| Manlytears said: sure, they can do much better, maybe even make 2x-3x more sales than X360, they can go from 300 for week to something like 600, maybe even 900 for week! |
Ouch lol.
I expect an okay first week honestly. There are a fair number of westerners in Japan, and another fair number of wealthy people who might buy it for the lulz.
But yeah, I don't think it will sustain past launch at all, and will be stunningly bad in short order. Unless they keep selling it due to pride, it probably won't last two years, maybe even one. The market for home consoles is easily half the size it was just 5 years ago, or maybe even less.
I can't say it enough : mobile is now indisputably and irrevocably king of Japan. Consoles are dying YoY, and I don't expect ANY Gen9 consoles to survive there at all. They will have to be hybrids where you have a handheld that you can also play hooked up to a TV when you want. But the days of a home console selling well in Japan are gone forever.
