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

[Kerotan]

Lawlight said:

Kerotan said:

The old Japanese region now has to be called the Asian Market if its to compete with Europe and America in terms of playstation. No individual country bar the USA has sold more ps4's then Japan. It's obviously very important to Sony. Not only have they increased sales this gen over the ps3 last gen but the profit margin for the console both hardware and software is ridiculously better. Oh Sony care alright. 

Japan is the 10th most populated country in the world so it makes sense that it sells a lot of PS4s. It’s just not big enough to be treated as a region like it used to be. Also, Sony doesn’t care because otherwise they would try and build Japanese-centric franchise.

The only place treated like a region is America. The UK, Germany, France etc are all individual countries just like Japan and are treated as such. The population of Europe is dramatically higher then Japan and its ridiculous in this day and age to expect the ps4 to sell similar in Japan as Europe.

 

There's only 1 country on the planet that sold more ps4's then Japan and that's America with its 450m population. Japan is holding it's own and is very important to Sony just like every other major market for it.