Qwark said:
Sales in Japan for PS4 are pretty bad lately, excluding the week the PS4 pro got a price cut, it sells less than 20k every week even in weeks with pretty big releases even for the Japanese market like Spidey, it didn't get a noticable boost. |
Well, I will say something very obvious, and everybody knows already, but for some unknown reasons many tend to forget about. Japan is a "very special" Market, japanese gamers have their own taste, and it's basicly impossible to sell great for a Console mainly oriented for the west. Is Microsoft XBox a bad console with no good games? Hell no, there are plenty of great games, and with XBox One X you have the best multiplatform experience. Do Japan care about ? XBox is dying there and nobody cares about. And look at the Switch ? It offers the absolute worse multiplatform experience, weak support from 3rd party dev/publishers, the worse graphics and sound experience, and it is selling very good, much better than PS4. It's the way the Nintendo console is conceived, it is small, cool and also a PORTABLE CONSOLE ! The console itself and Its games appeal to the japanese market.
Is PS4 dead in Japan ? Obsolutely not. Of course not, I would never use words like this. I would rather say that the Japan Market is dying, if a good console like XBox One is dying there. Forza Horizon 4 is a mindblowing game, but look, japanese gamers don't care. They only care about their own taste, their own little world and don't even try to expand it.
The gaming experience is moving forward, but it appears they don't care. So considering this, PS4 is doing good in Japan. No boost when great games are released? Does it mean that a cosole is dead there ? It is not the console dead, THEY are "dead", stuck for years to the same things.
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