Why is Sony so complacent to let the PlayStation brand completely disappear from Japan?

Japan doesn't have american enough values so it must be destroyed.

Because this is a bizarro timeline.

>Why is Sony so complacent to let the PlayStation brand completely disappear from Japan?
Because unlike you retarded faggot weebs, Sony has realized that the western market is far bigger than Japan's puny island where they prefer to play the same JRPG garbage over and over again with little to no innovation (and successful innovators like FromSoft/Miyazaki being exceedingly rare)

Japan is a dying market - smartphones have already taken up a giant portion of the Japanese market so Sony would have to sell nip-addicting gatcha casual shit on a Playstation branded smartphone to gain any relevant market and obviously they wont do that.

>Sony would have to sell nip-addicting gatcha casual shit on a Playstation branded smartphone to gain any relevant market
And said phone would sell way better than any of their Xperias. I don't see the problem.

>with little to no innovation (and successful innovators like FromSoft/Miyazaki being exceedingly rare)

lol, the fuck are you talking about

I'm a PS4fag but Sony's western games ARE the most fucking generic shit possible, them having have high production values doesn't change this.
Sony's only innovative games are all Japanese (Gravity Rush, Death Stranding, Last Guardian, Astro Bot, Shadow of the Colossus, Soulsborne series), Dreams is pretty much the only "innovative" wetern game Sony released and it's literally just a game maker.

and this isn't just sony, this goes for the whole market. The west makes way more generic, samey games just with big, realistic production values, they are shitting out these games nonstop every year, meanwhile Japan only released a few big budget JRPGs this entire gen, all of which are drastically different from each other

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How anyone can say japan is a dying market and then look at how well nintendo is doing there is beyond me. People here also thought the switch would do badly, precisely because of the reason you mention with smartphones.

Also the idea that western games innovate while japanese games don't is hilarious.

Because home consoles were never as popular as portable consoles in Japan, and the Xperia Play, the PSP and PS Vita are all dead. Smartphones have replaced portable consoles and it's all freemium gacha shit that's utterly soulless, especially in Japan.

It would have been cool if the Japanese smartphone gaming market had loads of strategy games, VNs and RPGs like the PSP was famed for in Japan, but no one is willing to pay full game prices for what is perceived as just being "an app".

Because western goyim are easier to shepherd

We got cocky and promoted too many EU devs to real positions and now were lacking in leadership.

Look at the state on NG, they were pumping out a game every year for 7 years straight, then TLOU2 is announced after Druckmann gets his promotion, now it 6 years later, lots of delays, announced they have taken out multiplayer too etc, it's a real worry for the PS5.

you think they like that? being known as a kiddie toy manufacturer. how the mighty have fallen.

By NG I meant ND, Naughty Dog, just the tip of the iceberg too, the entire game department basically got given back massages after this gen was won and now everything is already over budget and not near finished.

Besides TLOU2 that is finished but Sony won't release because there will be a massive loss if its digital only since ND wasted so much money.

OP explain to me what Japanese people who DO want to play modern games like MHW, Sekiro, REmake 2 and DMC5 will play those games on. Go on i will wait and laugh at any reply that is not the PS4.

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Sony put too much trust in game devs

Looking at japanese forums, they all hate how westernised all those games you listed are.

I remember when RE7 came out, they were fuming that it was first person. Japan does not like first person games. It took years for them to adapt to a controllable camera too.

>Why is Sony so complacent to let the PlayStation brand completely disappear from Japan?
wut how did you come to that conclusion

>and this isn't just sony, this goes for the whole market. The west makes way more generic, samey games just with big, realistic production values, they are shitting out these games nonstop every year, meanwhile Japan only released a few big budget JRPGs this entire gen, all of which are drastically different from each other
there were those pics of "popular western games vs popular japanese games" originally meant to troll but they did convey some truth in that western games in general are rather uninspired and seemingly look each other alike (often fps games, the gritty look, etc). Besides a few western games like Cuphead, Hollow Knight, Kingdom Deliverance, Total War Warhammer, Crash Bandicoot remake, i've played nothing more than japanese games in the past several years.

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>Looking at japanese forums, they all hate how westernised all those games you listed are
Then they are now an irrelevant fucking market. Sorry Yas Forums but what? Going to sit here and tell me "those games BAD." going to defend the shitty Japanese taste in video games because muh Japan. They have the best devs in the world and now it seems those devs are wasted on the Japanese gamer. The Japanese gamer wants to play mobile shit so fuck them. Their devs work for us now. This is why i cringe when Yas Forums harps on about "what Japan do tho" because clearly they are all fucking shitters who don't like good video games so FUCK what they think. Fuck em. Japanese devs BASED. Japanese consoomer WACK.

