PS4 passes PS3 launch-aligned sales in Japan

[zorg1000]

AEGRO said:

zorg1000 said:

CosmicSex said:
They told me consoles where dying in Japan. This was supposed to explain Xbox One's lackluster numbers as even the PS4 was down. But alas, now its just the Xbox that is down. Almost everything that every analyst said has been proven wrong.

 

PS1+N64+Saturn=roughly 30 million

PS2+GC+XB+DC=roughly 30 million

PS3+Wii+360=roughly 25 million

PS4+Wii U+XB1=currently under 5.5 million

 

The Xbox One is not making a case by selling less than a Thousand Units weekly over there tho.

Weekly Hardware Chart 09th January 2016

 

Platform	N. America	Europe	Japan	Global
	95,837	98,738	37,474	278,250
	21,893	22,960	54,990	105,533
	50,301	26,528	216	86,305
	3,834	21,523	34,528	74,935
	17,126	14,415	25,458	61,036
	2,238	5,710	3,292	15,905
	4,236	2,419	7	7,793

Microsoft: 223 Consoles Sold between Xbox 360 and Xbox One in a whole week.

Pretty difficult to shatter any records when the responsability rest on just one (maybe two) console shoulders.

 

Even if we make this comparison just Playstation+Nintendo, the numbers don't look good.

PS1+N64=25 million

PS2+GC=27 million

PS3+Wii=23 million

So the last 3 generations have sold roughly 25 million for Playstation+Nintendo. PS4+Wii U won't even hit 20 million (probably a few million below), the Japanese market is in decline, it's not even a debate. Is it dead? No, not even close but certainly declining.