Japan sales (Week 50): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - December 11-17

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nero said:

Next week should do 300K. Do it!!!!

That curb-stomping (should I say Goomba stomping?) from the Switch... PS4 and 3DS really have to add up their different versions to even just match the slower weeks of the Switch!

KBG29 said:
It is hillarious that people will argue against a Switch Phone or PS4 Phone when you see these kind of sales for the Switch. Sony and Nintendo would own the Mobile market in Japan if they made any attempt at it. Hopefully one of them will break out of their shell and give consumers an option in the mobile industry outside of the stagnate duopoly.

In other news, hope PS4 can hold on and increase Year over Year. It is going to be very interesting to see how much Monster Hunter can do early next year. If sales start to slip next year Sony will have to look into a mobile PS4 option for 2019, at least for Japan, the PS5 ain't gonna cut it there if PS4 is going to fail to reach 10 Million lifetime.

For once, I'm with you to some degree. I do think a Switch phone is very much a possibility - but not right now.

Even in 10nm, the Hardware would be too consuming for a 5" Smartphone, unless they would make it considerably more heavy and bulky than the smartphones on the market or risk having a battery life in gaming of less than 2 hours. Plus, the Switch phone would necessarily be digital only due to it's thinness, so it would need drastically more storage space, and Flash Chips come at a premium right now, meaning it would make that phone much more expensive.

Software is also a problem. I'm not talking about games, but about productivity apps, because Nintendo certainly wouldn't have Goole store on it's Switch Phone. While games shouldn't be a problem with all that Nintendo is doing right now, it also does very much need some productivity apps, and I'm not sure if many devs would be willing to make that jump.

As for a PS4 phone... yeah, that has to wait for quite a while to reach that power with sufficient battery life and no risks of overheating in such a small case. Also, unlike the Switch which uses the same hardware base, most games would need to be rewritten from scratch to work on Smartphone hardware.  So I doubt we will see something like this anytime soon. Sony might bring out a Playstation Phone, but it wouldn't be compatible with any console games and probably just a Smartphone with a D-pad, maybe some thumbsticks (maybe because they would be protruding and make the phone rather big - but that would be also a problem for a Switch phone) and physical input buttons