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Nintendo Switch passes the sales of PS4 in Japan
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The switch having an ARM processor is very standard compliant, it's not harder to port to it than to ps4 or xbox feature-wise. Besides having to refactor some things to use the system's API (which you would have to do on PS4 and Xbox too) it's just the matter of hitting a compiler switch unlike the Wii U still sticking to PowerPC years after it was discontinued
Why people keep saying that the next target is Saturn, if the console only sold 5.5mi unities?
https://sites.google.com/site/gamedatalibrary/hardware-totals
Note: PC Engine and WonderSwan totals are a bit off due to what figures were taken (for PC Engine it include PCE, Duo but also the CDRom^2 attachment whereas for WonderSwan it is the total worldwide, the handheld was in fact distribute in Japan and a few other asian countries ).
Switch passed Saturn in Japan last September-ish.
And it had passed Saturn worldwide around October 2017.
While developers don't like being limited by hardware this hasn't been an absolute rule historically. SNES, PS1 and PS2 weren't the strongest platforms of their generation but still received the largest support
Is it foresight though? i don't think so. maybe Nintendo contacted them first. probably this is what happened because they also had a development kit before release and said that Nintendo supported them a lot.
my problem with the Falcom issue is that it seems tehy're still relying on Sony for Asian support. my question is, how long is that gonna last? Playstation is American now and I'm sitting here wondering how much longer is Sony Japan and Sony Asia still gonna get support when HQ shown they don't really give a shit? the long Falcom takes to transition to something else, the longer they're fixin to hurt. they should have moved to an agnostic engine a while ago, like Unity or some shit
Nah, you are joking right? Please be joking.
It will be true obviously, but even after all these years, the videogame industry finds a way to surprise me with bizarre stuff.
Ha, true. But they are one of the strangest of the bunch.
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i mentioned it by mistake in a post (i have edited it since) that saturn, ps3 and wii were the next consoles for switch to outsell. i mentioned it because here it lists saturn as having sold 10 million in japan, which i now realize is wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles_by_region#Japan
Using a "kiddy demographic" excuse is one of the most disproven things about Nintendo's Switches success, as it caters towards young adults.
I wonder how those censorship policies are working out for Sony.
Well their "not really giving much shit" has been 1000 times better than Nintendo's so far.
in third party support? nah, that's happened in spite of Playstation not being Japan-focused. PS4 is still the #1 console, if you're not locked to a system, it still makes sense to support it. it's why Omega Labyrinth is even releasing on the system in it's stunted form.
sinonobu is presumably talking about the fact that Nintendo just licenses to Maxsoft in most of SEA, who seem a bit crap.
Nope, sony doesnt have to give a shit because they are currently the number 1 console with the biggest install base. Thats why they threw so many smaller 3rd party devs under the bus with the censorship thing, they will continue to support PS4 regardless. Its kinda like sony at the end of the PS2's life, they were basically guaranteed Japanese support so lets make the PS3 even more of a nightmare to develop for we dont care.
oh yea, that. yea that makes sense. but as good as Sony is supporting that, my point is how long until they might pull the plug on that. though, I can see it staying up. hard to tell how Sony feels about that
What censorship thing? The one that's been rightfully targeting the sexualization of minors so far? Because AFAIK, the DMC5 stuff ended up being a non-story in the end.
The targeting the minors thing is fine, but sony has also censored VNs that had 18+ year old women, there was even a thread on this I believe. Regardless my point was those devs that made a niche on PlayStation for tht type of content had it put in jeopardy which hurt them, especially with the lack of proper communication on what was going on
Looks like some of JP devs are reacting to the Sony censorship rules by mocking.
Watch the Omega Labyrinth Life reveal trailer, which is mocking Sony's Western sensibilities (around 6:18):
if they're gonna whine about it, why even make a PS4 version?
Because they know that some fans will only buy games on a Sony platform. Cf hardcore Vita fans.
haven't sales of other games shown that many of them didn't jump ship to the PS4? and given the game seems to sell of the large tracts of land, wouldn't the lack of it further cripple the PS4's selling potential? a whole lot about this doesn't make much sense to me