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They chose those symbols and placed them where they did (to emulate a SNES with its A/B placement) on purpose, and the Japanese audience intrinsically understood it. X and O weren’t arbitrary symbols when they were chosen- in Japan, they use an X the same way we do to say “cancel” or “incorrect” (like the X button to close a window in Windows), but they use a O to mean “confirm” or “correct” where we might use a check mark. But rather, it’s something of a symbolic betrayal to that audience. The button mapping itself isn’t a huge issue, practically speaking. It isn’t so much about “oh, now they have to undo their muscle memory”. For Japanese players, that seemed to be a big deal. Oh, and the fact that they alienated a huge part of their Japanese player base by switching the X and O buttons in Japan.

Since Uncharted/TLOU/Horizon/GoW blew up in the last decade, these big, safe, mainstream, accessible, highly polished blockbuster titles became Sony’s focus, as evidenced by the fact that they moved their headquarters to California. The stuff you’re describing is a very real problem, at least for people who like the kinds of games that those of us on this subreddit tend to like. These are other conversations entirely, but they are trends that concern me. Nowadays it feels exceedingly more and more like Japanese games are just developed for a niche, and the budgets get smaller and the pandering/desperation of the niche developer gets worse. I can’t help but remember just 20 years ago when Japanese games were the mainstream releases- everyone with a PlayStation played Resident Evil, FFVII, MGS1, etc, and those were the standard when it came to sales and critical acclaim. I also understand I’m in a minority of modern Western gamers who share that opinion. I’m biased, I like a weird, unpolished anime game more than a massive AAA “prestige” title 9/10 times. really uncomfortable as someone who grew up on Japanese games and generally finds them to fit in my “favorites of all time” lists. This whole thing (what you described, not just this one story in isolation) makes me feel. But that probably wont happen unless the heads of PlayStation get replaced by someone who is willing to give the Japanese market a second try, but the current heads won't be replaced for a long while. I'm still pissed they gave up on Japan, again, they could do well if they tried, and I hope that one day, even if its far away, they do try again. And while Sony's only Japanese studio has been re organized and will almost definitely not put out an JRPGs, most companies will still put their JRPGs on PlayStation since its the largest gaming brand worldwide if that's of any reassurance. And to be fair, the PS5 is selling out in Japan, yes it is way behind the switch in Japan but's partly due to Sony barely giving Japan any units, they give Japan what, 50-100k units every now and then, but those all sell out. The Ps Vita which is considered a failure by many, sold almost half of its 13 million units in Japan, its sales are pretty close to the PS4, if it was actually supported I have no doubt it would've surpassed the PS4.

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I would expect to see more stuff like this going forward, especially while we're in the awkward transition period where the PS4 is old tech but the PS5 isn't widely available.Ī part of me hopes that Sony will one day try again with the Japanese market, they can do it if they try. It's still coming out on PS4 digitally everywhere and that's where most of the sales are going to be for something like this.īut man, it's been YEARS of Switch dominance in the Japan market now.

It's one niche game getting only the physical version canceled in a single release territory. I would probably do the same thing.Īnd this is from Square Enix! They have HISTORY with the Playstation brand.Īnyway not to blow this out of proportion or anything. So when I see news like this that a fairly niche release is choosing to only put out their physical version that can be sold at retail on Switch.

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It's not rare for the entire top 10 software to be Switch games. Obviously the brand aint dead.īut you look at the retail sales charts there every week, Playstation is SUCH a distant second. There's not enough supply just like everywhere else and there's been some stories about stores getting mobbed when they get retail stock. On one hand, the demand for the PS5 is NUTS. Man, I don't know what to make of the Playstation market in Japan right now.

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