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Aielyn on 16 December 2013
torok said:
Aielyn said:

Sure, the world is bigger than Japan... but the discussion that I was having was about Japan. Somini was saying that Japan was handheld country, and so that's why Sony isn't releasing the PS4 there yet, and I pointed out that the Wii U was selling fine in Japan.

Context - it's somewhat important in a conversation.


The point is, comparing the Wii with the Wii U, it's easy to point that Wii U isn't selling well. Japan currently is a handheld country, but it is probably more related to the fatigue of current (last gen). I expect Sony and Nintendo to have sales proportion between handhelds and home consoles more similar to NA and EU, with a slight higher advantage for portables. MS will probably do like 360 in Japan.

You really aren't getting it, are you?

Somini asserted that Sony is delaying the release of the PS4 in Japan because it's handheld country, and thus the PS4 won't do particularly well. I pointed out that the Wii U isn't having any trouble, thereby indicating that it's got nothing to do with "handheld country".

Now, just admit that you didn't pay enough attention to what I was talking about when you first responded to me, and I won't think poorly of you. Or keep trying to spin this into an anti-Nintendo, pro-Sony argument, and I'll dismiss you as a console warmonger. The choice is yours.



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the2real4mafol on 16 December 2013

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BeElite on 16 December 2013

..... ehh is there any Japan centric software on PS4 ? ? ?? ???
good reason to wait till there something for them to play on it.



DerNebel on 16 December 2013
Aielyn said:

You really aren't getting it, are you?

Somini asserted that Sony is delaying the release of the PS4 in Japan because it's handheld country, and thus the PS4 won't do particularly well. I pointed out that the Wii U isn't having any trouble, thereby indicating that it's got nothing to do with "handheld country".

Now, just admit that you didn't pay enough attention to what I was talking about when you first responded to me, and I won't think poorly of you. Or keep trying to spin this into an anti-Nintendo, pro-Sony argument, and I'll dismiss you as a console warmonger. The choice is yours.

In what world does the Wii U not have any trouble in Japan? Seriously the console has a couple decent weeks and people start imagining things, you do remember that there have been weeks where only about 3k Wii Us were sold in Japan this year, right?



Aielyn on 19 December 2013
DerNebel said:
Aielyn said:

You really aren't getting it, are you?

Somini asserted that Sony is delaying the release of the PS4 in Japan because it's handheld country, and thus the PS4 won't do particularly well. I pointed out that the Wii U isn't having any trouble, thereby indicating that it's got nothing to do with "handheld country".

Now, just admit that you didn't pay enough attention to what I was talking about when you first responded to me, and I won't think poorly of you. Or keep trying to spin this into an anti-Nintendo, pro-Sony argument, and I'll dismiss you as a console warmonger. The choice is yours.

In what world does the Wii U not have any trouble in Japan? Seriously the console has a couple decent weeks and people start imagining things, you do remember that there have been weeks where only about 3k Wii Us were sold in Japan this year, right?

Perhaps you've missed the repeated word I've used in this discussion: "now". The Wii U has been holding at a strong sales number in Japan since the price cut and release of the Wii Party U bundle - indeed, its worst week, the week of the 16th of November, it sold 15k. It has now been above 15k every week for 7 weeks, including weeks where no significant game was released. And the momentum has been building - last week, it sold just under 75k. For comparison, the PS3 sold under 24k, and that was with multiple new PS3 games released... and that was a slight decrease from the previous week, while the Wii U saw an increase of over 50% over the previous week with no new titles.

Tell me - at what point do we stop using data from October to comment on the status of the Wii U now? If the Wii U were to sell 200k units next week in Japan, would you still point to "that week when it sold 3k" to prove that the Wii U is struggling in Japan?



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GamechaserBE on 19 December 2013
BeElite said:
..... ehh is there any Japan centric software on PS4 ? ? ?? ???
good reason to wait till there something for them to play on it.

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DerNebel on 19 December 2013
Aielyn said:

Perhaps you've missed the repeated word I've used in this discussion: "now". The Wii U has been holding at a strong sales number in Japan since the price cut and release of the Wii Party U bundle - indeed, its worst week, the week of the 16th of November, it sold 15k. It has now been above 15k every week for 7 weeks, including weeks where no significant game was released. And the momentum has been building - last week, it sold just under 75k. For comparison, the PS3 sold under 24k, and that was with multiple new PS3 games released... and that was a slight decrease from the previous week, while the Wii U saw an increase of over 50% over the previous week with no new titles.

Tell me - at what point do we stop using data from October to comment on the status of the Wii U now? If the Wii U were to sell 200k units next week in Japan, would you still point to "that week when it sold 3k" to prove that the Wii U is struggling in Japan?

If it still sells at decent levels after the holidays, simple as that.