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Rol, what are your prospects about the Japanese console market (Wii x WiiU and PS3 x PS4)?

So far, the Japanese market is the one I'm more concerned about. The population of the country is not growing and his economy isn't as well...

NSMBU is still the only really relevant title Wii U title released there. Wii Sports was outsourced and it is not even a real sequel. Wii Fit was not properly released yet. Both games should be ready at launch and Nintendo has no excuses for that.

The PS4 may face some challenges too since its sales rely almost fully on Japanese third part support. However, last gen they moved to PSP/DS and now are mostly focused on Vita/3DS. Since a proper PS4 game will need to sell 1 million plus to justify the investment I do not see a PS2 level of support and not even a level PS3 coming.

In a nutshell, I'm afraid we will see both consoles sell less than their predecessors.