Mr Puggsly said:
1. I don't get what you're saying here. I'm saying software sales in Japan are modest, the best selling physical PS4 game in Japan is under 500K. 2. UK software sales >>> Japan software sales. European consumers generally enjoy the same stuff as NA consumers as well. So the west in general is a much more important audience than Japan. 3. Don't understand your what you're saying again. 4. Not sure what you're saying... again. 5. Again, UK consumers simply buy more games than Japan. Its a more important market to Sony and MS. 6. Japan simply isn't a market worth investing in. Sony themselves doesn't care about Japanese consumers, basically all of their games are for us western consumers. But PS4 is a popular platform in Japan because it will have significant 3rd party content. 7. MS and Sony doesn't invest in the UK per se, UK consumers just buy the same games as other western countries. To gain success in Japan though, you have to make or acquire games that appeal to a smaller market. Its not worth it for MS, they can move more hardware investing more money into western content. 8. For the recod, X1 software sales in UK > PS4 software sales in Japan. GTAV and BOIII will likely do 1 million UK. While Fifa has. |
Sorry, but the European countries doesn't have the same tastes than the USA. A Racing game could be considered a flop in the USA but a success in Europe, the same is true for other games that sell well on Europe but don't in the USA.
I'm saying that the Xbox One, despite having some fanbase of Metal Gear, was outsold by the PC version that never saw a Metal Gear game before.
Japan's biggest games didn't launched yet. UK receives Fifa every year(one of th biggest games of those countries) and Call of Duty. Outside from what they sell, the best selling game did 500-650k. You are saying that a country who did 500-650k ,with their biggest game, outside their biggest titles, is more relevant the the one who did 450k+ without one of their biggest titles.
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8. For the recod, X1 software sales in UK > PS4 software sales in Japan. GTAV and BOIII will likely do 1 million UK. While Fifa has. |
This makes the things even more even. The best selling game for the UK, for the Xbox One, without being Fifa or Cod, is Fallout 4 which did 500k.
So, if someone sells 450k,its irrelevant. But 500k, is relevant. Did you know that Halo 5 sold under the number of Knack(Japan) in the UK? One of the only markets that purchase Halo, we only have numbers of the beggining of 2016.
For Japan, Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy will easily surpass 1 million or more on the PS4. Even games that don't are the focus of Japan, sells 250-300K, UK's 3 biggest launch for the Xbox One(Behind Fifa and Cod) sold 500k. Tomb Raider, an UK's success, sold under 62k at launch