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think-man on 28 May 2014

It'll be even bigger next week :P



 

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Aerys on 29 May 2014
tbone51 said:
biglittlesps said:
zorg1000 said:
Deimos said:
Pavolink said:
Another line crossed by PS4. Selling below Wii U must a shame worst than FFXIII on Xbox360.


Really? Which PS4 games does appeal to the japanese right now?


Yakuza: Ishin, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends



All of these games are already available in PS3, so why do you expect them to buy PS4 to play them when they have PS3? But its not the same case with Wii U which has one year of library and the game they want to play in a week. Still, PS4 selling decently compared to Wii U which has one year of library.

At the same timeframe wiiu is still ahead by 200k+ though, and there was NSMB2 that just came out (though its not the sane game as NSMBU)!!!

It would be good to remember that at the same timeframe, wiiu had already a christmas and a system seller, still, it was doing only 200k more with these 2 big advantages.

PS4 didnt even know it's first christmas and has no system seller.



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 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m

 

curl-6 on 29 May 2014

Nice, and without Mario Kart 8! :D



tbone51 on 29 May 2014
Aerys said:
tbone51 said:
biglittlesps said:
zorg1000 said:
Deimos said:
Pavolink said:
Another line crossed by PS4. Selling below Wii U must a shame worst than FFXIII on Xbox360.


Really? Which PS4 games does appeal to the japanese right now?


Yakuza: Ishin, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends



All of these games are already available in PS3, so why do you expect them to buy PS4 to play them when they have PS3? But its not the same case with Wii U which has one year of library and the game they want to play in a week. Still, PS4 selling decently compared to Wii U which has one year of library.

At the same timeframe wiiu is still ahead by 200k+ though, and there was NSMB2 that just came out (though its not the sane game as NSMBU)!!!

It would be good to remember that at the same timeframe, wiiu had already a christmas and a system seller, still, it was doing only 200k more with these 2 big advantages.

PS4 didnt even know it's first christmas and has no system seller.



Vita had Holiday+games :P 3DS had a bad launchm maybe 1 or 2 decent games

GuyDuke on 29 May 2014

WiiU is going to explode next week.



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curl-6 on 29 May 2014

And isn't this Infamous's release week in Japan?

Wii U without a major release > PS4 with a major release? Wow.



hated_individual on 29 May 2014

Damn... The gap is going to get bigger and bigger as time passes...

I guess Japanese developers will sooner or later jump to Wii U bandwagon.



AshKetchum1992 on 29 May 2014

The Mario Kart effect can already be felt.



mii-gamer on 29 May 2014
chidori-chan2 said:
mii-gamer said:
Wii U basic rising in Amazon Japan best sellers list!

http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=pd_dp_ts_vg_1#2

It could rise more in the next hours and in the subsequent days. Signs are good peeps!


It begins!

Wii U basic is at no. 18 

http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=pd_dp_ts_vg_1#1

Mario Kart is selling consoles, question is how many!



naruball on 29 May 2014
curl-6 said:

And isn't this Infamous's release week in Japan?

Wii U without a major release > PS4 with a major release? Wow.

I think this is a bit misleading. It's more like:

WiiU with its (most likely) biggest system seller launching next week statistically ties Ps4 with a minor (for Japanese tastes) release. The wiiu is definitely going to be out of stock this week, so it makes sense for people to buy it the week before to make sure they end up getting one.