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Materia-Blade on 02 April 2015
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Hiku said:
Materia-Blade said:

"just a few" japanese titles? ps4 has just received a lot of games over the past weeks, including DQ heroes. A boost was expected. it's the post boost baseline that matters.

None of those games are their main francises or even particularly big games at that, is what I was refering to. Dragon Quest Heroes is not a proper Dragon Quest game, but a Musou game. Yakuza has never been a system seller, etc. Also, hardly anyone bought FF Type-0 HD in Japan unlike in the west. (Because they've already played it on PSP, unlike us.) And yet we've been seeing impressive signs lately in spite of that. What will be really interesting is when games like Metal Gear Solid V, Final Fantasy XV, a main staple Resident Evil game, Persona 5, Kingdom Hearts 3, and other jrpgs start coming out, etc.
WiiU already released several of their main franchises released, while PS4 has yet to release even one. WiiU also had a price reduction, while PS4 has not.
Looking forward there's not a lot left for Nintendo to throw at Japan, and it will just get worse with time. Meanwhile Sony have pretty much everything left to play.

Materia-Blade said:

"The great irony in it all is that Japan was the one region where the most people were sure the Wii U had a chance at winning"

So far, it's winning, unless you want to include handhelds.

That's called "being in the lead", not "winning".
The one winning is the one on track to win by the end. And that does not look to be the case for the WiiU at all right now. It's getting outsold by PS3 at times iirc.

"None of those games are their main francises or even particularly big games at that, is what I was refering to"

they came in great quantity, one week even had 3 releases.

"The one winning is the one on track to win by the end."

Wii U is ahead (winning) and any "track" is uncertain for either. ps4 was in the low 10k before dragon quest heroes, what guarantee do you have that it won't go back there? at the same time, you are comparing it to wii u numbers when it didn't get a good release in a long time. we can't tell how big or small of a boost it will get from xenoblade, splatoon, yoshi...