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

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Rogerioandrade said:

Mummelmann said:

It's performing more or less exactly as I imagined; a decent launch followed by a plummet and likely a very unimpressive weekly baseline from April and onwards towards the holidays.
Japan is a dead end for all consoles today.

That said; I feel it's important to also mention the difference in launch times, some of the above consoles launched during the holidays and that's kinda relevant to the overall situation.

That´s true. While WiiU was launched in a better, let´s say, "environment", we just can´t deny that PS4 numbers were not what Sony probably wanted. PS4 launch was lower than PS3 launch and this is a main concern, specially considering that PS3 was ( a lot) more expensive.

Japanese gamers really doesn´t seem to care much about home consoles anymore. PS4 will hardly repeat PS3 success.

I'm confident it can match the sales of the PS3. It's going to be the only console to play FFXV, KH3, MGSV, GTA6, RE7 etc. It's still going to get massive 3rd party games which will be the main system sellers in Japan. And the PS4 launch was much bigger than the PS3 launch.