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The Switch not letting go, japan could be helpful in taking it to 160 millions



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Sephiran said:
CosmicSex said:

Again the most boring chart around lol. The US chart is far more exciting. People play more than just games from a single publisher lol!

Funny that argument doesn't show up in European sales threads when it turns out they buy PS5 to play EA Sports FC and CoD. When Nintendo benefits from people buying their console to play the same games its boring, but when PS dominates Europe on the backs of the same games every year its not boring?

In Europe you just mentioned Sony, Microsoft and EA.  And guess what, Nintendo benefits too because the market has diverse tastes.  Its only Japan where everyone else besides Nintendo is shut out.  Thats why Japan is boring.  No competition.  And thats bad for consumers.  Even if it was just Sony in the charts in Japan that would be boring too.  We want competition. 



Mano777 said:

Reading the messages made me curious, what were the Japanese charts like 20 years ago?

You can use Niche Barrier to look that up:

https://nichebarrier.com/weekly/2006-01-15



Whose fault for Nintendo dominating Japan ? Sony’s fault lmao



Mano777 said:

Reading the messages made me curious, what were the Japanese charts like 20 years ago?

Nintendo was even then dominant. 

However, there was remarkable Playstation presence and something more than that, since you set a timeline where a wild PSP appeared.

Maybe Japanese Playstationers have gone digital. 

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Ashadelo said:
tak13 said:

Nintendo Switch 27k in its ninth year.
Lite once again the top selling form...
73k in three weeks...
24.333 weekly base line so far.
Of course it will slow down sometime after March.
However, It's showing signs that it can sell a million...

160 million easy

It won't be easy, but not out of reach as a lot people think. 

Time will tell. 

If switch keeps that weekly baseline, then we can hope. 

5m left to go.

Selling 1m in Japan this year

, facilitates that aim.

Does anyone know if Tomodachi life living the dream  Q2  release time frame is calendar or financial? 

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PS5 deadier than death.



One of the greatest perks of being a VGChartz Bronze Supporter is the ability to ignore certain users— it's working wonders in this thread. Lol! Too many console warriors on these sales threads. Yes, Nintendo dominates Japan... but we've known this since the dawn of time. I suggest you can it if you've got nothing new to add.



yanis-bnth said:

Whose fault for Nintendo dominating Japan ? Sony’s fault lmao

No one is taking about Sony.  We are talking about anyone.  Like where is anybody? Like I said, if it was all dominated by Sony and Sony games, that would be just as bad.  Get past the console wars and try to understand what I am saying.