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mii-gamer on 20 February 2014
Max King of the Wild said:
mii-gamer said:


i call bs - and say it will have a better launch


I couldnt find the thread unfortunately but i distinctly remember commenting to the people saying Ps4 has no games that interest japanese gamers that japanese are interested in the same stuff we are even though the games might not sell FF levels. Those games are just a beast. I also remember defending some people saying 400-500k saying its probably because they think it will do better than Wii U. Too many people use the word "predict" in their title though so google popped out a bunch of threads.

Wii U did well in Japan first week so Id be happy if it matches (which i think it will)

what did the ps2 do in Japan FW? Might be closer to that 



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ktay95 on 20 February 2014
Max King of the Wild said:
mii-gamer said:


i call bs - and say it will have a better launch


I couldnt find the thread unfortunately but i distinctly remember commenting to the people saying Ps4 has no games that interest japanese gamers that japanese are interested in the same stuff we are even though the games might not sell FF levels. Those games are just a beast. I also remember defending some people saying 400-500k saying its probably because they think it will do better than Wii U. Too many people use the word "predict" in their title though so google popped out a bunch of threads.

Wii U did well in Japan first week so Id be happy if it matches (which i think it will)

WiiU could indeed outsell PS4 in its forst week but thats because PS4 is working with 1 day of sales. Also there are plenty of Japan centric games on PS4 at launch its just there is a crazy amount of western games because it launched here first



ArmGunar on 20 February 2014
mii-gamer said:
Max King of the Wild said:
mii-gamer said:


i call bs - and say it will have a better launch


I couldnt find the thread unfortunately but i distinctly remember commenting to the people saying Ps4 has no games that interest japanese gamers that japanese are interested in the same stuff we are even though the games might not sell FF levels. Those games are just a beast. I also remember defending some people saying 400-500k saying its probably because they think it will do better than Wii U. Too many people use the word "predict" in their title though so google popped out a bunch of threads.

Wii U did well in Japan first week so Id be happy if it matches (which i think it will)

what did the ps2 do in Japan FW? Might be closer to that 

980k in 2 days for king PS2 ^^



benji232 on 20 February 2014
Max King of the Wild said:
benji232 said:
Hopefully PS4 revitalizes the Japanese gaming hardware market. I doubt it though, I can't see it doing much better then 400k FW and then averaging around 20-25k a week. I hope that I'm wrong though.


400k fw and 30k average a week after that means it easily surpasses the ps3. Thats fine with me.

Perhaps but that isn't enough to revitalize the japanese gaming hardware market which is down almost 50% YOY in 2014. 



Predictions for LT console sales:

PS4: 120M

XB1: 70M

WiiU: 14M

3DS: 60M

Vita: 13M

lucidium on 20 February 2014
benji232 said:

Perhaps but that isn't enough to revitalize the japanese gaming hardware market which is down almost 50% YOY in 2014. 

and whos fault is that? *stares at his WiiU*



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ktay95 on 20 February 2014
lucidium said:
benji232 said:

Perhaps but that isn't enough to revitalize the japanese gaming hardware market which is down almost 50% YOY in 2014. 

and whos fault is that? *stares at his WiiU*

Yeah WiiU not doing so hot and PS3 is beyond its last legs. Even when PS4 comes along it cant single handedly carry the home consoles in Japan. It would need to be the next PS2 to keep Gen 8 on par with Gen 7 at this rate



Max King of the Wild on 20 February 2014
ktay95 said:

Yeah WiiU not doing so hot and PS3 is beyond its last legs. Even when PS4 comes along it cant single handedly carry the home consoles in Japan. It would need to be the next PS2 to keep Gen 8 on par with Gen 7 at this rate


it does have the exclusives in Japan by default to be the next ps2 there. 



mii-gamer on 20 February 2014
ArmGunar said:
mii-gamer said:
Max King of the Wild said:
mii-gamer said:


i call bs - and say it will have a better launch


I couldnt find the thread unfortunately but i distinctly remember commenting to the people saying Ps4 has no games that interest japanese gamers that japanese are interested in the same stuff we are even though the games might not sell FF levels. Those games are just a beast. I also remember defending some people saying 400-500k saying its probably because they think it will do better than Wii U. Too many people use the word "predict" in their title though so google popped out a bunch of threads.

Wii U did well in Japan first week so Id be happy if it matches (which i think it will)

what did the ps2 do in Japan FW? Might be closer to that 

980k in 2 days for king PS2 ^^

yeah i don't think it is going to do those numbers



Xenostar on 20 February 2014

less than 24 hours to go :)



Carl on 20 February 2014

So with less than 24 hours to go has any preorder rumor at all come out of Japan?

We had preorder numbers for America and the UK before launch. Why has nothing at all come from Japan?