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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan sales (Week 13): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - March 26- April 1, 2018

MasterThief on 05 April 2018
Jranation said:
MasterThief said:

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?

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

Sony doesn't seem to be interested, and they just don't want to bother with Japan first party wise anymore 



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Megiddo on 05 April 2018
Jranation said:
MasterThief said:

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?

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

What other online shooter was on the Wii U to compete with Splatoon?



Jranation on 05 April 2018
Megiddo said:
Jranation said:

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

What other online shooter was on the Wii U to compete with Splatoon?

There was call of duty. But I guess what you are trying to say is that for a new IP to explode (like splatoon) it needs to stand out on the library of games on the console. 

 

Splatoon is a very different game compared to the recent shooters we get. Good job on Nintendo for doing something different, and the reward for it was great! 

 

It also became a huge surprise to almost everyone on how successful it did on a failed console. 



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Jranation on 05 April 2018
MasterThief said:
Jranation said:

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

Sony doesn't seem to be interested, and they just don't want to bother with Japan first party wise anymore 

They could have done something with the PsVita....... but nope. I believe the best selling game on the Vita was Minecraft? (it did 1mil+ in Japan alone) but guess who owns that now? 

 

Would love to see the sales of Minecraft on Switch, since I see it rank high in the Japanese eshop chart. 



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emhang on 05 April 2018

2018 media create sales ranking

(http://salesdatabase.net/ranking2018)

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Miyamotoo on 05 April 2018
Shadow1980 said:

Good job, it seems that current Switch base line is 40-50k while for PS4 is 20-30k, looking forward to see what effect Labo will have on Switch sales.

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Faelco on 05 April 2018
Megiddo said:

Again, we will see. Typically consoles are not near-impossible to find online if there's sufficient stock in stores. Maybe Sony just hates online retailers or something. I can't physically look at every single physical store in Japan, but I can track online availability. And everything that I've seen in the past 2-3 weeks at least points to a shortage. Maybe it's just an online shortage? That would be something.

Rakuten: https://search.rakuten.co.jp/search/mall/ps4+%E6%9C%AC%E4%BD%93/?f=1&grp=product

Toys R Us: https://www.toysrus.co.jp/c001060090010/

Nojima: https://online.nojima.co.jp/category/10971/?currentPage=1

For small info, I went to my local Bic Camera in Tokyo this morning because I want to buy a PS4. I didn't check the shelves behind the counter but they had tickets available to buy the 500G PS4 and the PS4 Pro. Nothing left for the 1T PS4 and another model (White one?). So not a complete shortage but definitely some issues, and it's not the first time lately that I see this.

By the way, while going out I saw one of the shelves behind the counters, no shortage for Switch there, the dedicated shelf seemed well furnished.



Megiddo on 05 April 2018

Thanks for that info. I believe both Bic Camera and Donki block foreigners from their website otherwise I'd definitely be tracking their online stock as well (if they have an online shop?)



Faelco on 05 April 2018
Megiddo said:
Thanks for that info. I believe both Bic Camera and Donki block foreigners from their website otherwise I'd definitely be tracking their online stock as well (if they have an online shop?)

You can try here for Bic Camera I think:

https://www.biccamera.com.e.lj.hp.transer.com/bc/main/

I don't think Donki has an online shop, and considering the mess Donki usually is, it's surely for the best!



Megiddo on 05 April 2018

Thanks! For whatever reason the one I tried to use for Bic Camera before kept giving me an error message.

https://www.biccamera.com.e.lj.hp.transer.com/bc/category/001/210/127/005/

Looks like everything is either backordered or completely sold out here as well.