Japan sales (Week 47): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - November 20-26, 2017

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irstupid said:

zorg1000 said:

Will it be in 5 weeks? Its up by less than 170k YOY and like you said, its down so far this quarter and there is no reason to think that will change since PS4 got Final Fantasy XV & Yakuza 6 in weeks 48 & 49 last year and has nothing near as big as that this year.

PS4 sold ~475k (95k/week) in the last 5 weeks of 2016. If PS4 sells 350k in the last 5 weeks of this year it will be up less than 3% YOY.

Obviously any growth is good but you are exaggerating how much its up.

Don't forget that I've read in a ton of other threads how year 4 is a consoles strongest year sales wise. So PS4 should be doing its best in all regions by that alone this year. The fact that is is slowing down this quarter and barely outselling last year says something for Japan.

killeryoshis said:
This thread is very interesting. Anyway on non Switch hardware related news. Zelda has gone up by 116%! What's even more crazy is that Animal Crossing went up by like 200% and that game is five years old. Animal Crossing will leave no survivors when it launches on the Switch.

Which really makes us hope that the AC Switch game is like Q1 2018. They should have realized by now that their mobile releases bump the console games sales big time. It's like a giant massive marketing campaign. Be stupid to not have a new AC ready for early next year to relish in the current consumer awareness.

There are too many signs that hints AC in 2018 but no confirmation yet. Nintendo has been making good decisions so hopefully this will continue