Ka-pi96 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.
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Yeah, and like I said Japan used to punch above it's weight when it comes to console sales. Now it doesn't, now it's much more in line with where you'd expect a country of it's size and wealth to be.
Circumstances change, and naturally expections should change with them.
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We don't know that for sure, actually only example we have is PS4, like I wrote, PS4 is first gaming hardware ever that has less than 10% of all sales (if we don't count Xboxes of course) in Japan.
Kerotan said:
Miyamotoo said:
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.
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.
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Exactly, Switch is home console + handheld so it needs to be compared to Wii U + 3DS or DS + Wii etc etc. So by your own logic Switch is doing terribly. Which obviously isn't true because that logic is terrible.
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Eh, it's not so simple, even it is hybrid its still just one device, and its something new and different on gaming market to any previous gaming hardware so it's not so easy for comparison in any case. And Switch is still heavily supply contriend, we still don't know what is ceiling for Switch, so that makes things even harder for comparison. While PS4 is a just home console same like a PS3.
