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PigPen on 24 August 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
Saying they lost not even a year in? Yeah... ummm no, it's only just started no one has won or lost anything yet.


A year in, no.  Seven months in including its launch, yes.



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WhiteEaglePL on 24 August 2014

Since PS3, yes.



Alby_da_Wolf on 24 August 2014

They didn't lose Japan, they just can't remember where they put it.



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Mad55 on 24 August 2014

I think they will do fine in Japan, but the wiiu in my opinion will win Japan.



Fusioncode on 24 August 2014

Pretty sure Apple and Google own that market.



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The_Sony_Girl1 on 24 August 2014

Once it has a Major Japanese Third Party game in it, then it's set force life.



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The_Sony_Girl1 on 24 August 2014
XanderXT said:
The only reason it's losing is no Japanese third party support. And they haven't the nerve to make freaking Knack the Pack-In?


How did you know that was the Pack-In?



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small44 on 24 August 2014
Puppyroach said:
It's more the case of Japan losing interest in home consoles than anything else. This is also why we will never see a console reach the heights of PS2.

I understand people losing interstest in home consoles when 3rd party support is awful look at how Vita was doing awful before it get some support in the Handheld land isn't a proof that gamer just want a console with good games whatever it's a home console or handheld?



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DerNebel on 24 August 2014

The only thing that has done well in Japan up to this point in the gen is the 3DS, every other dedicated gaming system is doing varying degrees of horrible.

At the end of the day my bet for leading home console of the gen in Japan is still the PS4, it just won't show its real potential until japanese third parties made the jump.



PigPen on 24 August 2014
DerNebel said:
The only thing that has done well in Japan up to this point in the gen is the 3DS, every other dedicated gaming system is doing varying degrees of horrible.

At the end of the day my bet for leading home console of the gen in Japan is still the PS4, it just won't show its real potential until japanese third parties made the jump.


It's selling about 5,000 consoles a week.  Uncharted couldn't move the needle up to 10,000.