Japan sales (Week 14): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - April 2 - 8, 2018

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Jranation said:

zorg1000 said:
Q2 2017 weekly average

PS4-22.5k
NSW-36.5k

Q2 2018 weekly average
PS4-14.5k
NSW-40k


PS4 starts out this quarter on a bad note and is significantly behind the weekly average of Q2 last year and without big hitters this Spring, its hard to imagine this changing.

NSW started out this quarter a tad bit ahead of the average of Q2 last year. It has held a consistent 40-50k for the last 13 weeks so will be interesting to see if that can continue. Also Labo is a potential system seller.

Why IS PS4 really low? Didn't Monster Hunter help  it?

Japan is not home console centric and hasn't been since the PS2 that's why, MH did help it but MH isn't going to change an entire gaming culture as portable gaming perfectly fits the culture and life style over there hence why portables sell well and mobile gaming is strong in Japan.