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

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Megiddo said:

.The same is not true for Sony in japan. They were extemely successful with the ps1, ps2 and psp in japan and lost a significant amount of their market share there. some of it is probably down to a shrinking market in japan, but the Switch shows that consoles can still succeed and do very well in japan.

The Switch shows that a portable gaming system which has a video output that can hook up to a TV can sell in Japan. Did we really not know that a portable Nintendo system could sell in Japan?

At a home console pricepoint? No. In fact we have precedence for the fact that it wont do well.

The 3DS did horribly at 50$ less than the Switch in japan and it took a healthy pricecut to even make it viable. That's why you trying your hardest to avoid the word 'hybrid' in order to downplay the Switches home console capabilities, doesn't do anything at all to make the Switches sales less impressive.