of the Resident Evil 30th Special Pack?

I don't think there was one; the Switch 2 version was a special bundle of RE Requiem, 7, and Village, whereas PS5 didn't get this as 7/Village were already available on it.

There is

Biohazard 30th Special Pack (Multi-Language) for PlayStation 5

In that case, it simply didn't sell enough to make the top 30.

Japan isn't the west, there are a ton of Japanese third party games that sell more on Switch in Japan than on PS5, people seem to focus only on stuff like Resident Evil or Final Fantasy, we have stuff like Fantasy Life that sold 165k+ on Switch compared to 20k+ on PS5, as well as Demon Slayer 2 last year that sold 180k+ on Switch vs 20k+ on PS5. PS5 is mostly dominating when it comes to third party sales for some historically PS connected AAA IP, mostly everything else third party sell more on Switch in Japan. That is bad news for Sony, because it means many more Japanese studios have a stake in the Switch/Switch 2 being a success, while i guess PS5 doing well in Japan is just good for a few AAA game makers like Capcom in Japan, and for Chinese developers making gacha games.

Thats because the conversation is specifically about these IPs. Many of which were once Japans biggest titles. Quite a few people suggested their fall in popularity was a lot due to not being on Nintendo's platform, as opposed to the games themselves becoming less appealing to the market. As playstation has had a monopoly on AAAs up until now, the lack of interest in the platform (Especially PS4 which had a good price etc) indicates a weaker interest in the software it boasts.

If the Software is not especially interesting to the market, landing on Nintendo platforms isn't necessarily going to result in growth and that is kinda the point. It's very likely most who had interest in games like FFVIIR and RE, invested in a platform that can play it the last 2 generations. Some will be buying on S2 now instead of PS for portability and that won't equate to growth. Longevity can still play a role of course, S2 is not yet meaningfully bigger than PS5's userbase, and curious but uncertain audiences may not buy something week one. Audiences can grow etc but its pretty clear when something is of immediate appeal and we're not seeing that from AAA affair on Switch 2.

The change in narrative it seems

Guys just admit the decline of third parties had nothing to do with not releasing on Nintendo. Wii was an average success at best and Wii U was a major flop, and yet those third parties were already showing steady decline during PS3 and PS4 era. Switch was only released in 2017, this is a whole 15 years after many of those IPS peak in popularity


Those IPs will only increase marginally (if at all) with their release on Switch 2. The games that will sell well on Switch 2 are either new IPs or games already presented on base Switch, period