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Forums - Sales Discussion - September NPD 2018 thread, results up! PS4 421K; NSW 259K; XB1 176K; 3DS 81K

 

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Kerotan on 20 October 2018
Qwark said:
Nate4Drake said:

Sorry, what is dead in Japan ?  I think I didn't get your point, if any.

Sales in Japan for PS4 are pretty bad lately, excluding the week the PS4 pro got a price cut, it sells less than 20k every week even in weeks with pretty big releases even for the Japanese market like Spidey, it didn't get a noticable boost. 

I get your point but as a country it ain't dead. The USA might be the only country atm that sells more ps4 per week then Japan. Its the only country that has a higher LTD. I accept ps4 isn't on fire in Japan but its far from dead. 

melbye said:
Keiji said:

I see a lot of people buying a PS4 thanks to RD2.

But it won't push PS4 sales the way Spider-Man did, i don't think PS4 will be anywhere near 400k

Probably not but spiderman is still pushing ps4 sales in October. Couple that with bo4 and rdr2 it could come pretty close. Hard to call actually. October will probably be slightly down. 



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Nate4Drake on 20 October 2018
Qwark said:
Nate4Drake said:

Sorry, what is dead in Japan ?  I think I didn't get your point, if any.

Sales in Japan for PS4 are pretty bad lately, excluding the week the PS4 pro got a price cut, it sells less than 20k every week even in weeks with pretty big releases even for the Japanese market like Spidey, it didn't get a noticable boost. 

Well, I will say something very obvious, and everybody knows already, but for some unknown reasons many tend to forget about.  Japan is a "very special" Market, japanese gamers have their own taste, and it's basicly impossible to sell great for a Console mainly oriented for the west.  Is Microsoft XBox a bad console with no good games? Hell no, there are plenty of great games, and with XBox One X you have the best multiplatform experience.  Do Japan care about ? XBox is dying there and nobody cares about.  And look at the Switch ? It offers the absolute worse multiplatform experience, weak support from 3rd party dev/publishers, the worse graphics and sound experience, and it is selling very good, much better than PS4.  It's the way the Nintendo console is conceived, it is small, cool and also a PORTABLE CONSOLE ! The console itself and Its games appeal to the japanese market.  

Is PS4 dead in Japan ? Obsolutely not. Of course not, I would never use words like this.  I would rather say that the Japan Market is dying, if a good console like XBox One is dying there.  Forza Horizon 4 is a mindblowing game, but look, japanese gamers don't care. They only care about their own taste, their own little world and don't even try to expand it.

 The gaming experience is moving forward, but it appears they don't care. So considering this, PS4 is doing good in Japan.  No boost when great games are released? Does it mean that a cosole is dead there ? It is not the console dead, THEY are "dead", stuck for years to the same things. 


  


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Miyamotoo on 20 October 2018
Train wreck said:

October 2017 NPD was the following guesstimates (Resetera):
Switch <300K
Ps4 ~ 193,000 - 213,000 (~205k given)
XB1 ~ 127,000 - 137,000

I can see both the Xbox one and PS4 being up year on year due to COD and RDR2, Switch with the Smash bundle coming out the last day of tracking might be difficult to reach the 300k with Benji saying the Switch is soft.

Benji don't have insight in preorders, NPD predicting tool that was quite accurate until now shows that Switch so far is doing quite strong with preorders.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8904230

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=235297&page=97



shakarak on 20 October 2018

Really seems all three consoles are still selling fairly well. I'm going to guess that Looking at sales it seems like the PS4 will likely to be the next PS1 at this point. While Switch seems likely to have sales around the SNES.



PotentHerbs on 20 October 2018

I see PS4 taking October as well. RDR2, COD & Fifa marketing/ bundles.



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PortisheadBiscuit on 20 October 2018
shakarak said:
While Switch seems likely to have sales around the SNES.

49 million lifetime for Switch? Dunno about that one... 



zorg1000 on 20 October 2018
shakarak said:
Really seems all three consoles are still selling fairly well. I'm going to guess that Looking at sales it seems like the PS4 will likely to be the next PS1 at this point. While Switch seems likely to have sales around the SNES.

Only ~50 million for Switch? It's at 40% of that in 1.5 years and only 1 holiday season.



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Vizigoth04 on 20 October 2018
globalisateur said:
bananaking21 said:

Did you really expect Kingdom hearts 3 to have a huge impact on PS4 sales? An even bigger one than Spiderman or RDR? Because the way you're wording it seems to Indicate that KH3 was going to catapult PS4 sales. Honestly I doubt it will have any affect at all. Maybe a slight bump that week in Japan.

I expect PS4 to sell 100k in Japan when kingdom heart 3 is released. It sold 140k when Monster Hunter world was released. Great post Kyuu !

Ace Combat 7, KH3 and RE 2 Remake. All in January.



jonathanalis on 20 October 2018

Switch not going well.
20 million seems unreachable.



Mr.GameCrazy on 20 October 2018
PortisheadBiscuit said:
shakarak said:
While Switch seems likely to have sales around the SNES.

49 million lifetime for Switch? Dunno about that one... 

Me neither. It's selling too fast for that to be the case.