| Rab said: Switch is a strong beast, this looks to be PS4 last year |
Eh, next year it should still easily do above/around 50% of this year. However with two solid games released already, this is going to be rough really quickly for PS4 in Japan if it does not get price cut.
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Not if it gets a price cut. In it's 6th year surely? |
Depends when it happens, but for now it seems unrealistic.
NSMBUD is back at #1. Didn't sell a ton when it launched, but looks like it is going to have good legs. Mario Odyssey is also back on the charts after being off a couple of weeks. It used to sell near Zelda levels, but now it is a lot lower. I think NSMBUD kind of took its spot as the Mario game to get.
Splatoon 2 also below Zelda this week. I wonder if that is a fluke or if the legs have permanently dropped on Splatoon 2? Maybe Smash is the new hot online multiplayer game and it cut into Splatoon 2 sales?
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You can already tell by the declining popularity of playstation in Japan that the PS5 is going to be something like the Switch.
Unless Sony doesn't care about the Japanese market anymore.
Kerotan said:
What did it sell at retail in 2018? |
3.1m shipment
2.88m in 2018 physical+Digital sellthrough
Retail mc 2.35m
| TheGamer_1995 said: You can already tell by the declining popularity of playstation in Japan that the PS5 is going to be something like the Switch. Unless Sony doesn't care about the Japanese market anymore. |
Not gonna happen. They can't make a hybrid that is a significant leap over PS4 and with AAA 3rd party games being 50-100gb (or more next-gen) they cant go with carts like Switch does.
Following in Switch's footsteps would alienate their western audience and AAA publishers which would basically be handing Microsoft a NES/PS2 level monopoly in the home console market.
When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.
| TheGamer_1995 said: You can already tell by the declining popularity of playstation in Japan that the PS5 is going to be something like the Switch. Unless Sony doesn't care about the Japanese market anymore. |
They do and they do not need Japan. PS5 will be a traditional console, because Sony has more world wide impact, however, they will lose traction over Japan overtime, but at the same time it won't matter much because the major publishers are also moving more to western focus as well, so games like Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter will be on PS5.
At most because of the decline of the brand (Playstation) in Japan will attribute to lower smaller focused games moving all resources to incorporate PS4/PS5, Switch/Switch 2 and PC or complete abandon that section and move to mobile.
Acevil said:
They do and they do not need Japan. PS5 will be a traditional console, because Sony has more world wide impact, however, they will lose traction over Japan overtime, but at the same time it won't matter much because the major publishers are also moving more to western focus as well, so games like Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter will be on PS5. At most because of the decline of the brand (Playstation) in Japan will attribute to lower smaller focused games moving all resources to incorporate PS4/PS5, Switch/Switch 2 and PC or complete abandon that section and move to mobile. |
Precisely. The big games have all done super well on PS4, so there's no reasons for RE, FF, DQ, and MH to skip PS5. There's going to be lot of multiplatform games as Japanese developers consider the West more and more with their games.
outlawauron said:
Precisely. The big games have all done super well on PS4, so there's no reasons for RE, FF, DQ, and MH to skip PS5. There's going to be lot of multiplatform games as Japanese developers consider the West more and more with their games. |
And small-medium sized titles catered to Japan will be on PS4/Switch/PS5 which is the natural progression from these titles being PS3/Vita/PS4.
Sony will probably just be content to sell ~10 million consoles in Japan and 100+ million in the West.
When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.
| LGBTDBZBBQ said: Smash has over 500K digital sales in Japan according to Nintendo sell-through number at 31 Dec. So ltd number should be over 3.3m at this point. |
Its over 3.38mil now. Digital was 550k+ by week 4
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