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Nintendo Switch passes the sales of PS4 in Japan
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What does such a thing have to do with my statement saying that most third party games have not sold compared to NIntendo's first party titles?
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your statement doesn't mean anything if those 3rd party games don't sell that well on other platforms either. nothing in japan sells as well as nintendo first parties, does that mean everyone should just stop releasing games in japan? a game that sells 200-300K on ps4 can't come on switch expecting to sell a million copies.
I think you are misunderstanding my original point. First party Nintendo software account for a vast majority of software sold on Nintendo's machine because globally, that is Nintendo's attraction point for consumers, and in Japan its no different, the first party sales outweight the third party on the Switch itself.
The fact that they are beating PS4 sales with third parties and first parties is to be expected in that case.
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you said 3rd parties underperform on switch. you can only underperform when you expect to sell more than you end up doing. i'm just saying that's not the case for 3rd parties on switch in japan.
I think people are misunderstanding my termage and that's why i keep getting so many responses. I am saying third party sales sell far less than first parties. That's what i mean by "underperform". its by comparison to first party titles.
Ok, yea, thanks for the clarification. That makes more sense.
Sorry, forgot to reply. You definitely have a point, the schism has definitely had a hand in causing the Japanese market to decline.
It's a bit more even out (8 Nintendo games vs 7 non-Nintendo games) due to SquareEnix and Capcom big IPs (Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Monster Hunter) and Switch younger life compared to PS4.
The current japanese market situation for console gaming is very short of options.
If the game you want to produce can run on Switch there is no reason why a japanese publisher shouldn't aim for a multiplatform release on PS4 and Switch (and later PC too) especially because today multiplatform development is a common practice supported by the more popular middleware.
Only because Nintendo games sell a lot on Nintendo consoles, doesn't mean third-party games cannot be hit on Nintendo consoles.
They need to be desirable though which is the hard part (japanese console gaming is very stagnant).
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Man seeing Zelda on a top 10 best selling sales list in Japan still blows my mindIt's a bit more even (8 Nintendo games vs 7 non-Nintendo games) due to SquareEnix and Capcom big IPs (Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Monster Hunter) and Switch younger life compared to PS4.
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Because PC/PS4/X1 is still waaaaaay bigger worldwide and companies like Capcom concentrate on worldwide market?
Global arguments don't really work against Switch either though. It's selling huge in every region and if anything 3rd party software is doing even better in the west.
Switch is the only console that really serves the entire market well, both domestic and overseas.
Switch is about to pass X1 world wide and in only half the time
Malicious not disinterested
Disinterest is not releasing anything or just porting your old games across
Malicious is splitting up games other consoles get on compilation discs, then charging twice as much for dd versions
Japan is really big into handhelds, and even the Vita sold really well in Japan. Traditional home consoles are just not as big, so im not really surprised by this. I think that if Nintendo does release a smaller switch as rumored, that could be a big deal in Japan, making it more like a handheld, and less like a home console.
Nintendo also has some pretty successful franchises in Japan too, so lets not forget that.
Nintendo also has some pretty successful franchises in Japan too, so lets not forget that.
Im pretty sure he is saying combined considering they all have similar architecture making it easier to port to.
Its a little harder to port graphically demanding games to the Switch.
Also publishers aren't going to wait for PS5/Nextbox to have a bigger install base to support them.
Yea multiplatform games are going to be cross gen for a few years and by then switch 2 will be out
I have no clue
Selling better than the junk sales in other regions doesnt make the japanese sales not bad either
Declining from 19 million units for the PSP to 6 million for Vita is terrible
It's absolutely amazing and well deserved. I play my Switch more than ps4 or Xbox by far now. It's such a great console. It's very exciting to think what the future holds for this Switch and it's successor.
I think it's less the case that 3rd parties have underperformed and more the case that Nintendo has been CRUSHING it with their software.
Yeah but third party games on X1 usually are also on PS4 and PC. Switch can't keep up in the AAA space because of hardware limitations and that's why companies like Capcom don't publish everything on Switch. It's okay for older and less demanding games like Onimusha HD, Okami or Megaman 11 but not worth the downgrades for REmake 2, Monster Hunter World and Devil May Cry 5.
Oh wow, hopefully this means more support for switch 2 and switch late years
What?
Yeah this is a reality on the Switch no matter how much it sells, still a success story for Nintendo though, and whatever games it gets its good, its no ps4 portable
Maybe, just maybe, japanese 3rd parties doesnt need to make every game an AAA experience that targets the west?
Capcom has series like Ghost Trick, Ace Attorney, Okami that could get a new release that can launch on Switch and those platforms. The same is true about other 3rd parties
To be fair nearly everyone underperformed compared to the evergreens.
What? No! Half of the appeal of Playstation is Japanese support.
It would help if more cared. There is way too much fatalism about and indifference to the Japanese console market from big players for it to be in a better place.
Smart phones are a huge thing, needless to say. So are the actions of industry leaders.
it's going to be the only game atlus have released, 4 years into the switches life
and it wont be that big
So about on par with their ps4 output. Your point?
You're kidding yourself about Smt5. Yuge! Absolutely! Will definitely move switch consoles since it's exclusive