A drama is unfolding in the Japanese market. Sony is unhappy with PS4 sales in Japan and is focusing on the American market. At the same time, Microsoft is interested in local development studios and plans to make Xbox the second console in the market of the “land of the rising sun”.

Sony has published a financial report for the second fiscal quarter (July-September 2020). The gaming division turned out to be the most successful and earned almost $5 billion. At the same time, most of the revenue came from digital versions of games and in-game purchases.Basic figures

After Sony denied the creator of Return of the Obra Dinn the right to introduce a temporary discount, attention was drawn to the problem on English-language forums and social networks. It turned out that this is not the first time the company does not allow indie developers to arrange sales.Lucas Pope, the creator of the detective indie game Return of the Obra Dine, decided to arrange a sale in honor of the two-year anniversary of…

On August 25, the game Descenders was released on PS4. However, the head of the company No More Robots, engaged in the publication of the project, could hardly find it in the store and pointed Sony to the problem. Ordinary users also joined the discussion.Mike Rose posted a video on Twitter, pointing out the difficulties with finding the Descenders game in the online store.

In incomplete 2019, the industry spent $319.6 million on gaming advertising on American television. In annual terms, the indicator fell by almost 15%.

In May, Sony and Microsoft announced plans to jointly develop cloud technologies. Their joint move looked like a response to the loud announcement of Google’s competitive Stadia service. This guess was confirmed by PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan (Jim Ryan).

The executive director of the Yakuza adventure franchise Toshihiro Nagoshi said that in the past he tried to interest Nintendo and Microsoft in his project. As a result, he was rejected by both companies, which is why the Yakuza series was released only on Sony PlayStation consoles for 8 years.

The operating profit of Sony’s gaming division in the first quarter of this year amounted to $160 million, which is 59.7% lower than in the same period of 2016. At the same time, sales increased by 5.6% to $3.15 billion.

Sony has published the tops of the most downloaded and sold games on PlayStation consoles for January. ARK: Survivor’s Pack from Studio Wildcard was in the greatest demand last month.

Sony has announced the PlayStation App, a somewhat belated response to Microsoft’s Xbox Glass. It is assumed that the application will make a “second screen” for console titles from the user’s mobile device, the GamesIndustry bulletin reports.