Ugh...Switch is the perfect device for "let's save the domestic market without sacrificing western ambitions." It provides the answer to the DS/PS3 divide by allowing PS4/Switch multiplatform. Perhaps it comes too late. Perhaps Japan is going to die to mobile. But...I'd like it if Japanese third parties stopped joining in on the firing squad, is all.It's sad but I think we're going to have to come to terms with the fact Nintendo is completely irrelevant for third parties, including Japanese ones. MH5 skipping Switch will be the final nail in the coffin.
Who knows maybe MH5 on PS4 convinces Japan to return to the TV and all works out? I just don't see that happening.
And I think any fan of Japanese games should want a healthy domestic Japanese market. Nintendo has tied themself to that struggle under Iwata, perhaps not the best fight to fight, but it's the fight I want fought.