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FF7 Rebirth was Japan's no.1 selling game for March. Ampere data suggests it has sold around 2 Million copies. |UP| Analysts says it's underperforming
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You're talking about something from 3 decades ago, Japan hasn't been relevant in a very long time.
Even during the SNES days most sales came from America
It's wild that people pretend japan is not a relevant market just because the switch and mobile dominate there now. It's still a top 3 video game market worldwide.
For context the Ps2 sold 160 million worldwide. Even if 25 million were in Japan that's still a very small fraction.
Countries like China have way more potential for the brand.
My brother in Christ, the ps2 is like 24 years old now, almost 30 years!
There's no context to be made here, your outlook is simply wrong lol.
Japan is still the 2nd or 3rd biggest console market sales wise. PlayStation brand declining there does not equates to the market being irrelevant. That's a failure on Sony's end for not adapting to a changing landscape they once tapped into and sold almost 20 million portables.
In Terms of mobile revenue alone China dwarfs Japan by a very large margin, if we include consoles which are fast growing in China and PC then it's not even a competition anymore.
Europe while it's an entire continent is already ahead of Japan.
South America,rhe Middle east and the rest of Asia are fast growing markets as well.
Japan might have been relevant 30 years ago but it won't be the case for much longer.
There's a reason Sony is investing heavily into China,India and Korea and hopefully into south America in the future.
They are investing heavily into those markets because they are emerging console markets and they want to establish dominance there and secure local talent.
Japan is still not irrelevant. And I dunno how you can compare Europe to Japan. There's still not a single market in Europe that sells as many PlayStation consoles as Japan lol.
Europe has different tastes, Gran Turismo still gets most of its sales from Europe and Fifa is very dominant as well.
Europe also loves Paradox RTS games, Sony should definitely invest in studios like that.
For the longest time Sony neglected Europe with really late ports sometimes not even releasing certain Games in Europe (us Aussies have it even worse though we still don't even have PS Plus Premium)
I finished the game at the 128th hour. I
I would love to go for the platinum, but sadly, I struggle so much with the combat system, which frustrates me a lot. It’s not the game’s fault, I believe.
Don't give up! There are some pretty good YouTube videos on how to beat the VR challenges or the bosses on Hard "easily".
You can also re-play one particular side-mission to quickly grind to max character level in seconds and the most tedious materia with a few replays of the same mission.
I've realised over time that japanese people just have horrible taste, look at the most popular anime there and it's all rubbish tier isekai.
Souls games don't sell well in Japan, Japanese would rather buy generic otaku slop instead.
There's surprisingly a lot of countries that still don't have it. It's beyond ridiculous at this point.
