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[Pejo]

Not a chance.

What's more, outside of Capcom and a few other devs/publishers, there's not enough AA/AAA Japanese talent these days to make it even worth targeting to begin with. China and Korea are the new hotbeds for up-and-coming game development.

That said, there are some great JP indie games on Steam.

 

[lachesis]

Not as focused, exclusive effort on PS6. It will be multi platform baseline set on the most popular platform, Switch2, I assume.

 

[hardwood007]

3ds outsold Vita by nearly 20 million in Japan and had all the exclusive bangers. What world are some of you living in?

I am talking about Japan exclusive games that were never localised for markets outside Japan, stuff like your visual novels and niche jrpgs.
Heck, even Falcom only released their Trails games on Vita and not 3DS. And i would say Trails isn't a niche jrpg series.

Yes, 3DS got more support, but there was still a lot of support for Vita in Japan.

The world I live in is in Japan.

 

[Hugare]

lol

lmao, even

You won't get PS3 levels of japanese exclusives, let alone PS2

 

[MrRibeye]

I lived in Osaka in 2024 and my gamer friends felt betrayed by Sony when the O and X buttons were swapped. For those unaware, O was confirm and X was cancel in Japan, but then Sony forced the reverse on Japan, meaning O is cancel and X confirm because that's the international standard.

So the Japanese felt betrayed by Sony, and also didn't like that PlayStation HQ moved from Japan to California. Meanwhile Nintendo still has O for confirm, X for cancel, and is considered a more Japanese-friendly brand now, so they all moved over to the Switch, hence why PlayStation won't be able to have a strong grip on Japan going forward into the future.

 

[Emmy Ator Best]

It won't even see Xbox or Xbox 360 level support

 

[BlackTron]

Everyone is talking about exclusives, I would set the bar lower to just having the Japanese games at all, exclusive or not.

 

[KungFucius]

If they have a portable then they will probably see more Switch 2 ports. If the portable gains traction in Japan, they will get most of what ends up on Switch 2.

 

[Horseganador]

Of course, most Japanese software will be released on PS6 just like it was on PS2; whether they are exclusive is another story.

 

[phant0m]

Absolutely not. The Japanese home console market is essentially dead, their society has moved to mobile/handheld.

I guess depends on how PS6 handheld does.

 

[I Love Rock 'n' Roll]

The PS6 Portable has a lot of potential i think.

 

[Aldric]

No, the days of Playstation being the by default platform for japanese 3rd parties are over and never coming back. They completely bungled their overwhelming advantage with all their pants on head retarded decisions from the past decade and now japanese devs are firmly entrenched in the multiplatform strategy. For all the smaller studios like Vanillaware or Falcom Switch was already a viable alternative and it's now big publishers like Capcom and Square Enix that are putting their big titles on Nintendo's system with the added power of the Switch 2, not to mention more and more japanese players moving to Steam. There's no coming back from that for Sony, PS Vita 2 and its fabled gorillon teraflops and RAM notwithstanding.

 

[SNG32]

No, the days of Playstation being the by default platform for japanese 3rd parties are over and never coming back. They completely bungled their overwhelming advantage with all their pants on head retarded decisions from the past decade and now japanese devs are firmly entrenched in the multiplatform strategy. For all the smaller studios like Vanillaware or Falcom Switch was already a viable alternative and it's now big publishers like Capcom and Square Enix that are putting their big titles on Nintendo's system with the added power of the Switch 2, not to mention more and more japanese players moving to Steam. There's no coming back from that for Sony, PS Vita 2 and its fabled gorillon teraflops and RAM notwithstanding.

tbh I'm noticing Switch 2 gets a lot of indie Japanese games after a PC release. A lot of those games have been starting on steam then released to console. Not to mention Switch 2 still misses a lot of gacha games that are being released on PC and mobile. It seems like other than Nintendo first party PC is getting everything under the sun on the Eastern side. Triple A, Double A, Indie, gacha etc.

 

[freemandos]

I doubt...and it's a shame.