Recently, there has been an intense conversation about the status of PlayStation in Japan. Sales statistics show that, aligned with the release, the PlayStation 5 performs worse than the Nintendo Wii U, even though the console is sold out worldwide. Some think that small hardware shipments show a lack of interest in the Japanese giant in its home territory, and this sentiment has been exacerbated by a large number of high-profile releases from its Japan Studio development team. .
PlatinumGames chief Atsushi Inaba feels different: “To be honest, we don’t feel that much, or at least I haven’t felt the impact yet,” he told VGC. “That said, I understand that the console industry in Japan was not what it was before, and when that happens, the priorities of these big console manufacturers will change, and that makes perfect sense to me.”
He continued: “I don’t know if it’s an opinion out there, and I don’t have any personal investment, but the fact that PlayStation is from Japan doesn’t mean it has to focus on the Japanese market. I don’t feel that way. time, I don’t think it’s American now either: I think it’s international and it doesn’t really belong to any country. That’s how I feel as a developer. “
However, in the same interview, Devil May Cry designer Hideki Kamiya noted Sony’s decision to break tradition with the PS5’s default controls as a sign that things may change internally: “My pride is not done bad as a Japanese, plus there are two fields that had two ways of doing things, and I think they’ve bent myopic in one direction. I don’t understand the reasoning behind that. “
He added: “It’s just a bit of a lack of respect for gaming cultures that have been around for decades as part of so many people’s lives. I think PS5 has altered it and I don’t know if it was helpful to do so. “.
But Kamiya concluded that he does not anticipate “a leak of Sony from the Japanese [game] manufacturers at all ”. He said: “Now it’s so hard to get a PS5 that I think we still don’t have enough accurate data on how it will turn out in Japan.” Unfortunately, a lack of values is expected by the end of the year, according to AMD.