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Frogger on 17 January 2018
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Kerotan said:
Nautilus said:
Congrats to PS4, but thats not something to be really proud of.Yes, the home console market has shrunk alot there, and yes it might pass the PS3(so LT sales at around 10 millions) but its still somewhat low to what other sustem are doing in that country, and more importantly, what the PS4 is doing worldwide.

The PS4 is going in the right direction to try to improve the situation managing to get titles like MH in the system, but honestly Sony needs to think of a better strategy to win over their home country back.

Let's take a look at other home consoles from its generation. Xb1 88k and WiiU 3m.

 

Yeah it's doing pretty superb by current market standards for traditional home consoles. Considering how much more profitable ps4 is compared to ps3 especially when you consider ps plus subs, Sony must be delighted with Japan this gen compared to last. 

That isn't exactly steep competition. I'm with folk who say this is nothing to be proud of. It's doing only 2x better than the worse selling home console since the Dreamcast. Not much of a milestone.

I also do not understand at all where the expectation comes from that MHW is going to be this killer app in Japan. Do people not understand the nature behind the success of MH over there in the first place, or the purpose behind MHW specifically?

It's not meant to sell PS4's in Japan - it's meant to sell MH, as a franchise, in the West. The success of MH in Japan is extremely dependent on the local multiplayer component. That's why portability is so important. It's a social experience over there. Not that I think it'll do poorly, but temper your expectations if you seriously think this game is going to light a fire in Japan. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the best selling MH in the west, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it became one of the worst selling MHs in Japan. And not just because of the 6m installed base.