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Intrinsic on 28 May 2014
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spurgeonryan said:
Intrinsic said:
Am i missing something here? didnt the PS4 just launch in japan around 3 months ago? And hasn't the wiiU been in japan for over 15 months now? or was it also delayed in japan?

Anyways, the PS4 will catch and pass the WiiU in japan. This is pretty much guaranteed when MGS5, FF15 and GT7 are released for it.


FF could end up doing little for the PS4, GT7 and MGS will have to fight with more Mario, more Pokemon, more Smash Bros, Zelda, etc.

 

Spin-off/online final fantasies never sell as well as mainline final fantasy games. And japan much like the rest of the world has been waiting for FFV13 (FF15) for a very very very very loooong time. GT7 and MGS5 are not even remotely in the same genre space with all the games you mentioned so they don't have to fight with those games. The kinda person that will go out and buy GT7 will not suddenly change their mind because they rather play Mario if you know what i mean.

Then in additin to this, there are more games like RE, KH3, Tekken and any other 3rd party brand that is usually popular over there. Over a period of 5 years I think its really easy for the PS4 to do at least 10ml in japan. If MK8 and then Zelda U doesn'tmove a whole lot of consoles, chances are that nintendo will struggle to even manage 20ml worldwide by the end of this generation. Big if, but under 5mil consoles sold in 12 months makes its seem like a no brainer projection.