When Will PS4 Surpass WiiU in Japan? (If it does)

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DerNebel said:

AAA300 said:
There are alot of blind sony fans if they think ps4 will overtake wii u in 2015 or 2016! Wii u has a 1.2 million lead in japan and despite all the launch hype has outsold ps4 for a month now.Launch hype is still in effect for the ps4 in other markets but has died in japan. Simply put there's no games worth buying a ps4 and a drought still in effect and console sales are slow there ps4 only sold 7k last week thats lower than the ps3 if this happened in other markets ps4 is doomed threads would pop up everywhere!And this talk about games coming is weak did any one watch e3 wii u will have a monster 2015 and has games coming this year more big titles than sony this year and next. Quit comparing it to the rest of the world japan is a different market wii u gets games there that we dont see here like dragon quest and yukuza. So unless a miracle happens 2017 is possible but I think japan will be nintendos this gen with portables so big there remote play is just as good at home!!!

Because naturally Sony would show its japan centric games at E3 and not TGS, that is completely ignoring the fact that Sony has still only shown 1 game that is scheduled for after summer 2015 and that's because that game's huge and was a great way to end the conference, Sony are not announcing too far ahead right now, but people seem to forget this. Also how is the Wii U going to have a monster 2015 in Japan? Zelda isn't nearly as big over there as it is in the west, the first Xenoblade game didn't really do much either, what else is there? Splatoon, Kirby, Yoshi, Mario Maker, Devil's Third? None of those are huge hardware movers.

And the Wii U got one DQ game that was already on Wii and a remake of the first 2 Yakuza games, that's it. I really don't see all those games the Wii U supposedly gets in Japan that don't come to the west.

Few games are hardware movers for consoles in Japan but Hyrule Warriors is a good start, Sony showing Japan centric games doesn't mean Japan will up and buy the PS4 on impulse in fact this holiday PS3 will do well in Japan with P5 out, the games first have to be out and not many games stay in the charts in Japan for long. Many of those games not being as big in Japan as the west doesn't really matter when they're still sell well enough in Japan regardless. It's not as easy as showing FF in Japan as it was over a decade ago as even FF doesn't determine top console in Japan anymore.