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ZODIARKrebirth on 06 January 2018

sounds good, wonder how much monster hunter can push the ps4 in japan



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OTBWY on 06 January 2018

Ok, so not so long ago I made a Famitsu numbers thread and a bunch came to discredit Famitsu. So now that we have established that Famitsu is credible, we can say the Switch sold 300K last week in Japan.



DonFerrari on 06 January 2018
OTBWY said:
Ok, so not so long ago I made a Famitsu numbers thread and a bunch came to discredit Famitsu. So now that we have established that Famitsu is credible, we can say the Switch sold 300K last week in Japan.

Does the OP have anything to do with the people that discredit Famitsu?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 06 January 2018
CGI-Quality said:
ABizzel1 said:

By all means PS4 should be doing much better than PS3 in JP  

And why is that?

Perhaps more japanese centric games launched?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 06 January 2018
CGI-Quality said:
DonFerrari said:

Perhaps more japanese centric games launched?

In the same time-frame? What games?

Not sure, I don't follow Japan sales and releases in a long time. That is why I used perhaps and a question mark.

I just remember Shu Yoshida remark 2 or 3 years ago saying PS4 was reviving Japan console game scene.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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Kerotan on 06 January 2018
RolStoppable said:
zorg1000 said:

Numbers arent out until Tuesday

Should be up year over year as well, but Media Create's numbers for 2017 will add up to only ~1.80m as opposed to Famitsu's 1.93m.

3DS and Switch have similar discrepancies (~100k) between the two trackers for yearly numbers in 2017.

It will be pretty much flat YOY with mediacreate. 

Lafiel said:
MrRoops said:
So 10m+ Lt or can it hit 15m if price and games are just right in the future ?

it's afaik currently tracking slightly above the PS3 that did 10.5m lt and MHW should give it another good stimulus, but with the Switch very likely dominating the market from here on out even reaching 10m+ will be a tough/long battle depending on how many JPN 3rd parties go straight to NSW (and even PS4/NSW games could harm PS4 sales)

for 15m the PS4 would need an epic killer app that amplifies hw sales for months to come and with MH there is a small chance for that to happen there .. other than MHW there isn't much on the horizon that could do this especially as pretty much all traditional medium to big jpn 3rd party franchises already had their chance (still FF7R maybe?, total mega dark horse being Gran Blue?)

Ps4 for the first few years had to put up with the 3ds dominating the market as well as sharing most of its games with the ps3 and psv. Also a little competition from the Wii u. 

 

Now all it has is switch as a rival. It won't hamper it. Personally I think ps4 will do ps3 numbers around 10m. They would need to release a ps4 portable to boost numbers to 15m.

DonFerrari said:
Unprecendeted growth.

So many doubted this. 

CGI-Quality said:
ABizzel1 said:

By all means PS4 should be doing much better than PS3 in JP  

And why is that?

Well it's doing exponentially better for Sony this gen in terms of profit. So there's that at least. 



kazuyamishima on 06 January 2018

By the complete dominance of the handhelds in Japan, achieving the same amount of what the PS3 did in Japan, will be a huge thing for sure.



DonFerrari on 06 January 2018
Kerotan said:
RolStoppable said:

Should be up year over year as well, but Media Create's numbers for 2017 will add up to only ~1.80m as opposed to Famitsu's 1.93m.

3DS and Switch have similar discrepancies (~100k) between the two trackers for yearly numbers in 2017.

It will be pretty much flat YOY with mediacreate. 

Lafiel said:

it's afaik currently tracking slightly above the PS3 that did 10.5m lt and MHW should give it another good stimulus, but with the Switch very likely dominating the market from here on out even reaching 10m+ will be a tough/long battle depending on how many JPN 3rd parties go straight to NSW (and even PS4/NSW games could harm PS4 sales)

for 15m the PS4 would need an epic killer app that amplifies hw sales for months to come and with MH there is a small chance for that to happen there .. other than MHW there isn't much on the horizon that could do this especially as pretty much all traditional medium to big jpn 3rd party franchises already had their chance (still FF7R maybe?, total mega dark horse being Gran Blue?)

Ps4 for the first few years had to put up with the 3ds dominating the market as well as sharing most of its games with the ps3 and psv. Also a little competition from the Wii u. 

 

Now all it has is switch as a rival. It won't hamper it. Personally I think ps4 will do ps3 numbers around 10m. They would need to release a ps4 portable to boost numbers to 15m.

DonFerrari said:
Unprecendeted growth.

So many doubted this. 

CGI-Quality said:

And why is that?

Well it's doing exponentially better for Sony this gen in terms of profit. So there's that at least. 

He is asking why PS4 is selling better than PS3 not how or why it's generating more profits.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Kerotan on 11 January 2018
kazuyamishima said:
By the complete dominance of the handhelds in Japan, achieving the same amount of what the PS3 did in Japan, will be a huge thing for sure.

Not only that but it's so much more profitable then the ps3 was.