PS4 sold 6k this week despite a big release.

PS3 sold 15k-20k per week same period (so February 2013, not November 2012 where the alignement is right now) at that age. It didn't even reach <10k until June, less then half a year before the launch of the PS4.

In other words, what the PS4 is now selling in 3 weeks is what the PS3 was still selling on a weekly basis. PS3 will catch up very fast. Especially since it still has to get it's holiday period, where the PS4 fizzled out apart from when they slashed the price by half... and even that was underwhelming.

@bolded: That was true 15 years ago. Nowadays? Not so much anymore. Or where do you think all those "Other" sales are coming from? Just look at this week's sales: PS4 sold only 6k in Japan - but 24k in Asia. Asia has been a bigger market for the console than Japan for about this entire console generation.

@underlined: Find the error. To get from 200k to a million, PS4 would have needed a much larger digital ratio of at least 80% of the sales, or 4 times the physical sales to reach a million.

Finally, most of those western axed games that you listed do not interest Japanese players much. As such they really don't do much in Japan.

So unless something really major happens, PS5 only has the potential to reach about 8M in Japan.

Err, what?

Bundled is the main reason of why those games managed to ship 1 million units.

In South East Asia countries those games were given away for free in last few years promotion.

Same can be said pretty much on the ROTW including Japan. 

"Bundled"

PS4 sold 6k this week despite a big release.

PS3 sold 15k-20k per week same period (so February 2013, not November 2012 where the alignement is right now) at that age. It didn't even reach <10k until June, less then half a year before the launch of the PS4.

In other words, what the PS4 is now selling in 3 weeks is what the PS3 was still selling on a weekly basis. PS3 will catch up very fast. Especially since it still has to get it's holiday period, where the PS4 fizzled out apart from when they slashed the price by half... and even that was underwhelming.

@bolded: That was true 15 years ago. Nowadays? Not so much anymore. Or where do you think all those "Other" sales are coming from? Just look at this week's sales: PS4 sold only 6k in Japan - but 24k in Asia. Asia has been a bigger market for the console than Japan for about this entire console generation.

@underlined: Find the error. To get from 200k to a million, PS4 would have needed a much larger digital ratio of at least 80% of the sales, or 4 times the physical sales to reach a million.

Finally, most of those western axed games that you listed do not interest Japanese players much. As such they really don't do much in Japan.

So unless something really major happens, PS5 only has the potential to reach about 8M in Japan.

Err, what?

Bundled is the main reason of why those games managed to ship 1 million units.

In South East Asia countries those games were given away for free in last few years promotion.

Same can be said pretty much on the ROTW including Japan. 

"Bundled"

TLOU shipped 1 million in Asia on PS4. Physical sales in Japan are 68k. Just the obvious fact that digital is massive and totally missing from MC.

1. That figure is highly inaccurate. Refer to Sony's actual reported sales or from industry agencies like NPD. 

2. China reported 1.5 million in 3 years. SK was around 600k in 2 years. Its simply laughable to say 800k came from regions that have a fraction of the userbase of Japan while Japan only sold 200k.

3. TLOU shipped 1 million in Asia on PS4. Physical sales in Japan are 68k. Just the obvious fact that digital is massive and totally missing from MC.

4. China reported 1.5 million in 3 years. SK was around 600k in 2 years. Its simply laughable to say 800k came from regions that have a fraction of the userbase of Japan while Japan only sold 200k.

5. Moot point. Bundled sales are includes as sales for pretty much every game reported by a publisher. Without bundles Mario Kart would not be anywhere close to where it is now. 

China reported 1.5 million in 3 years. SK was around 600k in 2 years. Its simply laughable to say 800k came from regions that have a fraction of the userbase of Japan while Japan only sold 200k.

No, you are missing digital. We have no idea of TLoU digital in Japan.

TLoU remastered has shipped 1 million+ in 2018, yet MC has the game at 68k. 

Publisher shipments include digital sales

Because the Japanese market is >>>> the other Asian markets. 

Like TLoU sold 200k in Japan with 7 million PS4's but 800k in places where PS4 sold 2-3 million ???

Such conclusions can simply not be made without any data.

For sure PSN discounts can lead to bigger digital skews. The entire point was, digital is big and Japanese charts do not show it at all, hence why you have games like GOW, TLOU, RDR, Nier selling 1 million+ or AC7 selling 500k+ but physical sales don't even show a half of that in Japan.