PS4 numbers are incredibly bad. I think I read somewhere that that's the biggest W1-W2 drop ever for a new console in Japan. The one saving grace is that it does seems like new stock didn't get there until this week and will be accounted accordingly. If you think about it, it makes much more sense for Sony to ship to the US/UK/rest of EU where the real "fight" will take place. Regardless though, any fan of JP games should really hope that the PS4 finds a healthy baseline in the land of the rising sun in order for us to get more JRPGs and JP like games on the system. As of now, they are mainly going to mobiles, and that's worrisome. My hope is that the PS4 has an unprecedented rise next week as new stock comes in and sells 70K+. I'm not holding my breath though and should probably expect another huge drop.
| kumagawa said: Wii U media create sales last 3 weeks 2/24 – 3/2 Wii U – 8,204 2/17 - 2/23 Wii U - 8.407 2/10 - 2/16 Wii U - 8,782 Sub 8000 next week? Anything new releasing? |
The next worthy releases in JP for WiiU are Just Dance 2014 on April 3rd, which is exclusive to WiiU in Japan due to Nintendo publishing it, and Mario Kart at the end of May.
The WiiU has not stabilized yet, as you have shown. It's going down every week, albeit slowly. I guess people can see that as a good sign (it's not dropping like a rock). I think reasonable expectations that it will be below 5K in the middle of May prior to MK8 is fair.
Vita seems to have stabilized in the 18-23K range. I feel like the PSV is on the verge of taking off in Japan, but it needs one or two exclusive big/huge titles to help push it over the hump. Its biggest title is a cross gen game in GE2. Sony should work hard on getting some exclusive SW for it. There's not a whole lot they can do for it from a 1st party perspective (GT6 port, Dark Cloud, LoD, new IP), but from moneyhatting, they could try and get MHP5, FFType1, KHBBS2, and DQM3/DQJ3 exclusively. Along with ports of DQX, FFXI or FFXIV, etc... For the SE titles, they could HD port FFType0, KH BBS, and HD remakes of DQM1+2 and DQJ1+2. Not saying it'd be easy, it would require a lot of work and effort from Sony to make this happen and Nintendo seems to have an ironclad grip on the biggest 3rd party games in Japan, DQ (as well as mainline MH games now). Sony would have to work extra hard and put lots of money on the table to make it happen. I'm not saying it would surpass the 3DS LTD, that's actually pretty much impossible to happen at this point, but that it would pass the Saturn (6 million) and possibly the PS3 and Wii.
