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There is a big misunderstanding about Playstation regarding Japan that you see a lot online, especially on the older forums. While Sony is a Japanese company, Sony Interactive Entertainment is based wholly in America and run by the American corporate branch and has been for years. It is, in essence a fully American company with a Japanese parent company. The Sony that was a giant of Japanese gaming is basically gone and replaced with the newer American version. This was driven home with the closure of Japan Studio.

When we think about Sony turning away from the Japanese market, its not just because the Japanese console market dried up. Its portion of overall sales shrunk substantially but its still one of the biggest markets. Thats a factor but it is also down to the massive change of power structure that happened in the company around the early PS4 days.