That's, like, almost 10 million!

For a market that was meant to be all mobile and dead for normal home consoles?! I’d say it’s kind of an impressive development.

Monster Hunter World is going to be responsible for another million I assume.

Of course!Bigger succeesses there are not! Lol

People like to say that "Japan is the land of handheld so of course the 3DS and the Switch are doing well there!", but the way I see it, Nintendo simply adapted to the market it is on with the Switch.PS4 is doing excellent worldwide and Sony cant appease every single market, but at the same time we cant say that the Switch sales on Europe are superb because Nintendo never does as well as other regions there, you cant say that the PS4 is doing superb in Japan because no one buys consoles there anymore.

You can say that the PS4 is having a decent growth there in comparison to the PS3, but as a videogame console is doing just ok there.

monster hunter will push it

Good numbers for PS4, but somewhat said considering that up until 2017 PS4 had no competition on the home console market in Japan with the Wii U being a failure & xbox one being obsolet in japan anyway. The Ps3 on the other hand had the very successful Wii as its competition.

I was just pointing out the other side of the coin, the excuse that people give(being true or not) of why the PS4 sales in Japan are less than impressive.PS4 is a console first and foremost, and comparing to what the other consoles are doing/did, its sales are simply decent.

I said it once and Ill say again.Its nearly impossible to appease every single taste.And I really doubt that Sony is so worried about Japan when its doing so well elsewhere.

Part of the problem is the work environment in Japan. A lot of the Japanese work really long hours and make long commutes, which makes home consoles a much harder sell than handhelds.

Yeah, I have heard how pushy japanese can be with their work enviroment.Thats why I think that Nintendo was smart to adapt to the market, without really killing either their handheld or home console side of business.

This is not really bashing Sony per se, just that I dont think we should be praising something that simply isnt impressive.I mean, how much longer are we going to say that these numbers are impressive or superb if home consoles keeps selling less and less there?Are we really going to, assuming its another tradicional home console, say that 5 or 6 million LT sales for the PS5 in Japan are great because home consoles are dying over there?

It could reach 10 million...

...if the Switch wasn't around

Agree.