Japan Sales week 4, January 21 - 27 , 2019

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Faelco said:

Nate4Drake said:

Yes, even with KH III and RE2...and this is a very disturbing signal for Japan.

Switch, with KH III and RE2 would have sold much much more units; this is how Japan has sadly turned, let me explain better; These games should push more hardware, and the fact they are not boosting that much is because Japan do not care about home consoles, but only portable from Nintendo. This is not denigrating Nintendo Switch, of course, It's a note for Japan, and many of them are missing out on a fantastic gaming experience, and the situation seems irreversible.  It is not PS4 doing bad in Japan, it's Japan which seems to be so close minded and even capable of ignoring a very good console like XBox, because IT IS a good console.     This is only my thought and perception, so please respect it.

The thing is, Japanese people spend very little time at home compared to the West. So it's not useful for them to spend a lot of money in a home console and a nice TV with it (TVs seem very expensive here btw), when they have F2P games on their phone, which is even more useful for all those who spend 2 hours on a train everyday.

 

Japanese society isn't a good fit for home consoles, and they developed a "better" alternative. So yes, the home console market became significantly smaller. 

So would you say it's less of a "we dont like home consoles" and more of a "we dont have time for home consoles" situation?