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Faelco on 27 July 2017
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konnichiwa said:
Faelco said:

If you completely ignore everything about the Japanese video game market and its evolution, then yeah, you're right... 

Well people also ignore that PS4 was delayed in Japan and so creating a better start for the system. If Ps3 was delayed it would also have a better start and reach 5 million in less weeks. And then then we are not talking about PS3's price/less games etc.

Personally it is the Switch that shows the Japanese market is still living and it outsold the PS4 first year in less than 6 months, and it does it with not typical handheld games but with typical console games:

Edit: and oh yeah congrats to PS4,more JRPG's are welcome but I still miss the PS2 days with all those Shin Megami tensei games.

You realize that the Switch is an hybrid especially to adapt to the current state of the Japanese market, right? It's not a home console because home consoles don't sell anymore here. You can't take it as an example and say "you see, home consoles still sell". 

 

And if you want the Switch to show that the Japanese market is still as lively as before, it would need to sell as much as at least 3DS+Wii U, or even better as much as DS+Wii. If it doesn't do that, then Nintendo will be losing ground in Japan with each generation, like Sony and MS. Not the best definition of a "living" market, more a "still surviving, but slowly dying" market.