How did they retake Japan so quickly?

Actually releasing videogames instead of interactive movies.

a companies success in the world of consoles has less to do with their own strengths and more to do with their competitors weaknesses. like the 5th gen.

this is a brainlet post

>put out a handheld console in the region where people primarily play handhelds while your main competition basically goes out of their way to say they don't want filthy jap money anymore

honestly not that hard

sony moved to california and started censoring japanese games
it has nothing to do with anything nintendo did

snoy will run out of aaa/aa games quickly, since japanese devs wont release so many games for ps5, then they will definitely make an sjw move like releasing some amerimutt tumblr garbage indies, bringing another trash sjw mutt media like sjw capeshit like kamala kahn, garbage mutt cartoons like she-ra, some netflix shit etc and will go down the toilet. sjws always live in bubble and they dont have any diverse outputs.

>Japan has been slowly moving away from large consoles in favor of gaming on their phones (Puzzles & Dragons, gachas, anime games, etc) for the last decade or so
>Japan fucking loves handhelds, as evident by the Vita still getting new games there whereas it's been dead for the last 3-4 years here
>Nintendo sees this and makes their console a hybrid console-handheld
>Shit sells like crazy since people can bing bing wahoo on their subway commutes the same way they can at home
>PS4 sales flounder as Sony transitions from being based in Japan to moving their offices to California
>Because of that move, certain policies have changed and makes the niche weeb games that were common on the Playstation family move to the Switch/PC
>SCE Japan (Wait, sorry. It's Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan now), the guys known for Parappa the Rapper, Wild Arms, Ape Escape, Legend of Dragoon, Dark Cloud, Shadow of the Colossus, Loco Roco, Patapon, and Gravity Rush, have been stuck making remasters/VR demos, shitty Astrobot games, and Knack 2 for the last 4 years
>SIE America has been in full moviegame mode for the last few years between Spider-Man, TLOU2, and Day's Gone, with the sole exception being Ghosts of Tsushima
>The PS5 is roughly the equivalent of $1000 USD in Japan right now, and with the only game that holds any interest to them being a remake there's very little people out there that would buy it at launch other than the most hardcore sonyfans/game collectors
>Microsoft has never been relevant in Japan outside of being an Idolm@ster console during the 360 era, and never will be relevant

tl;dr - Nintendo took a gamble that paid off, while Sony has shot themselves multiple times in the foot with a machine gun when it came to their home country

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this. The surge in sales late were sculpers, the PS jrpg king is done.

its a good thing the japanese market doesnt fucking matter because theres only 100 million of them and the demographic time bomb will kill off the bulk of them in 4 years.

Snoy could've remained in Japan if it made more handheld consoles that weren't total dogshit

Instead it moved to california and doubled down on consoles for burgers

By that logic the only European market that matters when it comes to gaming is Russia.

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europe as a whole can be treated almost the same. where as japan is a single small anomaly of a demographic that can and should be ignored.

Shame there’s like 6 games I’d want for the Switch.

Any other Japanese game is available elsewhere.

Your not wrong, but they also don't buy games so this is like saying Brazil or Mexico count somehow. EU in general is beyond shit on games anyway in all years of electronic entertainment existing. Only thing that really matter is the consumer USA because of the sheer bulk of direct buyers, at their worse making up 50% of all sales. JP used to be big on sales, but the last 10 years it's been heavily dwarfed as more and more people in the USA start buying shit for the sake of buying crap. You can't beat people just buying stuff because you did a few ads for it.

you are a true shithead. that would only make sense if japan didnt have any videgame companies. japanese market has its own special content and its always cultivated in their own market like souls series.

this is why netflix are trying so hard now to sign deals with japanese anime studios to make a bunch of their own anime series despite the scale of the japanese market. its not for the japnaese market. its for the globohomo market.

snoy just cut every connection with japanese. its a suicidal move but mutts wont ever aware of it.

>The UK is the same as Malta
>Switzerland is the same as Greece
>Sweden is the same as Portugal
>All these countries should be treated as equals
This is you right now, and it's baffling.

And by the way, that still doesn't denote the fact that the only countries that are ahead of Japan when it comes to buying games are China and the US.

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More like in the head

>Nintendo took a gamble that paid off
And now we get to see how the Switch 2 is handled, given how publishers are already dropping the platform in favor of PS5/XSX for titles which wouldn't be feasible to downgrade for Switch.

>how publishers are already dropping the platform in favor of PS5/XSX
Sources as so far from what I've seen everyone's treating the damn things as just "PS4/XB1 2.0" and not real upgrades. The press is talking shit up as if it is, like they always do, but I don't see any company's that wasn't already in bed with the previous systems suddenly jumping into the pool. If anything it's more a case of devs already fulfilling their contracts with Nintendo, and them not really offering new ones in turn being the problem here. Nintendo's not writing checks to get people onto it's hardware, and they kinda are just sitting on their hands expecting company's to make stuff for it because they've got the largest install base. Yet that's also because ATM Nintendo rather be doing DMCA's then worried about their systems profits.

It's just going to be Vita 2.0 where it ends up being the indie port machine and not much else that isn't permanently-delayed Nintendo IPs.

>>SCE Japan (Wait, sorry. It's Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan now), the guys known for Parappa the Rapper, Wild Arms, Ape Escape, Legend of Dragoon, Dark Cloud, Shadow of the Colossus, Loco Roco, Patapon, and Gravity Rush, have been stuck making remasters/VR demos, shitty Astrobot games, and Knack 2 for the last 4 years
The sheer insane stupidity of modern Sony laid out in one line.