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Considering you can buy gaming PCs at walmart and more than likely a parent owns a PC, it's statistically possible.
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Now post the US numbers for sales since they're the people who are actually buying Japanese games.
Arise hitting 1 million units globally in that short a time means Bandai will actually bring over the older titles to other markets where they will get more exposure.
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Tales of Arise sold 250k physical copies in Japan alone on PS (nearly 200k on PS4 and 60k on PS5), while you need 60+ countries all around the world to reach the remaining number for 1 million (and most of that seem to be apparently on PC/Steam). You do the maths.
Sumup is that Japan is still the main market for japanese games no matter how hard disingenuous sony fanboys try to spin a different narrative because of Sony's failure.
Sumup is that Japan is still the main market for japanese games no matter how hard disingenuous sony fanboys try to spin a different narrative because of Sony's failure.
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No it's not, stop being willfully ignorant, pull your head out of the sand.
The western markets buy shit in far larger quantity than Japan itself, and it's been like this since the PS2. It's literally why Sega, Capcom, Square, and all the other large japanese companies target the west now primarily. Nintendo even built a theme park in florida and are releasing a movie done by a western animation studio.
It sounds like you're getting your info from the resetera retards who are in their own little land of dillusions. Because holy fuck Legend of Dragoon was beaten out by Pokemon Gold and Silver and the western sales numbers were what pulled it into the black, and that was back on the PS1.
When Square says they're making Dragon Quest 12 for a western audience, that should really tell you where their priorities are. The west will buy these games and make them prfitable, look how much Kiseki has embedded itself in the western market since NISA took over.
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That's awfully hilarious coming from you, ignoring objective data from famitsu/media creates while living your own little fantasy world as proven in your +200 posts in this thread or elsewhere.
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The fact that bandai asked western fans "what old tales games do you want" is pretty major. As is NISA putting out the Crossbell games and the spinoffs all at once.
You're missing the far larger picture that these series and genres will go elsewhere and propagate, you don't need Japan's blessing. Having stuff just stay in japan has lead to the death and stagnation of way more titles than not.
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Nintendo did not build a theme park in Florida.
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That should be DeSantis' next campaign promise.
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A licensed extension where they have to pay for an agreed upon % of construction, upkeep, and repairs and have signed a contract with NBCUniversal. Is building a theme park.
It's the same type of thing that Epcot used to have with sponsored rides, those were not cheap and companies were required to pay for everything related to the construction and upkeep of the ride. When the companies pulled out of those agreements, the rides took a noticeable decline in quality.
Anyways that's the only way to get a 36 inch Wario doll.
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It's not, retard. Nintendo sold worldwide rights to the highest bidder, it was Uni, and Uni is putting Nintendo lands into parks that either already exist or were going to be built with or without Nintendo. And the first park to get the copy/paste land? Japan.
In this thread MM argues that three rides is the same as a whole theme park.
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I'm going to say it still counts because like anything, the rides are just the hook to get people into the place so they'll spend their money on overpriced yet elaborate food and very over priced (but within reason) exclusive merchandise. That's where the money comes in.
Besides it opened with only 3 rides with the planned expansion happening in waves. They've got a 10 year plan apparently. I mean it's probably been revised at this point due to corona, but with the movie tie-in bullshit They're not just going to let it wither and die as an experiment.
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There is an expansion pad, but it's for the DK stuff, which is the third ride. I don't know if they are putting Pokemon in the other park (replacing Kid's Zone like the original plan had Mario doing?) or what. It's very much in Uno's control and not Nintendo's, which is why the location ping-ponged between parks.
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I really find that hard to believe that there wouldn't be entire teams of brand managers on both sides overseeing brainstorming meetings and wanting progress updates with working prototypes and concepts.
Because selling the rights to IPs and then letting another company go willy nilly with it and getting free reign is not something that normally would happen. There would have to be a corporate checks and balances. Especially given all the retard ideas that Universal parks had in the past.
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That's a Blu-Ray player.
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Japanese-only games such as Momotaro Dentetsu, Crayon Shin-chan Natsuyasumi, Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2021 do manage to sustain pretty well on Switch on the other hand. Not every game also need huge sale numbers if their development budget isn't big in the first place in order to recoup the costs (Momotaro is for example "low-budget").
NPD doesn't provide hard data numbers (at least to the public) so there is not exactly any proof japanese games actually do sell more in the US compared to Japan as a general rule. VGChartz is based entirely on rough guesses therefore is not trustworthy. But even then, the market in a worldwide scale does seem to heavily favor both the Switch and PC as main platforms for japanese games.
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Every single major japanese company is pushing for global sales, it can't favor both switch and PC, because the switch is the odd man out when it comes to ports.
Atlus Stresses Importance of Overseas Sales as Persona 5 Royal Tops 1.8 Million Copies
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Since the switch is detached from the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, XSX, and PC it's the smaller platform to develop for since every thing else will use similar resources and can be shared much easier. The switch is the one where it takes more resources and porting from switch to higher end hardware and viceversa takes even more time. Square enix isn't even bothering releasing physical ports of Kingdom hearts because the system can't run it and you're getting a cloud copy which require servers to run.
What's going to dominate is everything that shares in the majority of similar developer pipelines so porting stuff from Playstation/Xbox/PC is going to be what's done for the majority since the switch won't be able to keep up once Xbox Series X and Playstation 5 enter their first full year being out. The switch isn't getting stuff like Elden Ring and the smaller releases of many genres always follow the big ones because the audiences want more of the same genre.
The switch has the least compatibility with Unreal 4 and Unreal 5 is not looking to be any different either. Now that's a major game engine that's very widespread and is used the world over.
The future of all Japanese games lie in western markets. That's their ticket to grow and expand and reach a wider audience, Japan hasn't been able to carry them since the PS2 and gamecube era. And this goes with every size game from large ones to small two man teams.
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They do plan on building a Nintendo Land in Florida as part of Universal's third Florida park, they haven't done so yet and we'll see whether Covid kills off the plans for a new park like the Great Recession killed Universal Studios Dubai, but for now at least it's in the plans.
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Park ETA is 2025 and they recently restarted ground work, I wouldn't count on it stopping now, its both too far along AND too far off.