| curl-6 said: I think one factor is that the PS3 benefitted from the PS2 base being enormous, whereas over the course of the 7th gen Japanese audiences gravitated more towards handhelds, so that by the time PS4 arrived a lot of the PS base had migrated to PSP and from there to 3DS. |
a lot of that audience migrated from the psp to the vita and then onto the switch, since the vita actually sold competitivly to the ps4 during the early part of the decade.
there is also the fact that, expet for the xbone which basically doesn't exist in japan, all three of the ps4's peers did a LOT better in japan then internationally. vita sold competitivly for the first 3 years, the wii U had a cultural sensation in splatoon (people underestimate how HUGE splatoon was) and thus the wii U managed to keep a hold on the LTD advantage VS the ps4 untill 2016, and by that point the switch was coming. and the 3ds... well the 3ds just domitated.
another thing though, is that the ps4's typical playstation latter half of the generation longevity has been basically completly kneecaped by the monster that is the switch.
