Boutros said:
But Playstation consoles have their own ecosystem. Handhelds doing poorly isn't going to affect that. The Wii U doing poorly isn't going to affect that either. So you can look at the overall market and think it's doing poorly because yes it is but when we know the breakdown of the overall market and we see that the PS4 is not showing signs of shrinkage compared to previous years or compared to the PS3 then it can't be ignored or blindly lumped together with weak platforms. And this is the lowest period of the year for hardware sales in Japan. It really doesn't dictate the rest of the year or the fate of the market in general. The 3DS and PSV are the end of their life so low sales are expected and the Wii U is unpopular compared to the Wii but also supply constrained at this point. So basically the market is really not doing that bad when expectations are in check. |
However if you compare it to playstation ecosystem, than you also have to point out ps3 was not the market leader, and the device that was market leader for sony last was the PS2. I am not going to compare ps4 to ps2, but I do state the overall health of Japanese Market to be shrinking, and that these numbers are no where near positive for any of them.
