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sc94597 on 03 February 2015
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torok said:


You list has 4 NES games, 2 SNES ones, 1 for PS1 and one for PS2. A 5 year old DQ game for NDS that sold 4M and a 1M game for 3DS.

3DS is outselling the PS4 3:1 in Japan now. We are talking about the future here. 2 years ago people tough PS4 wouldn't outsell 3DS. 1 year ago it was crazy to think it could outsell Wii U + 3DS. Now it looks like it will do it without breaking a sweat. They are exceding expectations and it only takes some big hitters in Japan to get the win there.

Yeah, I provided a list of all of the mainline Dragon Quest games. A  series that has been consistent with its sales for over 20 years now . You are looking at remakes and mmorpg's as if they mean anything about the sales of a non-subscription mainline DQ game. Like I said, it is like predicting FFXV will sell closer to FFXIV than FFXIII because FFXIV is the more recent title. 

Sure, the 3DS will sell less than the PS4 weekly at some point in the future, that is a certainty. It is an older platform and has a shorter lifespan left in it. Still I can see the 3DS outselling the PS4 in Japan in 2016, unless Final Fantasy XV releases and boosts its sales a lot.  Japan has very different trends from the rest of the world. It is illogical to try to extrapolate Japanese sales from such worldwide trends. Not even the Wii would sell 60k weekly on a consistent basis in Japan, and this is when Japanese sales are LOWER in Japan for the 3DS than they have been.