BulletMagnet wrote:
neorichieb1971 wrote:
PS5 is diving in Japan by all accounts. It was released to steal market share from Microsoft without actually having anything decent on it.
Microsoft has market share in Japan?
Figures show PS5 is doing about 15k a week, Switch is doing 250k a week. I didn't look at Xbox.
In November it did 0.2% of sales for the X and 0.5% for the S.
People in Japan want that mobile feature in the Switch, which is also heavily supported by Japanese Devs. According to reports Sony has dropped the ball on Japanese devs aiming for a more USA centric system.
I believe 1 Japanese title has been launched with Gran Turismo announced for the future. Apparently that is it for now. So if you like Japanese RPG's and other cartoon centric games you're probably not that interested in Sony PS5 right now if your Japanese. The report I read (can't find it right now it came up on my phone) didn't mention Resident Evil 8. Konami are noticeably absent, Namco and Taito haven't announced hardly anything if anything at all.
There is a blurb about switching the X and O around on the PS5 which might have upset a few Japanese since they have been used to the configuration since Dec 1994.
At the launch of PS4, it got released in USA first because Sony knew the Japanese market would ignore the Xbox series. Maybe they have taken things a bit too far on prioritizing the USA market with almost all launch games being USA developed. PS5 is absolutely huge as well, I Cannot imagine its popular being as big as a mini suit case.
Apparently a forced docked Switch pro might be coming out this year according to rumourville. If it supports 4k, has complete backwards compatibility with peoples current switch, it just makes sense that people will stick to a brand that has that crossover. Personally I believe its marketing genius. I actually have more games for the Switch than my PS4 now and I've had the PS4 since launch. I bought Switch Jan 2020.
My friend had a PS5 for a few days, he said the controller was the star of the show. When I watch footage of PS5 games I just see cinematics, when I see gameplay it looks tired and regurgitated. Like I've said a million times before there needs to be a balance of games that are long 40 hour adventures and those 15 minute burst of arcade titles thrown in the mix. If you gave me Ridge Racer PS5 right now I would be all over it like a rash, throw £500 on a PS5 and be over the moon. PS5 is powerful enough to give us a Daytona sequal with 40 cars, crashes and addrenaline rushing gameplay.. where is it?
What made the Playstation brand is absent now. We just have PC games in Playstation branding and that is the saddest thing about gaming i've said in the last 20 years.