Ni no Kuni II had a better hold than I thought it would (thought it would drop like 90% because jprgs usually drop a lot in second week). Zelda selling more than Mario is surprising, though the difference between them is small. MHW kinda collapsing.

Pretty poor from SRW sadly, but at least it looks like it's a fairly cheaply-made sequel so shouldn't be a huge loss.

This is what i was trying to tell Megiddo last week in his PS4/NSW comparison.

Nintendo hardware gets a significantly stronger holiday boost than PS4 gets. Its not uncommon for Nintendo hardware to get 50% of its yearly sales just in Q4.

PS4 on the other gets a holiday boost but as you just showed its a far more mild boost and only slightly stronger than a regular quarter with the exception of 2016, but that was moreso from FFXV.

I do not disagree. Nintendo does perform much, much better in Q4 than Sony in terms of Japanese hardware sales. I think that will be a lot of fun to be tracking week by week as it happens.

Absolutely, im glad youre tracking it.

that was the case with all Japanese released not named MHW. Japan is just not interested in consoles unless they get the biggest titles

they want final fantasy, they want dragon quest, they want  kingdom hearts etc. the other problem is that a lot of these games that used to be only on playstation platform are now also on PC.  so it ends up being whatever 

Japan is no longer a major region for Sony. what was the last japanese focused first party title. must been like rogue galaxy?

Q4 is still trending up aside from FFXV, so there is a chance that PS4 is up YoY for 2018. Depends a lot on games, not sure there is anything big this year though. Price cut may have an effect, but Sony is shy in Japan in that respect.

Obviously Q4 should be up for Switch too.

Is MC the company that won't track online sales? How is it different from Dengeki and Famitsu?

While this is hardly an accurate way to estimate since sales can fluctuate so much, if you take the sales this week and divide by the number of units remaining to reach 6 million, you get...

Vita: 36.63 weeks to 6 million

Switch: 45.49 weeks to 6 million

Of course, Switch sales are likely to increase more than Vita with some releases on the horizon in the next six months, so this will certainly not be even close to how long it actually takes. Vita might even get a boost from something releasing.

Sooo we need more new IPs like Splatoon on consoles? Because that exploded in Japan.