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Viktor on 04 November 2016
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Kresnik said:
Viktor said:

First Two Days Sell-through {2016.11.03}
[PS4] [PSV] Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey (Koei Tecmo) - 50% like SAO and WoFF the PS4 version is selling better

And that's surprising why?  PS4 version of Atelier Sophie sold better at first too:

02./00. [PS4] Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book # (Koei Tecmo) {2015.11.19} (¥7.344) - 30.759 / NEW 
03./00. [PSV] Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book # (Koei Tecmo) {2015.11.19} (¥6.264) - 25.805 / NEW 

By the end of the year they were closer, PS4 still slightly ahead though:

145./000. [PS4] Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book # (Koei Tecmo) {2015.11.19} (¥6.800) - 46.893 / NEW (30.759 <77,52%>) 
150./000. [PSV] Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book # (Koei Tecmo) {2015.11.19} (¥5.800) - 45.568 / NEW (25.805 <77,10%>)

So... I'm not shocked that the sequel is likely to see exactly the same behaviour?

Since we're pushing this point I thought we'd dropped though, why didn't you share the other news from the Media Create thread that you're taking this information from?

 

Dengeki, retail software sales for the year so far:

PlayStation 3: 1.523.503 
Nintendo 3DS: 8.125.264 
PlayStation Vita: 4.034.683 
Wii U: 1.729.107 
PlayStation 4: 5.846.255 
Xbox One: 34.697 

Not including Wii and PSP software sales are down by over 4.6m YoY, with the 3DS taking most of it with 3.9m less.

PS4 is up by over 64% and climbing rapidly, it already surpassed it's total sales of 2015 so it'll continue to grow. That's great and all but PS4 is still not making up for the loss of PS3 sales.

Vita, somewhat surprisingly, is also up, though by a rather small margin.

 

So all this doomed talk yet software is still up YoY.  Yes, it's not going as quickly as PS4, but it's still not in the position where support is going to be yanked any second like you're making it out to be.

The trend didn´t start recently, it just became more pronounced in the past months, Atelier Firis is just another very recent example, of a PS4 version perfprming better. No one is in denial about the fact that 3DS is about to be replaced in support focus among Nintendo systems and has less releases, it will still end up with at least  ~12-14m units of software sold this year and next year the focus will be on Switch, with the obvious consequences. I guess the difference is obvious. PSV will end up this year with at best only 5-7m software sold in Japan, and next year the most reasonable prediction is to  expect considerably less from already low software sales.