Japan sales (Week 33) Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - August 13 - August 19, 2018

[Lawlight]

zorg1000 said:

Lawlight said:

How do you explain the Wii selling poorly in Japan compared to other regions?

Sales were simply more split up between home consoles in gen 7 compared to gen 6.

PS2 (23.18)+GC (4.04)+XB (0.53)=~27.75 million

PS3 (10.47)+Wii (12.77)+360 (1.66)=~24.90 million

There was not a massive decline from gen 6 to gen 7 in Japan.

Don’t forget the Dreamcast. It dropped from 30M to 24.9M so a 17% decline. That’s despite the huge casual appeal of the Wii which caused the Wii to outperform. It dropped a further 58% so far due to MS not bothering with Japan like they did with the 360 and the WiiU tanking. 17% decline I think is big when you factor in the Wii casual appeal as it makes it look like a smaller decline that it could have been.