You say 'anymore' as if you thought it WOULD do decent numbers in Japan in 2015. What changed your mind: the lack of games this year or the huge list of Japanese centric games next year?

That Ps4 drop though....

Bayonetta bombed hard. XBox one in triple digits next week?

they lack of japan games on wiiu manage to sell hardware or even do decent software units.

while mobile games are still big.

if japan dont care about 1080p and real life grafic fidelity, i donst see why ps4 hardware or ps4 japan games should do way better than the wii u and its games

is bloodborn bigger than pimkin?

is final fantasy bigger than mario kart?

is sony bigger than nintendo?

I'm going to be smug right back at you when I'm playing it :P

Yes, Nintendo financed it. And it may be true that they approached Sony and Microsoft for funding as well. But in the end they chose Nintendo and Wii U exclusivity, which means they will at least be expecting that it won't sell well.

They had the choice between releasing on a platform where there aren't as many potential buyers and not releasing at all. So financial success was never an option. But they won't go hungry since for them the game already paid off and moneywise the game doesn't need to sell a lot. At least not for Platinum.

That PS4 spike last week though ...

The first DKCR was on the Wii (Nintendo system) and actually sold 1 million units in Japan.

The first Bayonetta was on the PS3/360 (non Nintendo systems) and sold about 300k units in Japan.

Also DKCR was already a pretty leggy game in Japan it only sold about 15% of its lifetime units in its first week and about 65% after 4 weeks, the 3DS remake was also decently leggy, Bayonetta on the other hand sold over 65% of its japanese lifetime numbers in its first week (90% after 4 weeks) and the first Bayonetta reviewed just as well in Japan as the second did.

It's extremely improbable.

I still don't understand how you can draw that conclusion after we saw a pretty good TGS with lots of Japanese centric games announced for the PS4. Before the show I was totally unsure about how well the PS4 was going to do in Japan next year, but after the show I feel a little more confident it will do much better than this year. That to me is the logical progression of thinking, not the reverse ...

This was pretty much as expected. The game will be great but it's not going to be a sales success. People should just realize that.

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