KillerMan91
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Both Switch and PS4 are doing pretty similarly to their predecessors. This whole thread is pretty much non news. Well i guess there is plenty of people that don't visit weekly Media Create threads.
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Kotaku: Switch keeps dominating PS4 sales in Japan (first 26 weeks sales data)
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Both Switch and PS4 are doing pretty similarly to their predecessors. This whole thread is pretty much non news. Well i guess there is plenty of people that don't visit weekly Media Create threads.
the Wii U was still ahead many months later.
Naked Snake
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Define "at launch"... We're talking 26 weeks here.
Ummmm, you know the article is comparing sales launch aligned right?
Dark Cloud
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I know, but this is the first 26 weeks, which is more than just a few months. The Wii U was dead in the water by then.
Did you read the OP? Lol
No. But in the world where you think Wonder Woman is better than Terminator 2 sure.
All you had to do was look at a picture in the OP lol
ThisIsMyDogKyle
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It's comparing when the first 26 weeks of Switch to the first 26 weeks of PS4, when it was new, not current numbers. Although it is a handheld compared to a console in Japan which, yeah, obviously the handheld is going to win.
JohnTinker
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Dat Splatoon bump in week 20
lol
i just died of salt poisoning.
Gotdatmoney
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PS4 had a terrible start middle and end if we are being serious lol.
Switch will outsell PS4's ltd in like 18 months. It's competition is PSP/3DS/PS2 sales. PS4 is irrelevant.
lol
entremet
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This is hilarious. Just pointing and laughing at this post.
lmao
the ps4 did worse, so is not fair
Huge Succeeded
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And at 26 weeks in, Wii U was at just shy of a million units sold in Japan.
935,586 units sold, to be precise.
Compared to Switch's 1.5 mil.
DriftingSpirit
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Should ensure support down the road. PS4/Switch games are the future.
I mean, it's not shocking anymore, but let's not pretend people had no idea if a hybrid would work before it came out. Japan was always going to be an easier sell though, and hybrid or not Splatoon is much more popular there than it is worldwide. Splatoon 2 will keep Switch sales as high as they can be over there for quite some time.
Dark Cloud
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It only counts if the PS4 had a head start.
LizardKing
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Not only that successful consoles don't peak in their first year, so yes older consoles do outsell newer ones lol.
Switch hasn't even had it's first holiday yet either. It will be very interesting to see sells more hardware WW this and next year between Switch and PS4. It will be close. Nintendo may dethrone the market leader here.
Living Proof
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GAF member gets upset at a thread title and replies without reading the context.
What a shock.
the Wii U was ahead of the PS4 after a year and that was after we knew the Wii U was going nowhere.
comparing with the PS4 in japan is gonna be pointless for the entire gen. it's like comparing vs the Dreamcast.
the real news is if the Switch starts outselling the PS4 in america or europe.
joecanada
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I can't help but wonder what the internal conversations were about combined handheld and home console audiences ... I wonder if some execs at Nintendo were opposed to combining two revenue streams into one.
But 3ds is still selling so for now it's been good.
Huge Succeeded
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As much as I'd love that, it's not happening. I think Nintendo is the only major game company in the position to put out a hybrid.
Apple sure as hell could do it if they felt like it though
Naked Snake
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I didn't mean the PS5 being a hybrid, but rather a Vita successor if you will, and perhaps it can be based on the same architecture so the software can be cross compatible, like PS4/PS4-Pro.
I just think the hybrid concept (and the details of its marketing and execution) are too good for someone else not to attempt.
I don't know what that means.
wumster3000
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This is how I read it. I'm not joking either.
Aww I didn't post in that thread. I can't completely remember but I don't think I was high on the Switch at all. Would have been fun to see how I would have slandered the hell out of it back then.
I had to have posted somewhere... we need a crow thread to dig those posts up.
lol @ attempting to basically write off sales for an entire region for console gaming.
Yeah GL with that.
Sad Affleck
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Impressive.
Huge Succeeded
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PS5 would have to be pretty damn weak to enable that.
I'd love it though
I really think Apple is the only company besides Nintendo who could really make a success out of a hybrid platform.
im still appaled by Aostia response, lol
moltonasty
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Nintendo be like
That's a excellent point and something getting lost in this heavily revisionist thread.
For all the "of course its selling great its a handheld!" talk, Switch costs a lot more than any previous Nintendo handheld. 3DS needed a price drop from $250 to catch fire in Japan. Switch is selling out at a higher price and won't need a price cut for a long time.
Even if it wouldn't be about aligned launches, 3DS is also ahead.
So wrong no matter what lol
"Nintendo had the nerve to develop games appealing to the 2nd largest gaming region in the world. Unfair. Congrats I guess"
LordBaztion
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I think Sony will need another handheld if they want to be in a position to influence mid and small developers in Japan.
Council Pop
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So... what are you implying? That people are twice as likely to buy it cos it's two consoles in one? Don't think that's how it works tbh.
This can't be stated enough. I don't know what "lol but Switch is just a handheld!!" comments are trying to say- if I'm honest they just sound like console war shit about the Switch being 'underpowered' etc.
It's not some sort of "gotcha!"- Nintendo aren't manipulating figures to make it look like they're succeeding in the home console market when actually it's just a budget handheld. Regardless of how powerful it is, or how people play it, the Switch sits firmly within the established home console market.
*In Japan only
But they never left as far as portable market goes? especially in Japan. I feel I'm missing something here lol.
staticneuron
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Both Switch and PS4 are doing pretty similarly to their predecessors. This whole thread is pretty much non news. Well i guess there is plenty of people that don't visit weekly Media Create threads.
Surely the charts and the fact that nintendo has demonstrably dominated handheld market speaks volumes people wouldn't...
.... nevermind.
LordOcidax
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