PS4 Lifetime sale in Japan? + Can it beat the PS3 (10.4M)?

[LesserAmygdala]

johnsobas said:

LesserAmygdala said:
It is so far outselling the PS3 in Japan in the same timeframe, and all of this without any of PS4's biggest releases even releasing yet. PS4 kept selling like garbage for a long time in Japan because of the lack of games, but now it is getting a plethora of games almost every week and the sales are ridiculously higher than what they used to be, and I'm sure they'll only get higher from here on out. PS4 can easily beat the PS3.

You could have replaced the PS4 with the PS3 in your post and it would have made perfect sense.  PS3 started to get much bigger sales later in this year of it's life because of big games and a price cut.  The sales stayed very elevated and consistant for many years after that.  That's the thing here, PS3 is just getting started, maybe that is true of PS4 as well but it's gonna have to be big.  NX is a total wild card in all of this BTW.

Nope. What big games did PS3 even have? It was mostly extremely niche and obscure small games, yet it still managed to sell nearly as much as the Wii. PS4 already has many huge games coming for it that PS3 had no counter for (Kingdom Hearts 3, Persona 5, Dragon Quest XI etc.). PS4 is already outselling the PS3 in Japan and has a more appealing upcoming lineup, so i see no issues here.