Japan Sales - Media Create , Famitsu & Dengeki

[Kresnik]

By the way:

I think these PS4 weekly sales are going to be "necessary".

My explanation:

Sony knew it was going to be a long time until the actually system sellers (Phantom Pain; Final Fantasy XV etc.) started showing up for the system. Their options were:

- Wait until they're ready; or

- Release as soon as they predict stock situation will be better in the west.

And to be honest, I'd imagine third party publishers wanted them to do the latter.

Games like Battlefield; Tomb Raider; Call of Duty; FIFA etc. squeezed a few extra sales out of being ready at PS4 launch in Japan. Had Sony waited any longer, we'd be approaching the new iterations of these franchises coming out (especially for the yearly ones) and being able to sell them for "full price" wouldn't be justifiable.

So I think Sony released the PS4 at this time literally because they had to, to help appease some third parties and because there was no better time in the foreseeable future.

It's not ideal, and they should've courted more Japanese third parties (get the otaku ghetto of Compile Heart/NIS/Gust/Falcom/Acquire on board sooner rather than later; get Namco porting Gundam sooner rather than later), but in the situation they found themselves in it's all they can do.

They're going to have to weather some abysmal short term sales for, hopefully, a lot of long term goals.