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Forums - Gaming - Will Sony's PlayStation 4 Be a Bigger Flop Than Nintendo's Wii U in Japan?

If there is ever a thread that needs to be bumped a year from now, it's this one.

It's kind of funny because the answer is actually in the OP, even if it's cluttered up with the childish stuff. Third party support. The PS4 will have the same Japanese exclusives that the PS3 had. Japanese developers are a lot slower to switch systems, that's been well established in the past, so it's just going to take awhile before they drop PS3 support. When they do, the PS4 will be the system they release games for.

I expect TGS to get some big announcements this year and next, with most of the games releasing late 2015 or in 2016.

Now, for context, I said the exact same thing about the Vita over a year ago. I said that it would take awhile for developers to switch from the PSP but when they did, it would get a fair amount of games. Actually, several of the people in this thread said I was wrong, that all those developers would jump to the 3DS, and that the Vita would be abandoned in Japan. Right now, it's probably getting more third party support than the 3DS. I expect the same thing to happen with the PS4 and I expect the exact same people to argue otherwise.



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I don't live in japan,so I don't care. I'm going to enjoy so called hollywood games,while you ponder this pointless question.



Sigh.... sensationalist thread of a sensationalist article with a clear lack of understanding of how the industry works.

Simply put, games sell hardware. PS4 sales are expectedly low in japan cause there are no japan centric games available for it yet.

When FFXV, MGS5, KH3, RE7 are released (all games that will not be on the wiiU by the way) then we can come back and have this conversation. The PS4 hasn't even been in japan for more than 3 months.



Honestly, i think Wii U will sell more of PS4 in Japan... i predct 8,000,000 of Wii U, and 7,000,000 of PS4.
In the rest of world, PS4 will sell much more.



Another thread I'll bump in a few months.



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I would until 2015/2016 before deciding the fate of the system there. Japan is late to jump over on consoles from one generation to the next these days. When the middle to late generation sees tons of titles coming to the system if it is still struggling then I don't see any hope for console gaming in Japan.



My question is how come you so happy to have a flop console you felt it is...??



Ps4 also hasn't hade a holiday season yet, and Wii-U was selling half of what PS4 is selling now last year in May.



no, too early.
soon wii U will get discontinued(2017, 2018), and ps4 will be there for some more years.



I had a great laugh from the OP. Wait until the Japanese devs actually switch to PS4 before making that statement. Also try not being so salty in your opening statement, it shows all your true colors.