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Boutros on 26 July 2017
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Miyamotoo said:
Boutros said:

Maybe because the Japanese market is very different from every other market..

I don't know why people's standards should be the same.

PS4 sold 65m world wide and only 5m from those WW sales go to Japan market, and its selling on pair with worst seling Sony console in Japan, so I dont think thats good. But I think its good that PS4 come back because had terrible 1st year in Japan.

But agree, people have different standards.

Again the Japanese video market is very different from every other market and very different from what it was 10 years ago. They spend more money on mobile gaming than any other market. This has massively affected home consoles but also handhelds sales. The 3DS situation is the most comprehensible. It's down 10m (33%) from the DS and that's with equally strong support from Nintendo and third-party publishers. But unlike the DS the 3DS had to compete with the rapid rise of mobile gaming. Plus the 3DS's direct competitior (PSV) is much weaker than the DS's (PSP).

That's why home console sales in Japan should be held to different standards than home consoles sales in the west. It's not just a question of opinion and subjectivity.