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PS4 surpasses 5M consoles sold in Japan
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super-famicom
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おめでとうございます
Sinfamy
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OfficerRaichu15
Member
Amazing sales
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Congrats. Hope it sells a bunch more and gets more Japanese developers get on board.
FreedomFighter
Member
5 million units is amazing number. Absolutely astonishing sales.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
It's time to make a Vita2 and curb stomp Nintendo.
Well, it's not really a "beast" in japan.
But it's doing well now for a home console.
Hopefully it'll have some decent legs until PS5 release even when Switch is starting to get more multiplatform games.
sixteen-bit
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Congratulations Sony!
4.92 million ahead of Xbox One
Also ~1 million ahead of Gamecube.
Congrats on the sales. Nice to see console gaming isn't dead in the land of the rising sun.
Gotdatmoney
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Reached right around the same time as PS3. Decent all things considered. System has had pretty good performance this year.
Hippopuncher12
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For a country that couldn't give a shit about traditional consoles anymore? I would say it's pretty good.
Shin
Banned
Is the math correct though, that's around 40 months (average 20k-ish?), it seems low to me.
4.92 million ahead of Xbox One
took only 10 posts for this console Warrior bullshit. Not bad.
It's not really good. Decent at best. It's selling on par with PS3 despite having the best possible support.
huh? i don't get this graph,please explain it.
I think it's a fun jab at the Xbox One situation in Japan. It's a recurring thing in the MC threads.
DangerMouse
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Nice. Looks like it's doing decent. Especially since home consoles have it so hard there compared to portables. Looks like they've gotten some nice payoff from finally getting that noticeable influx of Japanese titles in this last year or so with that nice bump in the graph getting back to PS3 levels.
The numbers in the bottom are weeks, so it compares hardware sales from week 1 of the respective console release.
It is far from amazing, I don't even consider it good. But it's better than expected based on its poor launch. Software sales are also decent so while it isn't the savior that people expected it did well enough to make 3rd paties happy.
In a market where console gaming seems to be being drastically replaced by handheld/mobile gaming, especially comparing 2006, its good to keep on the same trend line. Question is, what does the future hold? Can it be clawed back?
Shin
Banned
Yeah my point exactly, which doesn't bode well for PS5 and Sony was right to launch PS4 in Japan about 6 months later.
I'm all for more sales and/or their "achievements", just not excited as others are for this milestone.
Hardware sales does seem to have ramped up, from 18k to 25k to now 30k weekly, DQXI might have that effect though PS4 Pro also went up in units sold.
We'll see if it keeps the momentum up, one thing is for sure they got a lot of games catered for just that market.
Gotdatmoney
Member
Decent is where I would peg it too. Still, system seems to have a good chunk of life left and they have wiggle room on the price still. It's solid though obviously last gen, current gen and Switch make it clear portables are the go to in Japan.
that's only first year, not LTD
* will have. DQXI and MHW are not even released yet. Let's wait one year and then compare numbers again
Devilgunman
Member
What more important is the +160k YTD compared to last year. It's an amazing growth.
These are the first 52 weeks for several systems. The horizontal axis shows the weeks, the vertical axis shows the number of units sold for different systems. It includes PS4, Switch, 3DS, PS Vita and Wii U (each has a different colour, shown at the side of the graph).
(Switch LTD numbers are 1.2 million if that was what you wanted to know)
Moor-Angol
Banned
This just shows how much small has become the japanese market for home systems
lol huh? What am I missing here?I need to know
Thanks for this I was wondering how well it was doing in comparison to PS3.
I agree it's good performance due to Japan's growing inclination to handhelds or mobile stuff.
Here's to more Japanese software!
Edit: oops didn't read the graph right, tracking PS3 sales too haha
Shin
Banned
By the time PS5 launches they might have sold 8m in total, also Japan's population has been shrinking since 2010 I've noticed.
thanks,i thought it's for the LTD at first,this is why i was confused.
This looks sped up to me. Ruined.
DriftingSpirit
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Rather decent all things considered.
Salty Rice
Member
The King wont stop
In Japan, right?
In a place where home consoles are like a dying breed right?
But to some....this isnt amazing...
Sometimes I do wonder whats the criteria for something to be considered good for some folks.
While Japanese sales aren't good at least it's on par with the PS3. Had sales shown the market dwindle even further then there would be major concern. It'll be interesting to see if PS4 can outsell the PS3 by end of the generation considering it has a better lineup in japan.
Hopefully someone finds a way to spark sales in Japan again. There's a lot of untapped market there.
Omnistalgic
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Good numbers...I'm not sure console gaming will ever be like PS2 days in Japan. If Sony wants to win the software battle, they likely need a portable console.
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