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Forums - Sales - Japan Gaming on a HUGE Decline In HW Sales (Gen to Gen), We Need To Talk About It! [20.6mil ~77.3mil]

 

Total Sales For This Gen in Japan???

Under 30mil O.o 38 38.00%
 
30mil-32mil 7 7.00%
 
32mil-34mil 3 3.00%
 
34mil-36mil 7 7.00%
 
36mil-38mil 12 12.00%
 
38mil-40mil 3 3.00%
 
40mil-45mil 6 6.00%
 
45mil+ *Miracle 23 23.00%
 
Total:99
gigantor21 on 20 May 2014
ICStats said:
It's not looking too good, but it's very early days for PS4. We don't know what it can do when it gets more games for that market.

Even so, it'd have to be PS2 level just to offset the decline in handhelds and the WiiU flopping. Hell, even that might not be enough at this rate. :/



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AnthonyW86 on 20 May 2014
Pavolink said:
AnthonyW86 said:
But but... XOne hasn't launched there yet!

Seriously though you shouldn't ad home consoles and handhelds together, even worldwide and without counting Wii that would mean a massive decline purely because of the fall of handhelds(and rise of phones/tablet).

If we look purely at home consoles PS4+Wii-U probably won't be far off PS3+ Wii in the long run.

PS3+Wii did 23M

PS4+Wii U will be luck to cross the 12M line

That's way too low, Wii-U is already closing in on 2m. It still has it's biggest games coming and a lot of room for price cuts. Wii-U alone will sell 4m to 5m at the very least.

PS4 has just begun and no notable games have launched yet that appeal to the Japanese market. And don't forget it launched in February, it hasn't seen a holiday season yet in Japan. Even the Wii-U was doing 3k in October last year and enden up selling more than half of the years sales in November and December.

 

Without any major competition i still expect the PS4 to outsell the PS3. Give it a year and things will look very different.



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AnthonyW86 on 20 May 2014
tbone51 said:
Pavolink said:
tbone51 said:
Pavolink said:
I'm expecting at best 15M-18M more devices sold. And that being generous. Not even half of the last one.

I didn't add it to the op but gcn/ps2 era had 44.6mil and thats with just 1 portable. Looking terrible overall, imagine if 3ds wasnt a success :0


Yep. Even before launch I said no console will reach its predecessor numbers and we will see a decline, but never imagined to this point.


PS4 is a huge "?" cuz ig might have a chance to do 50%+ of PS3 but its too early to tell as of now.

X1 will easily be over 50% cuz X360 is a mere 1.6mil.

3DS will hit 50%+ before holiday. Vita no way it hits 50% of psp. WiiU obviously wont be hitting 40% of Wii.


PS4 selling just half of what PS3 did in Japan is a joke. Wii-U is now over 1.7m in Japan, PS3 was just over 2m in Japan in May 2008.  I think everyone expects PS4 to outsell the Wii - U so that means it could outsell the PS3 aswell.



greencactaur on 20 May 2014

I still think in the long run PS4 will rise drastically in Japan and do decent once the Japanese devs start releasing the games they've been working on.



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arcelonious on 20 May 2014

Until more Japan-appealing titles release for the PS4, it's far too early to reliably predict the performance of the PS4 in Japan. The console has only been in the market there for about three months, and many of the first round of potential, heavy-hitting titles still have yet to be released, such as Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III, which have a bigger shot at boosting PS4/Xbox One sales because those titles are not cross-generational like some of the early PS4 Japanese launch titles, like Ishin!.



aikohualda on 20 May 2014

LOL na OP is afraid of sony minions...

he put *still going, but i guess it does not apply to wii u and 3ds cause they already reached the max sales :P



 

nitekrawler1285 on 20 May 2014

Given how incompetent SE are and how long it will take for FFXV I don't see much lifting PS4s fortunes in Japan any time soon. Does any big system moving Japanese game have a release date from any publisher? I can't see PS4 being more successful in Japan than Vita to be honest. It's gonna take too long to get enough good games and get momentum going. Luckily western games like TLoU, Battlefield, CoD, AssCreed and GTA are gaining in popularity over there. It may help it do a little better than Vita ultimately.



hiska-kun on 21 May 2014
PigPen said:

A lot of people lost jobs in Japan so I can see the slump. They don't have unemployment. Handhelds rule there anyway.

What the he** and nonsense are you talking about?



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tbone51 on 21 May 2014
hiska-kun said:
PigPen said:

A lot of people lost jobs in Japan so I can see the slump. They don't have unemployment. Handhelds rule there anyway.

What the he** and nonsense are you talking about?



He might be rigght!!!! Were about to find out in less than 9 hours :P Oh yeah forgot to mention to you (Hardware) Apr 20th week was by far the lowest this year. I think if its under 67k for japan in might be lowest in years!! Crazy!