The PS4 is a MAJOR flop in Japan - we need to talk about it

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JGarret said:

kowenicki said:
I approve of this thread.

It is a reasonable view of the situation following similar threads of scrutiny in recent times.

The Japanese market doesn't like home consoles any more. As will be revealed over the coming 12 months.

I reckon the combined home console sales will be about half of the Playstation 2 generation.

kowen, in your opinion, what is it that exactly caused this shift?....I mean, up until the PS2, it seemed like Japanese gamers had no problems gaming on home consoles...this violent shift to handhelds coincided with the start of the last generation...was the transition to HD plus the PS3´s complicated architecture some of the main culprits?

It´s not like millions of people just suddenly woke up and said "you know what, I´m done with gaming on my TV, I´m now doing my gaming on these small screens"

This was a long time ago (2 years ago if I remember correctly), but I remember reading an article saying that most middle class families in Japan only have 1 TV in their houses. Not sure if that might have to something with it. 

Probably not because I imagine this was the same during the PS2 era.