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Forums - Gaming - When Will PS4 Surpass WiiU in Japan? (If it does)

cheshirescat on 29 June 2014
KLXVER said:

Well the WiiU is outselling it now even though its as you say VERY weak...

Coming off the heels of its biggest system seller, perhaps of the entire generation, and a month later they are both selling pretty much at the same rate.  Not only that but mk8 didn't increase the gap by much either.  I would like to see how the market reacts when the ps4 gets a japanese centric exclusive, that isn't cross gen, before making such bold proclamations.



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KLXVER on 29 June 2014
cheshirescat said:

Coming off the heels of its biggest system seller, perhaps of the entire generation, and a month later they are both selling pretty much at the same rate.  Not only that but mk8 didn't increase the gap by much either.  I would like to see how the market reacts when the ps4 gets a japanese centric exclusive, that isn't cross gen, before making such bold proclamations.


Nintendo is getting those. Super Smash Bros., Hyrule Warriors, Xenoblade Chronicles X, ZeldaU etc...



Wyrdness on 29 June 2014

Don't know if it will tbh, PS3 had all the heavy hitters and still couldn't tempt the Japanese audience.



bubblegamer on 29 June 2014
EricFabian said:

Is not. But PS4 is not a runaway sucess in Japan too. So my point stands

A prediction is opinion based not a fact, so no points made. The games coming to PS4 will not be solely based on it's Japanese performance, if that was the case you could be right, but the western install base has a lot of sway as games like FF sell more than 60% in the west alone.



Wyrdness on 29 June 2014
cheshirescat said:

Coming off the heels of its biggest system seller, perhaps of the entire generation, and a month later they are both selling pretty much at the same rate.  Not only that but mk8 didn't increase the gap by much either.  I would like to see how the market reacts when the ps4 gets a japanese centric exclusive, that isn't cross gen, before making such bold proclamations.



PS4 has been outsold in Japan by the U for a while now even before MK8.



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Rustuv on 29 June 2014

I'd say this is still pretty hard to predict at this point. Currently the WiiU has a handsome lead on the PS4, but not to a earth shattering degree. Nintendo is going to have a handful of games come out this year that may grow that lead in Japan. And their 2015 line up looks very capable of taking Sony on in Japan. That being said it's still early and Sony might just need a game like Kingdom Hearts to shift the tide there.



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EricFabian on 29 June 2014
bubblegamer said:

A prediction is opinion based not a fact, so no points made. The games coming to PS4 will not be solely based on it's Japanese performance, if that was the case you could be right, but the western install base has a lot of sway as games like FF sell more than 60% in the west alone.


but this thread is about japanese market.

 

And you agreed with me now.  ;)



Blood_Tears on 29 June 2014
Wyrdness said:

PS4 has been outsold in Japan by the U for a while now even before MK8.

1 week before MK8 released actually which makes it 4 weeks in a row so far with the data on this website.



DerNebel on 29 June 2014
EricFabian said:
DerNebel said:
EricFabian said:

but japanese developers jumped aboard PS3. And even that way, Wii outsold it

...Yeah, because the Wii was a runaway success. How hard is it to understand that Wii U is not remotely comparable to the Wii in terms of success?

Is not. But PS4 is not a runaway sucess in Japan too. So my point stands

It isn't, but this brings us back to my initial point... we won't see what the PS4 can really do in Japan until the system starts getting a steady stream of games for that market. The console moving performance of MK8 (aka the biggest game the Wii U'll probably ever get) in Japan has painted a pretty bleak picture for the console over there, it's now up to the PS4 to get games from japanese third parties (which it will) and show if it can do better than the Wii U.

Sales right now are not really representative of what the PS4 can do in Japan.



drake_tolu on 29 June 2014
JoeTheBro said:

2 million PS4s and 2 and a half million Wii Us by the end of the year. So I'll go with early 2015.

WHAT!?!?!?!?!

2,000,000 PS4!? O_O

You know that PS4 will sell 50,000 on week for this number?

And they sell less of 10,000!
IMHO, PS4 don't passed 1,000,000 this year, maximum 1,100,000.