The currency conversion are certainly bs I agree there. PS5 games in the UK for example are wildly more expensive compared to the US and Canada.
Could you imagine this situation if Nintendo didn't bounce back? JP devs would be shitting themselvesIt looks like Hideki Yasuda has put out a follow up piece about PlayStation 5 shipments:
【月間総括】ソニーの「日本市場を大事にしています」を検証する
まず，前回の記事は大変な反響をいただいた。それを見る限り，日本のゲームユーザーはソニー（SIE）に対して静かな怒りを抱いている方が一定数いることが分かる。ここ数年，ソニー（SIE）は明らかに米国市場…jp.gamesindustry.biz
I was using google translate.... he does not seem impressed.
They would also be firing on all cylinders to try and help the situation
Yeah that's always the worst time of the year for Media Create Era :(
Everyday Today’s MENU for EMIYA Family – Fate Project New Year’s Eve TV Special 2020 gameplay
Aniplex debuted new gameplay footage for Fate/stay night “kitchen adventure” game Everyday Today’s MENU for EMIYA Family during the Fate Project New Year’s Eve TV Special 2020.
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Fate cooking game looks surprisingly good
Fate/EXTRA Record ‘Tamamo no Mae’ trailer
TYPE-MOON studio BB debuted a new trailer for Fate/EXTRA remake Fate/EXTRA Record featuring playable Servant Tamamo no Mae during the Fate Project New Year’s Eve TV Special 2020.
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Fate/EXTRA Record looks like a Switch game(PS4 was pretty obvious from the outset).
It depends I could easily see this...
...being the case. Right now they can afford to bide their time and wait for SE/Bamco/Capcom to build the install base of the PS5 first, but if it came down to it they'd probably be throwing their weight behind the PS5 right now.
Speaking of throwing weight behind the PS5, do we expect Persona 6 to be next-gen only or will Atlus go cross-gen? I suppose the fact that P6 is likely a long way out should help the case of the former, plus there's the possibility of a PC version to follow up on P4G & P5S.
Were it completely up to Atlus it would probably be PS4 only.
Wouldn't they go straight to PS5 by that point going off of your logic?
if they're getting SIE money, it's definitely hitting PS5. hell, might only release on that in the west
We're talking about the same company that would have released a PS3 exclusive in 2016 without Sony's intervention
PS5 only overseas I could see.
Yeah but that's a PS4/Switch game. 🙃
With P5 persona brand saw huge growth globally though. Maximising userbase with P5 made some sense as the franchise was still very japan heavy. With P6 there is no need for that. I mean maybe P6 will be also on PS4 but circumstances are different compared to P5 launch.
Other than new mainline SMT and Persona sequels (both loaded with incentive deals and adult reasons), that's sort of how I expect to see all Atlus releases go from here on out. Catherine FB was getting up to speed, P5 Strikers and SMT3 HD were clearing the way but Re: Fantasy and Etrian Odyssey will really cement it.Atlus:
I think the only reason P5S exists for Switch is because TK was adamant about it
PC maybe but it's clear Atlus was pretty fully onboard the multiplat train starting in 2020. The only games that won't be are the ones Sony or Nintendo pay not to be.
And after P4G Atlus seems pretty up on PC too. I think most of their stuff will hit that too now but for the western launches.
Especially as both Sony and Nintendo seem to be pretty okay with their third party exclusives releasing on PC later on (well Sony has started to release first party games too). So P5 (and eventual P6) and SMT V being released on PC at some point should be pretty given.
The math doesn't add up.
At this rate, the sale number for PS5 after 3 months on the market would be about the same as PS4 launch week sale number. I thought the purpose to launch before holidays is to get holiday sales and PS5 completely did not take any advantage of that. It might as well launch 3 months late in Japan and would probably get the same result.
I saw that comment 😂 It was meant to be a conservative estimate, saying what if only half of PS4 buyers want a PS5. Some people can't imagine that less enthusiast players will wait for software, price cuts, revisions, a bonus, a birthday, whatever it may be. It warps their understanding of demand.
Even longer to answer the 6m question, because weeks 52 and 1 will be combined at first too.
Yeah, I agree with that although they still seem to want a window in some cases. P5R PC seems like the next obvious chip to fall.
My biggest question is more on missing legacy ports, like if we'll still see P4G on PS4/Switch or all the Vanillaware games on PC/Switch?
Might be time to put more Gacha games on consoles then!
I do wonder how Genshin Impact is doing on that part though.
Shooting the messager, this is pitiful.
If one can't handle the truth, they might be a little too much invested.
A question here is whether that is due to the big service games being unappealing in Japan, and therefore there not being a big audience from which to profit, or whether it is due to the Japanese console audience inherently being less willing to spend more on service games. The big service games are EA, Activision and Ubisoft games, all of which are (and always have been) quite a bit less popular compared to ROTW.
In other words, is it because Japanese gamers on consoles reject service games, or is it because no one has made a big service game that is bound to catch on?
Yeah. No PS4 port for P4G was pretty weird to me. Obviously Switch too but with that it depends on does Atlus indeed have some deals with Sony regarding of Persona games.
Oh yeah. Like was correctly pointed out it's not like japanese consumesr avoid service games (as they are huge on mobile and with selected console games too) but when it comes to PS it's easy to see how on average Japanese PS owners probably earn far less money for Sony than western consumers. They buy less sw overall on average and ''wrong'' sw.
I actually didnt think genshin impact would take this long coming to switch, I figured it was right behind the PS4 version, I wonder how long they can wait until interest dies down
So Nintendo actually had more of a presence in Brazil during Wii U era? I know they had slip covers for most of their first party games there (with some exceptions, but it seemed to stop after Rio Olympics). These were of course printed in the US, but have the Brazil rating symbol and in assume Brazilian Portuguese.
Katsuhiro Harada working on most costly project in Bandai Namco history
Bandai Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada is preparing a new title with the largest development cost in company history, Harada said during the “Piro Live! New Year’s Eve Special 2021”…
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Harada's profeted AAA PS5/XBS/PC masterpiece is coming
Tales of Xenosaga incomingKatsuhiro Harada working on most costly project in Bandai Namco history
Bandai Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada is preparing a new title with the largest development cost in company history, Harada said during the “Piro Live! New Year’s Eve Special 2021”…
Harada's profeted AAA PS5/XBS/PC masterpiece is coming
If people like Patcher are still here with his years and years of BS predictions that always happens the exact opposite he says, I doubt we should ban anyone else for an article with some inaccuracies, TBF lol.
agreed, and it's not like the mods are gonna do it. still crazy that some people actually suggested that, imo.
Japan launch and like many other countrys even in Europe got paper launch, the main goal was to pass a message of global release while the focus was on the big markets were Xbox is competing, every other market will get enough stock by spring and that most likely will incluid Japan, it is a shame but it is what it is.
apparently Sony has some temp exclusivity as it's part of their China Hero program
Nintendo left Brazil around 2015 and it's only coming back now, but since the Gamecube era they stop being so present, the peak was during N64 with tv spots, soccer ads, official magazine (the magazine lasted longer). Sony more than filled that gap.
Nintendo stuff are known today as a rich kid product here. And to tell the truth, that's deserved.
Genshin on Switch could be a difficult port job, it is a very taxing mobile game and doesn't even look/run great on PS4
That's more of an optimization problem than anything. It runs very well on mobile