Yakuzaice on 22 January 2014
Hardware market is looking rough in Japan. This week is roughly equal to week 3 2011 before the 3DS/Vita/WiiU came out. If we go back to 2006, just the DS/PSP/360 were about equal to hardware this week. I think the DS was having supply issues as well around that time. Two weeks later it was at 110k, then 22k the week after that. Of course then the Lite came out in March and it only dropped below 100k once for the rest of the year.
If we compare to 2007/8 this week looks even worse, both of those had total hardware sales nearly three times higher in week 3. Of course those had both handhelds plus all three consoles released. However considering the Wii U's performance I don't expect the PS4 and XBO to somehow make up the difference.
