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ThatDanishGamer said:

I really hope Final Fantasy 15 is lanching next year.


So do I.

OT: Are you from Copenhagen?



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teigaga said:
fleischr said:

It could very well have a worse one. For one thing, Japan's economy has slipped into recession.

The other : PS4's first year in Japan hasn't been remarkably better than the WiiU's. I don't think Japanese consumers have soured against Nintendo or Sony any much more than the other.

Japan is heavily front loaded.

The only reason it wouldn't is because of the systems launch week numbers (500k?). Otherwise Im expecting a much higher baseline. If FFXV, Street FIghter V, Deep Down, Tekken 7, Gundam and Persona 5 all get released in the fall we could quite easily have the PS4 achieve more then one 100k weeks next year which I think will outweigh the 2014's launch numbers.

Until we actually see a real baseline shift begin to grow even now, there's still no reason to expect any 100k+ weeks anytime in 2015 let alone several. PS4 sales are atrocious now- they need to meet a more acceptable level to gather enough momentum to do significantly better than this past year. 



I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016

fleischr said:
teigaga said:
fleischr said:

It could very well have a worse one. For one thing, Japan's economy has slipped into recession.

The other : PS4's first year in Japan hasn't been remarkably better than the WiiU's. I don't think Japanese consumers have soured against Nintendo or Sony any much more than the other.

Japan is heavily front loaded.

The only reason it wouldn't is because of the systems launch week numbers (500k?). Otherwise Im expecting a much higher baseline. If FFXV, Street FIghter V, Deep Down, Tekken 7, Gundam and Persona 5 all get released in the fall we could quite easily have the PS4 achieve more then one 100k weeks next year which I think will outweigh the 2014's launch numbers.

Until we actually see a real baseline shift begin to grow even now, there's still no reason to expect any 100k+ weeks anytime in 2015 let alone several. PS4 sales are atrocious now- they need to meet a more acceptable level to gather enough momentum to do significantly better than this past year. 

Last year the Wii U got one 100k week and one 80k week in december. I see no reason why the PS4 won't easily top that and have several weeks above 100k if the above line up is true. The only real If, Is FFXV which might be a 2016 release? Also we've already seen a baseline increase merely based on frequent quality games releases. Remember when the system was doing 6k? Baseline wise I also see no logic for why it would be down when you look at Q1s schedule.



LordLichtenstein said:
ThatDanishGamer said:

I really hope Final Fantasy 15 is lanching next year.


So do I.

OT: Are you from Copenhagen?


No, but I do live in the capital region of Denmark.



Don't copy random editorials.

ThatDanishGamer said:
LordLichtenstein said:
ThatDanishGamer said:

I really hope Final Fantasy 15 is lanching next year.


So do I.

OT: Are you from Copenhagen?


No, but I do live in the capital region of Denmark.


Cool, so do I. 

Jeg bor på Østerbro.



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1.Uncharted is big in Japan but not that big like Pokemon or Monster Hunter

2.Other western games are popular and sales a lot like a hot cake, example: GTA, Destiny etc (a lot)

3.E3 have a decent influence in announcing games on Japanese audience before there were no live streaming but now it has a bigger impact.

4. Without games PS4 selling good, with a decent games PS4 start slowly taking Wii u sales, imagine in the future

5. OP list only represent games that coming from Japanese developer (non western ).





If the PS4 had launched like this in Japan, ohhh boy! :D 2015 is looking better everyday. I hope deep down makes a reappearance as non f2p and gets localised



Voltaris said:

If the PS4 had launched like this in Japan, ohhh boy! :D 2015 is looking better everyday. I hope deep down makes a reappearance as non f2p and gets localised


Yeah, hopefully next year Japan will board the train :)


March is looking to be a killer month: Bloodborne, Disgaea 5 & Final Fantasy Type-0, which includes a demo of Final Fantasy XV. Oh and all titles is PS4 only. :) 



Barkley said:
PS4 sales in Japan will start to kick off next year!

Looking at that lineup of games, I can't see it NOT selling better. I think by late February the new seekly average will be 20k - 25k, give or take a spike or two. And perhaps by late 2015 it could be around 30k average.



 

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LordLichtenstein said:
Voltaris said:

If the PS4 had launched like this in Japan, ohhh boy! :D 2015 is looking better everyday. I hope deep down makes a reappearance as non f2p and gets localised


Yeah, hopefully next year Japan will board the train :)


March is looking to be a killer month: Bloodborne, Disgaea 5 & Final Fantasy Type-0, which includes a demo of Final Fantasy XV. Oh and all titles is PS4 only. :) 

I'm hoping for a monster hunter 5 annoucement for ps4 in tgs 2015, i feel its time for monster hunter to really go HD, maybe it can even be co-developed with studio japan, they can add it to their list full of "unannouced ps4 titles"