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Forums - Sales Discussion - PS4 sells ~60k in its 2nd week in Japan, tracking below Vita and WiiU. Should we worry?

 

How much will the PS4 sell in Japan?

18m+ 45 14.75%
 
16-18m 13 4.26%
 
14-16m 25 8.20%
 
12-14m 38 12.46%
 
10-12m 54 17.70%
 
8-10m 40 13.11%
 
6-8m 30 9.84%
 
4-6m 24 7.87%
 
2-4m 15 4.92%
 
PS4 couldn't outsell boxed cancer 20 6.56%
 
Total:304
Pavolink on 04 March 2014
Anfebious said:
So the PS4 wasn't the saviour of console gaming in Japan... how sad .


Yep. Far off from the 100k or more second week some were expecting.



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the2real4mafol on 04 March 2014

I guess to some of you, everything has failed. Time to stop the doom theme ain't it?



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tiffac on 04 March 2014

I was actually expecting worse numbers like around 30-40k. lol!

For a console without any exclusive Japanese games, I guess 60k for the 2nd week isn't bad on a month that is usually down for gaming. (well at least the past few years anyways)



Wagram on 04 March 2014

Could be supply issues, or even a lack of software. It's wayy to early to make calls.



teigaga on 04 March 2014

No point comparing it to systems that had their 2nd weeks in lead up to christmas.

I think consistent releases will keep the PS4 above 20k in Japan until we get some the games the Japanese really care about. FFXIV, Infamous, Deep Down Beta, Drive Club and Watch dogs will keep it afloat during the summer. I think the roof for Home Consoles really has been lowered in Japan though.



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Puppyroach on 04 March 2014

Calm down, it´s only week two. I will remain skeptical about the possible success for ANY console this generation, but judging it by sales for week two is way to premature.



vfguy on 04 March 2014

As I mentioned in the other thread, consoles were plentiful the Monday after launch. They were a little harder to find on Friday (2/28), but most stores still had plenty. I am going to do another sweep on Friday to the same stores and we'll see.

Didn't the first week MC numbers say that they sold 87% of the allocation? That would have left 30-50K machines in the channel for week two, excluding any resupplies.

I also want to point out that Christmas is not very important in Japan. It is not even a public holiday. They eat Christmas cake and KFC.

New Year's is a bigger shopping holiday than Christmas here.



kitler53 on 04 March 2014
ethomaz said:

Full PR.

 

Tokyo, March 4, 2014 - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that the PlayStation®4 (PS4™) computer entertainment system has cumulatively sold through more than 6.0 million units*1 globally as of March 2, 2014 (JST). This also includes the 370,000 units sold through in Japan since its launch on February 22.
 

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*1 Number of retail sales to consumers is estimated by SCEI. PS4 sales data in Japan collected 2/22/2014 –3/2/2014. PS4 sales data in North America, Europe and Latin America collected 11/15/2013 – 3/1/2014, and in Asia collected 11/29/2013 –3/1/2014.

well that destroys my thought that there was some confusion on the date of when that 370k units was sold over.

pretty disappointing week 2 in japan at ~50k.

week 2 japan data:

wii -97k
wiiU - 130k
360 - 10k
ps3 - 130k
ds - 191k
3ds - 208k
psp - 83k
psvita - 74k

VGCz data of course.



sundin13 on 04 March 2014

60K is pretty bad but without sell through numbers it doesn't mean much.



ethomaz on 04 March 2014
sundin13 said:

60K is pretty bad but without sell through numbers it doesn't mean much.

It is sell through...