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Nate4Drake on 23 February 2014
Madword said:
As long as it sells more than the PS3, and more than the wii-u (which was remember in a holiday season), I think that will be considered a success.

I don't think the Doom comments help. PS4 is currently selling at record levels, it's outselling it's nearest competitor 2.1 in the USA, and nearly overtaken the Wii-u in less than 3 months, and people seem to get excited that there might be some bad selling news. It's one market we know has been turned off console gaming for a while, if it sells bad in Japan, then there is no hope in Japan for any console. MS haven't even got a date for XBO yet, and the wii-u is not doing that great either.


Don't even bother to some kind of silly comments, they mostly come from immature members.

As you said, PS4 is selling at record levels, better than PS2 and PS3 combined; it will be good in Japan also, but just forget about PS2 level cause Japan is not anyore the same as it was back in 2005, and also Sony focus more on Europe and America nowdays.



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Madword on 23 February 2014
ganoncrotch said:
Madword said:
As long as it sells more than the PS3, and more than the wii-u (which was remember in a holiday season), I think that will be considered a success.

I don't think the Doom comments help. PS4 is currently selling at record levels, it's outselling it's nearest competitor 2.1 in the USA, and nearly overtaken the Wii-u in less than 3 months, and people seem to get excited that there might be some bad selling news. It's one market we know has been turned off console gaming for a while, if it sells bad in Japan, then there is no hope in Japan for any console. MS haven't even got a date for XBO yet, and the wii-u is not doing that great either.


it's not even bad news lol, it's the fact that stores in Japan have PS4's in stock.

It's only bad news if they didnt sell many consoles...lol.

Did anyone think there would be stock shortages like US/UK/Europe who lets be honest are much bigger console gamers these days... If they do anything over 350k, I'm sure that will be a good thing. It will also mean they shipped a good trunk load of consoles.



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Fusioncode on 23 February 2014

It's over, console gaming is dead in Japan. Say goodbye to your JRPGs people. That FFVII remake? Yeah it's going to smartphones. Same for FFXV and Kingdom Hearts III.



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WebMasterFlex on 23 February 2014
Madword said:
As long as it sells more than the PS3, and more than the wii-u (which was remember in a holiday season), I think that will be considered a success.

I don't think the Doom comments help. PS4 is currently selling at record levels, it's outselling it's nearest competitor 2.1 in the USA, and nearly overtaken the Wii-u in less than 3 months, and people seem to get excited that there might be some bad selling news. It's one market we know has been turned off console gaming for a while, if it sells bad in Japan, then there is no hope in Japan for any console. MS haven't even got a date for XBO yet, and the wii-u is not doing that great either.

It's just a provocation, nice trolling. I mean it... they know PS4 will do crazy numbers Worlwide each week so you can make fun of Japan's launch.

Nothing wrong here. Be cool .



JoeTheBro on 23 February 2014

Short history lesson.

1998.11.27 [Sega Dreamcast] (¥29.800) - 101.490 (3 days)
2000.03.04 [Sony PlayStation 2] (¥39.800) - 630.552 (2 days)
2001.09.14 [Nintendo GameCube] (¥25.000) - 133.719 (3 days)
2002.02.22 [Microsoft XBox] (¥34.800) - 123.929 (3 days)
2005.12.10 [Microsoft XBox 360] (¥29.000 / ¥39.795) - 62.135 (2 days)
2006.11.11 [Sony PlayStation 3] (¥49.980 / ¥59.980) - 88.443 (2 days)
2006.12.02 [Nintendo Wii] (¥25.000) - 371.936 (2 days)
2012.12.08 [Nintendo Wii U] (¥26.250 / ¥31.500) - 308.570 (2 days)
2014.02.22 [Sony PlayStation 4] (¥41.979 / ¥46.179)- xxx.xxx (2 days)

People just have insanely high predictions.



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TheGoldenBoy on 23 February 2014
Fusioncode said:
It's over, console gaming is dead in Japan. Say goodbye to your JRPGs people. That FFVIII remake? Yeah it's going to smartphones. Same for FFXV and Kingdom Hearts III.


I thought it was Final Fantasy VII.



wangjingwanjia on 23 February 2014

Are there no Japanese people on this forum?





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Fusioncode on 23 February 2014
TheGoldenBoy said:
Fusioncode said:
It's over, console gaming is dead in Japan. Say goodbye to your JRPGs people. That FFVIII remake? Yeah it's going to smartphones. Same for FFXV and Kingdom Hearts III.


I thought it was Final Fantasy VII.

Whoops. I was blinded by doom. 



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Ninricken on 23 February 2014

I wouldn't say 'DOOOOOOM' but it is interesting to know^^



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TarHeeLsALLday on 23 February 2014
lucidium said:
TarHeeLsALLday said:
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
TarHeeLsALLday said:
Not surprised that it bombed in Japan at all. PS4 has no games that Japanese people want to play and home consoles have been on a huge decline over there.

Now Sony will have to turn their attention back to the Western side of the world and figure out how they are going to compete in March against Titanfall.

Funny how everyone knows what games japanese people want to play all of a sudden.


We know they don't want to play COD, BF, or KZ and well nobody wants to play Knack. I doubt anyone is going to shell out hundreds for a 2 hour MGS demo either. FF XV and KH III are probably years away as well.

Psst, initial reports have pegged BF as the third highest selling game, and KZ as the 6th highest selling.
And that  "2 hour demo" you talk about? that, that right there is the highest selling.

So yeah, what you "know" and reality, are completely different things.


Of course they will rank high because they are the only games available on PS4. What else are they going to buy?