Japan sales (Week 20): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - May 14-20, 2018

[Kerotan]

Jranation said:

Kerotan said:

It was never going to just explode. It was always going to depend on word of mouth. It will do 250k including digital I would guess. Maybe more. So God of war 2 could end up opening at 100k+ Or maybe even higher. That's usually how these work. 

We've goneover this before.Only 1country on the planet has more ps4 sold then Japan. That's the UK. Obviously Sony care about Japan.

But why is PS4 having these massive stock issues?

It's no longer having massive stock issues. That was when it was selling 5k a week. Now the stock issues are preventing it from hitting say 20k. That would be my guess. 

 

The system is long over due a price cut in Japan so the sales make sense. I think Sony guessed ps4 would sell decent without a cut because of mhw so they held off. But it badly needs a cut this November at the latest.