Japan Sales Week 40 Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - October 1-7, 2018

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Farsala said:

zorg1000 said:

Anybody who has payed attention to Japanese sales for the last few years knows that it takes awhile for 3rd party sales to transition from 1 platform to the next.

The exact same thing happened with Vita & PS4, for the first year or two PSP & PS3 versions were selling just as much or better.

Big difference though is that PS4 had terrible HW sales and install base, so of course the games on 10m PS3 and 5m Vita sold more than PS4. The Switch on the other hand nearly equals PS4 install base.

Yep, this is a riddle to me. Japan is without the question which is best for Switch hardware sales. Still, japanese 3rd-party games sell mediocre there. Often these same games do sell better than on PS4 in the West. So, what happens there? Is Switch perceived different in Japan than the rest of the world? Which leads in the West to good sales of 3rd-party games, including japanese ones, but have different effects in Japan, although good hardware sales?