Japan is the second best selling country for the ps4

[zorg1000]

Farsala said:

zorg1000 said:

It really hasnt been as harsh on Nintendo.

PS4+Vita will have close to a 50% gen over gen decline.

3DS+Wii U will have less than 40% gen over gen decline.

I would argue it is harsher since Nintendo relies more on sales from Japan than Sony. In addition the % change doesn't matter as much as raw number change. Nintendo and Sony both lost 19m in HW sales so far. It was harsh enough that Sony and Nintendo completely abandoned the Vita and Wii U for other prospects. But that is more of a WW issue.

Another thing to consider though is that DS+Wii was much higher than any previous generation for Nintendo and that 3DS+Wii U is around what previous generations did.

NES+G&W-32m

SNES+GB-28m

N64+GBC-27m

GC+GBA-21m

Wii+DS-46m

WiiU+3DS-27m

Since Gameboy was the primary handheld for the entire duration of the SNES & N64 generations i split it up as April 1989-March 1996 & April 1996-March 2003.

 

So outside of Wii/DS, Nintendo has been relatively stable.