Sales wise none of the three first party titles you listed made much of an impact in Japan.
Let me guess, you're an expert on Japanese Culture, right?
You mean like was the case when Sony bought Psygnosis: the largest publisher in Europe at the time?
Always a good sign when the one example people have for this "Sony does the same thing" argument is from 1993, and the group in question has been defunct for 10 years. Not that you specifically mean it in such a derogatory capacity, but Microsoft has bought two major multinational publishers in the past 2 years, and if we do want to go back further in time it is well-documented how they tried to buy out Nintendo as well. Sony has not bought a major third-party publisher really ever, sans that Psygnosis deal almost 30 years ago.
If you want to know what is (currently) most successful in the PlayStation space in Japan, one only need look at the data, but ignoring the PS4 era for a moment, here are the Top 5 best-selling games on PS4/PS5 since the launch of the PS5 in 2020:
People thing these companies just go to Acquistizon and click buy now and in 3-5 business days they get their acquisition lol.
To an extent, yes, especially for a company that's not publicly traded. However, the second that shareholders and a board of directors are involved, then it becomes a lot more about money. There are offers that a publicly traded company can't refuse because they answer to the shareholders.
Some of us actually pay attention to history.
Oh I know it. Only reason I don't ignore is I need a good laugh every once in a while.
It was lowest bidder fiverr trash garbage. Basically just a middle finger to the IP.
Do you have a source for the fact that Psygnosis was the largest pub from Europe (no way they were the largest overall) in Europe in '92?
The source I've seen for this is a magazine scan saying 40% of PS1 games in Europe were from Psygnosis in 1995, which would have been 2 years after being acquired. I haven't seen a reliable source for this considering it's been posted a number of times.
Is Konami a good buy though? I mean, yeah, Konami has amazing dormant IPs but... does Konami even have development teams left? I don't think Sony would be interested if that's not the case. They care more about the teams, their culture, the talent, know-how, etc. That's the impression I get.
It is better than nothing, which is what you would have to counter.
The onus isn't on him to prove your point, that's now how this works
I gave my point, someone else gave where it comes from. If they have an issue with the information that has been given, and there is an entire screenshot of the magazine issue pages concerning this transaction on this forum. The onus is on them to come up with a 'better source.'
I think this is the hard truth and it makes me really sad. With the loss of the home console base there, a lot of the talented Japanese devs are gonna follow the audience and appeal to those sensibilities, which can be cool but really isn't my bag. That thread about Japanese 3D character art in the early PS1 days really made me nostalgic for that specific sense of priority.
A screenshot that is about the PS1 market in a time span where it went from 0 to 800K hardware units 2-3 years after the acquisition, so in other words something completely different than you claim.
Sigh!
lmao right. When it's really grey and is pretty much aligned and planned for a long time to decide how they want to run respective businesses and not just reacting immediately to stuff.
What has this to do with your claim that they were the largest pub in Europe in 1992? - Oh nothing, ok.
Talent is very hard to come by right now in many sectors so locking down some of the best around. It's one of the biggest pieces to success. If you can't ramp up resources in a timely manner for your games def can be screwed. And from what I saw today from GT7. Extremely high Quality,polish and establishing new industry standards is what sony is striving for.
I thought you were going to counter with some source. I am still waiting because I have seen nothing. My wager was that I would see nothing and I expect it to hold.
