Its a game aimed mainly towards the japanese audience so making it cross-gen makes sense. Sony only sold 1.3 million Ps4s in Japan, meanwhile there are 10 million Ps3s in Japan.

Modern western titles do not have an edge over Japanese games, it just appears to be that way to most people since modern western console games are designed to appeal to the mainstream masses while japanese games are designed to appeal to niche audiences and that by itself is not a bad thing. People say japanese developers are living in the past but to be honest I dont see how that is a bad thing, most "modern gameplay mechanics" introduced by western developers these past few years to appeal to the masses are pure trash, like for example cover based third person shooting and health regen. Before anyone calls me a weaboo I will say both western and japanese developers are equally good, they both have released in the past few years some great games and also some really crappy ones.

The Ps4 did justify its existence though, are you forgetting the PS4 just got an exclusive that has currently a 93 metacritic score?

The truth is that we dont even know right now if its coming to consoles at all. What we know right now is that SCEJ is in discussions with Square enix to bring the game to the PS4 and IF they decide to port it to consoles we will have to wait at very least 1 year after the arcade release for the console port to come out.

Playstation- From Software

PC- a tie between Blizzard and CD projekt red

Xbox- no idea

It encourages the player to actually get be better at the game so I do not think its bad design and besides you sound like it takes an insane amount of time to replenish blood vials, thats truly not the case.

Maybe people did not notice, but currently most of the highest rated current gen games in metacritic are japanese.

The thing is that Halo 5 will sell like hotcakes even if its shit.

If I remember correctly Estus flasks are replenished at bonfires for no cost at all, meaning you can use them far more liberally, Oh the game actually demands patience for new players to get good at it, the horror.

I really hope this is sarcasm. Oh the game punishes the player for failing, the horror.

It really is not a stupid decision. It forces the player to actually not mindlessly waste their blood vials and as a result play more carefully to prevent taking damage.