Japan sales (Week 11): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - March 12-18, 2018

[zorg1000]

pastro243 said:

zorg1000 said:

Yep its up by a lot YOY but look at how its changed in the last 4 weeks.

 

It was up 86% YOY as of week 7.

Its now up 48% YOY as of week 11.

 

Like you said, there doesnt seem to be any huge games to move hardware in the coming months so if 2018 continues to lag behind on a weekly basis in the Spring/Summer than that YOY increase could evaporate.

Well, to be fair, last year was it's biggest up until now (I think it has been up yoy each year, not that great considering sales haven't been good but it's something)

It's yet to be seen if this drop is because of shortages or demand level is just in the 20k's  

2016 & 2017 were virtually tied, 2016 was ahead by 8k.

 

It still has minor shortages but i cant imagine them being to such a extent that the weekly baseline would be massively different.

I personally think PS4 will do about 2 million this year in Japan, Monster Hunter gave it a great Q1 but i cant imagine Q2-Q4 being significantly different than 2016 or 2017.