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So wait, Playstation isn't a thing in Japan anymore? What the fuck is the point of buying one then? I'd rather buy a Switch.

All those games you listed retard were born in Japan.

yes you fucking faggot, read my entire post holy fucking shit you dumb cunt.

don't know about dmc and REmake but MHW and Sekrio were pretty popular in Japan

Why do you think it's ok for Japanese devs who reside in Japan to slave away for a company who's base now resides in fucking California?

Retard

I'm very sure OP is a lying fag because there is no way this is remotely happening. The Switch is a commercial hit worldwide but the hardware wont allow the same kind of japanese game projects a playstation home console do like From Software (just make a new Armored Core already), RGG Studios, Earth Defense Force and many others.

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Because we fucking PAY them you dumb cunt.
>hurr durr id rather not have a job because the gaijin buy our games

Yes, retard, exactly. Expect these developers to call it quits eventually.

JP devs would rather use PC than Playstation at this juncture.
Sony fucked up.

Did I miss something because the entire theme of this thread makes no sense. Sony has a stranglehold on Japan.

>Japan is a dying market
Animal Crossing New Horizons had the best launch week sales of any videogame ever in Japan and the lowest second week drop since Dragon Quest VII on PS1.

>Sony has a stranglehold on Japan.
Not their video game market.

>LARPing a loud american when it's 5 in the morning in freedom land
Cringe

>Sony has a stranglehold on Japan.
In what universe?

Maybe because they realized catering to a larger market-share is better for business?

>JP devs would rather use PC than Playstation at this juncture.
>source: dude trust me
yeah they would totally alienate their homecountry userbase and risk themselves to bankruptcy by developing their larger games solely on PC

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Yes, let's have tepid paste for the mass market and shill the shit out of it. Tons of fucking money that way.

Thanks to Steam taking off there's no longer such a stigma against the PC in Japan, and it's easier than ever for developers to get their work distributed.

What the fuck are you talking about

sony california ethics department

Playstation is a sportshit, GTA and COD machine now. No more interesting or original games because they're risky.

Money doesn't give a shit about emotional insecurity. Companies make actual children's toys and the CEO and Investors don't cry about their source of income. Money is money and you're a moronic tool.

Meanwhile, Xbox has no games at all, except broke Halo ports

Steam's popularity allowed better PC ports of console games in the couple of past years but bear in mind those ports are made for the western market in mind. Publishers like Bandai Namco also often refuse to release their own games on PC in Japan through region-locking. OPPW4 is a recent example of this but it also pissed me off Tales of Berseria didnt have a jap version on PC so I could play it without the censorship of the prologue and the mediocre translation

A decent gaming PC is a bit of luxury to purchase, that is true in Europe and I recall seeing Japan has a similar situation where computer parts are priced higher than in America due to taxes (ive seen a difference going as far as 100 eurobucks for graphic cards between europe-america for instance). There is also the problem where PCs are all built differently while consoles are homogenized which make development and optimization simpler. Believing that the japanese devs would leave the playstation ecosystem (and similarly the nintendo ecosystem too) in favor for PCs is completely surreal and delusional

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You're blaming PlayStation for this

Revenge for weebs not keeping the Vita afloat obviously.

Yes.

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Yeah well that's pretty fucking stupid

Bamco is infamously dim-witted. I'm primarily thinking about smaller developers.

By that token why would anyone in the world work on products meant for export? Don't be a moron.

It's true that console games as a whole are becoming less popular in Japan now. However, the one taking advantage is not PC gaming, it's gacha gaming. Even Nintendo is moving into that market.

>>A decent gaming PC is a bit of luxury to purchase
Here is the thing though, these days a majority can run on Desktop Toasters if you are willing to give into "Console Standards" of relatively stable 30-60fps because shit is usually using "Gaming Laptop" as a standard to develop for because that is what most of the potential audience have these days. People who build are not the majority of people who play on PC.
And even games that go out of their way to push new hardware usually have ugly as fuck toaster settings.

I think places like Yas Forums and /g/ kinda have a distorted view on what actually is average because it is enthusiasts with high standards surrounded by enthusiasts with high standards.

Distribution was never an issue, PC not being popular in Japan was due to loving space constraints. Cope harder.

simple, Japan has no interest in home consoles anymore, the only way to appeal to them is to make a dedicated handheld wich is a new risk in and of itself
but japanese devs will always support Playstation because of the western japanese audience, remember every Jap multiplat sells the most on PS

>expect game devs to quit consistent cash

Did something specific happen or is this just sensationalism as usual?

>remember every Jap multiplat sells the most on PS
Because what the fuck else would it sell on. Not PC and NOT fucking xbone

>consistent cash
He's not talking about gacha games.

If something doesn't have a sticky or rolling thread it is probably sensationalism.