| curl-6 said: A console by itself is just a means through which to play games. Judging from not only hardware sales but also the software charts, it would seem the Japanese are simply more interested in playing the games offered by the Switch, from Pokemon to Splatoon 2 to Smash Bros. Only 3 PS4 games sold over a million in Japan in the almost 5 years it was out until VGC tracking ended at the close of 2018, while Switch already had 5 million sellers in Japan after less than 2 years. |
Japan is a becoming a very niche market. They are only interested in a few franchises, that get the ball rolling, and of course being a handheld also helps. Even with switch reckoning 3ds software sales, and it being a handheld and a console, it's still not lighting up the charts, and selling worse then 3ds. Just look at psp sales, it only had monster hunter games sell over a million, and it got over 20 million.
