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DevilRising on 21 February 2014
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Kane1389 said:
DevilRising said:
Funny thing. Apparently OP not aware how much bigger portable gaming is in Japan than home gaming. I'm sure PS4 will get a nice surge from Japan at first. And then system sales will drop in Japan. There is every chance in the world you will see 3DS "back atop the world charts" again in the future at some point.

You really have to love how people seem to assume PS4 is going to be selling 100k+ numbers from now til infinity.


If we follow the flawed VGC WW charts, which overtrack 3DS and undertrack PS4, PS4 would need to sell about 2k per week to stay ahead of 3DS in Japan. Given that even 360 managed to do more than that, I think PS4 will stay on tp for quite some time.

As much as you'd like to believe it, console market in Japan is big enough for PS4 to sell more than 2k there per week


You'll excuse my saying so, but I hardly think I'm the one being unrealistic here.

 

Portable gaming is a much bigger deal in Japan than home console gaming, because most Japanese are on the go a lot. That much is a fact. The fact that 3DS has a LOT of rpgs and other franchises that the Japanese love (Kirby, Monster Hunter, Animal Crossing, Shin Megami Tensai, etc.), only helps it further. I read someone else comment on here that they just needed a system to play Final Fantasy on. But Final Fantasy has NEVER been as big in Japan as Dragon Quest. The reason DQIX sold the most out of the entire franchise, is in large part because it was portable, on DS. Conversely, the main reason DQX hasn't done so hot, is because MMO gaming is NOT as big in Japan as it is in the west. IE they were stupid both in making it an MMO at all, and also in not releasing it in the West where MMOs are much more popular. BUT, if DQXI is eventually announced, and is back to being a traditional rpg, AND it winds up being a 3DS excslusive? It's pretty much game over. 3DS will continue to dominate that country.

I never said that PS4 won't have success. But for anyone to expect that the system is going to sell like hotcakes there for a prolonged period of time, is rather naive.