Materia-Blade said:
JustBeingReal said:
Technically Wii U sold 1.6M in it's first 57 weeks, but PS4 hasn't been on sale in Japan for 57 weeks, it came out on the 22nd of Feb over there, so it's currently had 51 weeks and 6 days, we only have VG Chartz numbers for 51 weeks and it's already at 1.1M. Like it or not the PS4's launch numbers count, but even if we deduct the launch week, it still sold 800K across 50 weeks, so 200K more than Wii U did last year, with PS4 having no big Japanese focused releases, in the next few weeks that's all set to change, leading up to the 57th week of release, PS4 has quite a few Japanese focused releases, like Bloodborne, Dragon Ball, Dynasty Warriors, Resident Evil Revelations 2, Final Fantasy Type O, Bladestorm, the combined effect of all of that will not cause sales to skyrocket in Japan, if you think that's not.
Later this year there's a lot more big Japanese focused games, I can list them, but we all know what they are, yes PS4 will easily sell double the consoles in it's second year on the market in Japan, compared to the 1st. 3.4M is going to be easy for PS4 by the end of 2015, let alone by Feb 22nd 2016. it's actually way more likely that PS4 will hit 4 by that time next year, especially with all of the games coming out over there.
PS4 will destroy PS3's numbers when it actually has games the Japanese market wants, the system only selling 5M in it's life over there is not happening, not when it sells over a million in it's 1st year, with basically no games for that market.
The first year of releases in Japan were not great at all, this year is very different and we haven't been told everything that's coming yet, there's also the very likely matter of a price cut happening, which would have an enormous effect in Japan on just how many units the system will sell.
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"it still sold 800K across 50 weeks, so 200K more than Wii U did last year"
It will have sold around 1.2-1.3m in 57 weeks, 300-400k less than wii u in the same period. It's also bellow ps3.
You can say the same about wii u not having many japan centric games. It has a few big-huge games and that's why it is so ahead of ps4 (ltd and aligned). Wii U also has prospects for selling better than last year, depending on how well it's big 2015 titles are received.
No need to discuss the rest. You are severely overestimating ps4 2015 and ltd sales for japan.
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You missed the part where I said last year, my comparison was betwen the sales of both systems last year, Wii U is on the decline in Japan compared to it's 1st year, PS4 had a great 1st year in Japan, with far better games, that are more suited to the market coming out this year in Japan.
No you can't say the same about the Wii U not having many Japan centric games, the likes of Mario titles, Pikmin, Nintendo Land, they've all been more Japan focused big releases than pretty everything PS4 has had so far, but that's changing this year.
PS4 has a lot more games that are more suited to Japan's market than Wii U does this year, a proper Metal Gear, Bloodborne, Final Fantasy Type O, hell I showed a load of games coming out within the next few weeks that will have a huge effect on sales in Japan.
I'm overestimating nothing in regards to PS4 2015 and ltd sales in Japan, the games will have that level of effect over there.
So far you've given no logical reason to show why this won't happen.
