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thismeintiel on 15 January 2014
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Soundwave said:
thismeintiel said:
Holy crap! I expected the Wii U to drop, but not this hard or fast. I was expecting sales to gradually drop over the coming weeks to a new norm of ~20K. It dropped to 14K in just a week.

Wonder if this means PS4 domination in Japan, now.


Take a good hard look at PS3's LTD, because PS4 will likely be even lower than that. 

A console with 90% Western centric games isn't doing anything in Japan, they've gone portable, people need to get over it. 

They'll have a good launch week I'll give it that, but sales will normalize to PS3 levels circa 2008 soon after IMO. 

Of all three markets Japan is the least "hardware hype" sensisitive country, you gotta have a library of constant software that appeals to the demographic, and I'm just not seeing it. 

No chance.  The PS4 will at least match, but most likely better, the PS3's sales.  So far, last gen home consoles have sold ~24.2M in Japan.  Do you seriously think that the home console market is going to shrink by 10M, to ~14M (8M PS4, 5M Wii U, 1M One)?  That's not going to happen.  Sure, it will probably shrink, but not more than 4M.  The PS4 is also launching to more hype and a much better price than the PS3, plus it has very little competition.  And given its easier development environment, games will start to flood the market for Japan.