JGarret said:
justinian said:
Almost everyone and his donkey have been claiming that home consoles in Japan are dead. Yet, these sales seem to surprise the very same people that have been shouting this all along. Strange.
I too believe that home consoles in Japan are a lost cause. They were the first people to accept consoles en mass and now are the first to reject them.
Therefore I seem to be the only one that knows what is really going on :) and not at all surprised by this.
I predicted about 150k SW and 30k HW. Both were for a whole week of MK8 sales.
The real story for Wii U is in America and to a lesser extent Europe.
These are also sales for only two days of MK8 I think.
Sony stated that they need to urgently revitalise the Japanese market with new and innovative software, they better hurry up.
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Just WHAT is really going on, justinian?...actually, did you notice all this mess started exactly during the transition from the 6th gen to the last gen?...most Japanese developers really couldn´t fully adapt to HD.
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Yes, I noticed that it happened during this transition but never nailed it down to HD being an issue. I just put it down to the "natural" evolution of gaming in Japan.
There was an interesting online discussion about this on a gaming site, maybe even your point about HD adaption was highlighted. It included Sony (or former) game developers or the sort and some Nintendo (probably former as well) bloke.
It is time for me to leave work now but if I remember I will try to post you the link if you are interested - and I can find it.
