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Miyamotoo on 26 July 2017
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DonFerrari said:
 
Miyamotoo said:

Compare that with percentage of sales PS1, PS2 and PS3 in Japan compared to world wide sales, and you will see that evre Sony hardware had higher than 10% of sales. Actually PS4 is first gaming hardware ever that has less than 10% of all sales (if we donct count Xboxs offcourse) in Japan.

Of Course but I don't see how that hasnt anything with what we are talking here. I definitely wouldn't celebrate Japan sales if Switch is selling on pair with worst selling Nintendo console in Japan, and thats my point.

That have to do with context. PS4 is the best selling HW in that market for a long margin. It doesn't make sense to compare it to PS1 and PS2 from over 10 years ago, you have to compare to what is available on the market. And considering what is selling there PS4 is doing good and considering how much Japan as a whole have dropped PS4 being ahead of PS3 is quite good in itself.

But offcourse you do realise that PS4 is much more attractive console than PS3 was and that is selling on evre market expect Japan twice better than PS3!? PS3 is worst selling Sony console in Japan, that had very high price at launch and very strong competition in Wii, PS4 basically until recently had like competition only failed Wii U in Japan, and all PS4 managed to do until now in Japan is to sell on pair with that same PS3, while in rest of the world PS4 that has competition in XB1 is killing PS3 in sales. PS4 sales in Japan are not good, but having in mind somehow changed Japanese market, they are not bad either.

 

 

Boutros said:
Miyamotoo said:

Of Course but I don't see how that hasnt anything with what we are talking here. I definitely wouldn't celebrate Japan sales if Switch is selling on pair with worst selling Nintendo console in Japan, and thats my point.

Isn't that the case, though?

It is very supply constrained which makes it hard to compare (at least until it isn't anymore) but as far as I know the Switch is trailing well behind the GBA which is the worst selling Nintendo handheld in Japan (except the Virtual Boy of course lol).

I mean if that's how you gauge success then the Switch isn't doing good at all.

But fact is that Switch isn't handheld only, its home console also and actually has price point of home console, Switch is a hybrid. And like you wrote, Switch is still heavily supply contriend, we still don't know what is ceiling for Switch. While PS4 is just a home console and PS3 is just home console.