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Game developer Yuke’s has become a hot topic on 5ch after signaling plans to push forward with Nintendo Switch 2 ports for titles from its subsidiary Aquaplus. In the thread, posters pointed out how Aquaplus ramped up its Switch releases following a change in company presidents, with several citing the specific point when the series shifted from PS-centric releases to simultaneous Switch launches. Meanwhile, others questioned the value of porting to Switch 2 at all, pointing to data showing third-party software sales on the platform trailing those on PS5, which sparked further debate.

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “Yuke’s: ‘We will push forward with porting Aquaplus titles to Switch 2’.”

An article published on Toyo Keizai Online, which attributes the poor sales of PS5 and Switch 2 games to “insufficient console storage,” was picked up on 5ch’s game hardware board. The article argued that backward-compatible games eat up console storage and discourage purchases of new titles, while also pointing out a contradiction in Nintendo’s explanation that “unwanted games can simply be deleted.” In response, thread posters pushed back one after another, arguing the article’s premise has no basis — noting that the original Switch, which had only 32GB of storage, still sold software just fine. The discussion also branched into the difference between Switch 2’s pricey proprietary microSD Express cards and the old, cheap SD cards, plus a nitpicky argument over the “publisher” credit on certain Nintendo titles.

On the matter of software sales trends: this is what the author calls the “storage cost” problem — the worry that if backward compatibility is kept, previous-generation games keep hogging console storage, which in turn saps the motivation to buy new titles. Nintendo explains that “unwanted games can be deleted, and save data (data storing game progress and player records) stays in the cloud, etc.,” but from the user’s perspective, that’s a major contradiction.

Source: finance.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here

17AnonymousSep 12, 2026 11:50

This is going over 40GB with graphics like this?

*This article was compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [Geha]) thread “‘Toyo Yasuda’: “PS5 and Switch 2 games don’t sell because they lack storage”” (a mocking mashup of Toyo Keizai and the author’s name, Yasuda).

A thread went up on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board arguing that bad news about the PS5 has been hitting one after another. Over the past few months there’s been a steady stream of stories about Sony’s game division — developer layoffs, the split between Kojima Productions and Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), and more. In the thread, posters noted that while the earnings figures themselves look solid, there seems to be a gap between those numbers and the actual mood on the ground, and debated whether media and users react differently to bad news of the same scale depending on whether it’s Nintendo or Sony.

Not linking the URL, but apparently the Keiji Channel is saying the same thing

Source: x.com / original post here

*This article is compiled as excerpts and a summary from the 5ch Hardware/Industry (Geha) board thread “[Bad News] People Are Starting to Notice the PS5 Has Too Much Bad News.”