There's so much wrong with this post that its hard to know where to even start. PS5 will likely do as well as PS3/4 (9-10 million) which is still good. The national sensation that was the Wii only did 12.75 million. Software sales for PS4 are still strong, and even with low digital percentages have surpassed the PS3. PS4 continues to get better Japanese support that the SW/3DS, and the same will be true for PS5. Playstation always get the best Japanese support simply due to their global software and hardware sales. Domestic sales are not as relevant and even if they were PS4/5 would still get said support. You mention historical trends yet completely lie about said trends. I'll be showing both WW and JP: Persona 5, Nier, Nioh, DQH/B, MHW, RE7, RE2R, DMCV, FFXV, FF7R, KH3, DBZ, Naruto, AC7, EDF, Power Pro Baseball, all showed record breaking growth largely if not entirely due to Playstation. Atlus best selling game of all time is Persona 5 (PS4/3) Tecmo best selling game of all time is Nioh (sales mostly on PS4) Capcoms best selling game of all time MHW (sales mostly on PS4) RE2R and RE7 outpacing RE5/6 (sales mostly on PS4) DMCV best selling game in the franchise (sales mostly on PS4) FFXV on track to match FF7/10 (sales mostly on PS4) FF7R fastest selling FF of all time (exclusive on PS4) KH3 fastest selling KH of all time (sales mostly on PS4) DBZ,Naruto best selling anime games of all time (sales mostly on PS4) AC7 broke franchise records overseas (sales mostly on PS4) EDF5 best selling EDF of all time (exclusively on PS4) Power Pro best selling since PS2 entries (PS4/V) As you can see, in reality JP third parties have had record breaking success on PS4 and hence its no surprise that PS5 support will be stronger than SW. |
There is nothing wrong with conflating worldwide sales with the Domestic Japanese market. But if you want to talk about World Wide sales this is the wrong thread to bring up the topic. Out of all the things you listed only two are factually correct for the Japanese market. So in the context of this thread, you seem to be talking more falsehoods than myself. Playstation might continue to receive the "best" Japanese support but when Taiko is outselling this output domestically you won't hear me talk about it too much in Famitsu threads. If you are failing to realize how Nintendo having 80% Hardware market share might effect Japanese 3rd parties output.. well I don't know what to tell you. In any case just in case you aren't familiar with the Japanese market I will break it down for you.
Atlus best selling game of all time is Persona 5 in Japan
this one is correct
Tecmo best selling game of all time is Nioh
not even close there were Warriors games with 1.2M sales on the PS2
Capcoms best selling game of all time MHW
not in Japan, there are 6 Capcom games that sold more
RE2R and RE7 outpacing RE5/6
not in Japan, there are 9 RE games that sold more
DMCV best selling game in the franchise
not in Japan, there are 5 DMC games that sold more
FFXV on track to match FF7/10
not in Japan 13 FF games that sold more
FF7R fastest selling FF
not in Japan, probably won't even pass 1M physical
KH3 fastest selling KH of all time
not in Japan, there are 3 other KH games that sold more
DBZ,Naruto best selling anime games of all time
a late port of Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2 sold more on the Switch in Japan than any DBZ Game on the PS4 and PS3, there have been over 20 Naruto games that have sold more than the best selling PS4 Naruto game
AC7 broke franchise records overseas (sales mostly on PS4)
again talking about overseas
EDF5 best selling EDF of all time (exclusively on PS4)
this one is correct
Power Pro best selling since PS2 entries (PS4/V),
once again these games used to sell close to 1M, the best selling PS4 is 255K
Lastly, PS5 will be lucky to surpass 8M in Japan, the console is so obviously not focused on the market, that it's actively pushing consumers away - mostly with it's launch price. PS3 launched at a high price and it ended up doing 50% of what the PS2 did. I look forward the lessons you'd be taught when the PS5 launches and you see the actual demand for such a system in Japan. Sadly for Sony they are likely going to lose market share in a lot of cost-sensitive developing markets along with Japan unless they slash the price of the PS4 and keep producing it for price-sensitive consumers.
Last edited by noshten - on 20 July 2020
