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Azhraell on 27 August 2014

PS3 finally starting to die, I guess that's good for PS4 which is still doing pretty sad numbers. Decent FW for TLOU, though I was expecting a little bit more given the ratio it had the game in the west compared to the original.



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hiska-kun on 27 August 2014
outlawauron said:
I'm assuming those are digital numbers waiting to be formatted?

The only updates for PS4 digital sales were Watch Dogs and Fifa. The rest was known.

Digital sales for July are already available:

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=127367777



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outlawauron on 27 August 2014
hiska-kun said:
outlawauron said:
I'm assuming those are digital numbers waiting to be formatted?

The only updates for PS4 digital sales were Watch Dogs and Fifa. The rest was known.

Digital sales for July are already available:

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=127367777

Yeah, I saw the update in Kresnik's digital sales thread. He archives all the date he finds (which I believe you post).



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NewGuy on 27 August 2014

The PS4 is in a sad, sad state. It would take a lot of time, effort, and money for Sony to turn it around over there. This is the first time a console is number 1 WW, but sells horrible in Japan, right?



benao87 on 27 August 2014
leyendax69 said:

PS3 finally starting to die, I guess that's good for PS4 which is still doing pretty sad numbers. Decent FW for TLOU, though I was expecting a little bit more given the ratio it had the game in the west compared to the original.

I would not count on that. PS3 is still more relevant than PS4 and will be for some time. Next Persona title is exclusive to PS3, and the recently announced Yakuza Zero is cross-plattform, and I'd bet that PS3 will have the bigger sales.

The drop might be explained as a mix of post-holiday and the recent announcement of a new SKU.



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Azhraell on 27 August 2014
benao87 said:

I would not count on that. PS3 is still more relevant than PS4 and will be for some time. Next Persona title is exclusive to PS3, and the recently announced Yakuza Zero is cross-plattform, and I'd bet that PS3 will have the bigger sales.

The drop might be explained as a mix of post-holiday and the recent announcement of a new SKU.

Selling worse than PS4 and Wii u is dead for me :v



outlawauron on 27 August 2014
benao87 said:
leyendax69 said:

PS3 finally starting to die, I guess that's good for PS4 which is still doing pretty sad numbers. Decent FW for TLOU, though I was expecting a little bit more given the ratio it had the game in the west compared to the original.

I would not count on that. PS3 is still more relevant than PS4 and will be for some time. Next Persona title is exclusive to PS3, and the recently announced Yakuza Zero is cross-plattform, and I'd bet that PS3 will have the bigger sales.

The drop might be explained as a mix of post-holiday and the recent announcement of a new SKU.

This I heavily doubt. Ishin on PS4 held its own pretty well. I imagine we'll start to see similar results to how cross gen games in the West.



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benao87 on 27 August 2014
leyendax69 said:
benao87 said:

I would not count on that. PS3 is still more relevant than PS4 and will be for some time. Next Persona title is exclusive to PS3, and the recently announced Yakuza Zero is cross-plattform, and I'd bet that PS3 will have the bigger sales.

The drop might be explained as a mix of post-holiday and the recent announcement of a new SKU.

Selling worse than PS4 and Wii u is dead for me :v

 

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outlawauron said:
benao87 said:

I would not count on that. PS3 is still more relevant than PS4 and will be for some time. Next Persona title is exclusive to PS3, and the recently announced Yakuza Zero is cross-plattform, and I'd bet that PS3 will have the bigger sales.

The drop might be explained as a mix of post-holiday and the recent announcement of a new SKU.

This I heavily doubt. Ishin on PS4 held its own pretty well. I imagine we'll start to see similar results to how cross gen games in the West.

Uhmm, good point. There is now releace date yet, and if Sony pushes it, it can have a great attach rate, as I'd guess most PS4 buyers are craving for some Japan oriented content.

However, unless some big thing is announced at TGS, PS3 will remain more relevant for at least a year, in Japan.



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Tlozjb on 28 August 2014
benji232 said:
tbone51 said:

benji232 said:

And wiiu got an even bigger drop then last year. Expect more 2k weeks this year because it's currently on an almost identical sales path as last year. One would have thought that kart would have kept it from going back down that horrible sales road but unfortunetely, that doesn't seem to be the case.


What? MK8 might not of pushed 30k-40k+ like we wanted on release and do amazing but to say this? ^^^

MK8 kept it from doing much worse (close to that of 2k-4k like last year) and the games been out for just about 3 months now. Holing a 7k-9k is definitely much better than under 5k. (of course im  not  saying its doing well, just pointing out that MK8 has been maintaining a better baseline and its 3 months from 1 game.)

Mario kart 8 did nearly nothing on the HW side in Japan. Compare this year's weeks to last year's weeks and you will see that they are nearly identical YoY. And the bolded is a bunch of lies, wiiU started doing 2-4k in September and October, and it's heading towards those sales once again with this drop. Last year, it had sold 12k last week and then dropped to 7k, this year, it sold 18k last week and dropped to 7.5-8k this week. Yea, you can see that the sales pattern is very similar. Mario kart 8 sold great by itself, but it did nearly nothing for the hardware.

Not going to happen this year, atleast in September, the Wii U has Mario Kart 8, Hyrule Warriors to support it, unlike last year, and even  though not huge games, Bayonetta 2 is releasing the 20th, and Fatal Frame V, the following week. Those 4 should be enough to keep it away from the 2k-4k weeks in Japan, and should maintain it at okay levels during October. The one we should be worried about is the PS4.



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Vena on 28 August 2014
outlawauron said:

This I heavily doubt. Ishin on PS4 held its own pretty well. I imagine we'll start to see similar results to how cross gen games in the West.


I could be remembering wrong, but haven't all of the cross-platform games between PS3/PS4 been performing better or comparably on the PS4 over the PS3?