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technikarp t1_j1k2ujc wrote

Reply to comment by Daedelous2k in Why Call of Duty game matters to the FTC in Microsoft-Activision deal by Sorin61

Japanese dev shop making Japanese rpgs for Japanese audience for a Japanese console. Can’t complain that they aren’t making games for some other country’s console that has no market share to them.

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BababooeyHTJ t1_j1kpj3k wrote

Dude Final fantasy has been a mainstream franchise for well over a decade at this point. This isn’t back in the day where it would release in Japan a year before anywhere else with poor translations.

I’m not so sure it’s the Japanese market is it’s target audience. SIE is also headquartered in California….

This isn’t ff7 on the ps1 sadly. Whatever the current company is it’s the Squaresoft that I loved

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somegridplayer t1_j1lpe3p wrote

>Dude Final fantasy has been a mainstream franchise for well over a decade at this point.

2 1/2 decades. Square Enix is happy with PC and Playstation.

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Bradfromihob t1_j1kwamf wrote

Hate to break it to you but final fantasy is more popular in Japan, gets realized in Japan first, and is primarily supported for the Japanese’s community. Yes the Franchise has worldwide appeal but it’s made for Japan.

Same with monster Hunter to a lesser extent. We get the game months after Japan. There aren’t even dual releases. This is kind of a “America is the center of the world” argument.

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BoxOfDemons t1_j1l3cek wrote

Looking at what sales numbers I can find, even back 20-25 years ago the US was selling almost as many FF games as Japan, and today some games sell more here than Japan depending on the title. Then for nearly every game that has world-wide sales listed as well, it is 3-4x the total Japan sales. Even if a game sold 1/4 as well in the English market than the Japanese market, that's enough profit to pay for a translation. Translations are a fraction of the total game production costs. Japanese gamers per capita love Square Enix WAY more than Americans, but America has a massive population advantage.

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Bradfromihob t1_j1l4b67 wrote

Who gets the game first, who plays the games longer. Statistically its Japan. Why do games come to the us? We have 3x as many citizens, and don’t limit things like games. The facts are that these games are funded and popularized by Japan first then come to the US months or years later. They would never be just released here first cause chances are they wouldn’t be as popular. Singular sales numbers are not the best metric you can use. Or even the only metric you should use.

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Otaku_Instinct t1_j1l8evh wrote

"The Japanese market is no longer sufficient for achieving a level of earnings that enables us to recoup our development investment and generate a profit, and we therefore need to approach our development efforts based on the assumption that we have to succeed in the global market."

-Yosuke Matsuda, Square Enix President

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leftnut027 t1_j1kwvk8 wrote

Other countries console?

My brother in Christ the PC is literally the most universal gaming device in the world.

Are you seriously under the impression no one in Japan uses COMPUTERS?!?!?!

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technikarp t1_j1m67dq wrote

Xbox only has .06% market share in Japan. Nintendo and Sony have 99.94%. Just looked it up. Pc gaming only starting to gain popularity, but it’s all about the mobile market there.

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TheChrisDV t1_j1k3l1x wrote

On top of that, the Final Fantasy games released on Xbox haven’t sold well - even in the days of the 360, most of their sales were on PS3.

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Calm-Zombie2678 t1_j1lqvzn wrote

Tbf name a good ff game on 360...

... no, I'll wait

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TheChrisDV t1_j1lrs8f wrote

I mean, let’s not act like FFXIII didn’t review well at launch.

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Calm-Zombie2678 t1_j1lrwwd wrote

Did it?!? I may remember that differently but I also went in expecting a continued slide in quality after 12

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