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Pinkie_pie said:
curl-6 said:

A console by itself is just a means through which to play games. Judging from not only hardware sales but also the software charts, it would seem the Japanese are simply more interested in playing the games offered by the Switch, from Pokemon to Splatoon 2 to Smash Bros.

Only 3 PS4 games sold over a million in Japan in the almost 5 years it was out until VGC tracking ended at the close of 2018, while Switch already had 5 million sellers in Japan after less than 2 years.

Ps4 has over one hundred games that sold at least 100k in japan Switch probably not even 1/3 of that. Japan is the only country that switch has outsold the ps4 and if you dont think portability is the biggest reason then you are delusional

PS4 has been out more than 3 years longer than the Switch, of course it has more games over the extremely low mark of 100k. Selling 100k isn't an achievement.

I'm curious, how would you explain Switch already having more million sellers than PS4 while being out less than half the time? Or the portable Vita selling less than the non-portable PS4?

Last edited by curl-6 - on 31 May 2019

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curl-6 said:
Pinkie_pie said:

Ps4 has over one hundred games that sold at least 100k in japan Switch probably not even 1/3 of that. Japan is the only country that switch has outsold the ps4 and if you dont think portability is the biggest reason then you are delusional

PS4 has been out more than 3 years longer than the Switch, of course it has more games over the extremely low mark of 100k. Selling 100k isn't an achievement.

I'm curious, how would you explain Switch already having more million sellers than PS4 while being out less than half the time? Or the portable Vita selling less than the non-portable PS4?

You just wouldnt admit portability is the biggest reason why the switch outsold the ps4 in japan would you? Wii u had more 1 million sellers than vita but it didnt sell half as much as the vita i wonder why



Pinkie_pie said:
curl-6 said:

PS4 has been out more than 3 years longer than the Switch, of course it has more games over the extremely low mark of 100k. Selling 100k isn't an achievement.

I'm curious, how would you explain Switch already having more million sellers than PS4 while being out less than half the time? Or the portable Vita selling less than the non-portable PS4?

You just wouldnt admit portability is the biggest reason why the switch outsold the ps4 in japan would you? Wii u had more 1 million sellers than vita but it didnt sell half as much as the vita i wonder why

Because the Wii U was a horribly designed, horribly marketed system crippled by an unappealing gimmick that nobody wanted or asked for. People who did buy it bought its flagship software in large numbers, but the hardware itself was unattractive to the mass market.



curl-6 said:
Pinkie_pie said:

You just wouldnt admit portability is the biggest reason why the switch outsold the ps4 in japan would you? Wii u had more 1 million sellers than vita but it didnt sell half as much as the vita i wonder why

Because the Wii U was a horribly designed, horribly marketed system crippled by an unappealing gimmick that nobody wanted or asked for. People who did buy it bought its flagship software in large numbers, but the hardware itself was unattractive to the mass market.

Didnt you say its all about the games? Wii u had better software than vita ever had but it only sold half as much as the vita. Let me tell you the biggest reason why wii u only sold half as much as the vita. Because vita was portable and wii u wasnt



Pinkie_pie said:
curl-6 said:

Because the Wii U was a horribly designed, horribly marketed system crippled by an unappealing gimmick that nobody wanted or asked for. People who did buy it bought its flagship software in large numbers, but the hardware itself was unattractive to the mass market.

Didnt you say its all about the games? Wii u had better software than vita ever had but it only sold half as much as the vita. Let me tell you the biggest reason why wii u only sold half as much as the vita. Because vita was portable and wii u wasnt

Games are the biggest factor, but even the biggest factor can't necessarily outweigh every other factor being in opposition. Your argument falls apart as soon as we consider that the PS4, a home console, outsold the Vita, a contemporaneous portable.



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curl-6 said:
Pinkie_pie said:

Didnt you say its all about the games? Wii u had better software than vita ever had but it only sold half as much as the vita. Let me tell you the biggest reason why wii u only sold half as much as the vita. Because vita was portable and wii u wasnt

Games are the biggest factor, but even the biggest factor can't necessarily outweigh every other factor being in opposition. Your argument falls apart as soon as we consider that the PS4, a home console, outsold the Vita, a contemporaneous portable.

Your argument falls apart as soon as we consider that the vita, a portable with no 1st party support and no AAA 3rd party games, sold twice as much as the wii u which had many 1st party AAA games and a few AAA 3rd party games 



Pinkie_pie said:
curl-6 said:

Games are the biggest factor, but even the biggest factor can't necessarily outweigh every other factor being in opposition. Your argument falls apart as soon as we consider that the PS4, a home console, outsold the Vita, a contemporaneous portable.

Your argument falls apart as soon as we consider that the vita, a portable with no 1st party support and no AAA 3rd party games, sold twice as much as the wii u which had many 1st party AAA games and a few AAA 3rd party games 

Except it doesn't because I already explained that the Wii U was crippled by an unwanted and fundamentally flawed concept and Vita had no such handicap.

So I ask you yet again, why did the PS4 outsell the Vita if portability is the deciding factor? The more you refuse to answer, the more obvious it becomes that your premise is flawed.



What the fuck are we arguing now? Vita? Wii U? Who gives a fuck they both sold like shit? The best companies can learn is not make same mistake twice and let me tell you they were both mistakes. They both been aborted if Alabama didn't pass that pro incest law. I blame Alabama for Japanese companies mistakes.



curl-6 said:
Pinkie_pie said:

Your argument falls apart as soon as we consider that the vita, a portable with no 1st party support and no AAA 3rd party games, sold twice as much as the wii u which had many 1st party AAA games and a few AAA 3rd party games 

Except it doesn't because I already explained that the Wii U was crippled by an unwanted and fundamentally flawed concept and Vita had no such handicap.

So I ask you yet again, why did the PS4 outsell the Vita if portability is the deciding factor? The more you refuse to answer, the more obvious it becomes that your premise is flawed.

Lol you said its all about the games and now its this and that but no mention of portability being the reason why vita outsold the wii u. What flawed concept did the wii u had that it only sold half as much as the vita? That flawed concept is because it wasnt portable 



Pinkie_pie said:
curl-6 said:

Except it doesn't because I already explained that the Wii U was crippled by an unwanted and fundamentally flawed concept and Vita had no such handicap.

So I ask you yet again, why did the PS4 outsell the Vita if portability is the deciding factor? The more you refuse to answer, the more obvious it becomes that your premise is flawed.

Lol you said its all about the games and now its this and that but no mention of portability being the reason why vita outsold the wii u. What flawed concept did the wii u had that it only sold half as much as the vita? That flawed concept is because it wasnt portable 

Everything about the Wii U was flawed except the games. As a concept it was fundamentally broken.

But we've made a breakthrough here; you call the Vita "a portable with no 1st party support and no AAA third party games". We are in agreement; it is its library that let it down, hence why it was outsold in Japan by the PS4 in Japan; because the PS4, while lacking portability, offered more games that Japanese gamers wanted to play. The Switch outsold the PS4 for the same reason; because it offers games that better appeal to the particular tastes of Japanese gamers. The software charts confirm this.