Japanese Sales Charts: New Nintendo Titles Dominate as PS4 Numbers Drag

Oh Nintendo has games? Good, my switch probably has about 10kg of dust honestly

Octopath will jump ship eventually. Looking at those numbers, 110k is completely sold out, no more until August, so Square didn't have much faith.

@LaNooch1978 I see 3 kinds of people online.

Those, like me, who don't really care but it looks cool.

Those who love it.

And those, many of whom are diehard Nintendo YouTubers, who just crap all over it's existence because its popular, akin to Fortnite.

Which is exactly why third parties walked in the opposite direction.

@LaNooch1978 I do see it on social media though, Nintendo fans trashing ot because its popular and its like...not helpful....

Octopath isn't really my kind of game from what I can tell, but it looks cool. I'd say it deserves to be there for the time being.

@LaNooch1978 I mean, if people like this unique JRPG then let them, you know? I don't mind the weapon degradation in BOTW, but it's a personal thing. I know why they did it but it doesn't mean people have to like it.

Fans of any system get on my tits anyway, isolating yourself to one console or platform or ecosystem is asinine and quite frankly just limiting what you play out of arbitrary tribalism.

Xbox One's streak continues

@legalstep 79 is a pretty big number isn't it? Soon Microsoft will hit 100. Most popular system in Japan.

@AFCC vive la france joel.hahaha.word up son

Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Microsoft)
I'm going back to bed, Smh....

It'd be interesting to see what Octopath's sales would be if the game hadn't sold out as soon as it released. Anyway, it seems to be doing well everywhere.

@AFCC Your house sounds filthy. You should probably clean more often.

@AFCC why did you buy a Switch then..:

Vita numbers up. Still holding up decently.
Are there some kind of of promotion going on?
Because no new games were released.

A market where a console sells 32 units is not a market I can trust or take seriously. Moving on!

@playstation1995 vive la france, Kratos!

@Derpie1 wanted to try Zelda and my gf likes Mario! Also I was expecting the Pokemon games to come sooner...but yeah I only have 3 games for switch lol

@LaNooch1978 I like the look of it but I was expecting other kinds of games I guess x)

@AFCC Get Hollow Knight...

@AFCC if you have the slightest interest in 3D brawlers/hack & slashers (GoW, DMC), I suggest Bayonetta 2, or Hyrule/Fire Emblem Warriors. The latter even have co-op.

Octopath is amazing but in reality is the only reason I'll be using my Switch in the coming months before the PS4 big hitters come out

Octopath will come to PS4 i hope. 😁

@Knuckles-Fajita @Flaming_Kaiser I wouldn't count on Octopath jumping ship to PS4. Nintendo is the publisher. They've almost certainly got some sort of exclusivity deal in place.

@AFCC Hahaha people will be angry with this comment. One like for you. ^^

@NoxAeturnus Only in the EU and America. Square published in Japan

So I guess it was all over for everyone else when the PS4 sold 100K of Zodiac Age in the first week in Japan. People seem to forget Nintendo was loosing money 5 years into the Wii. PS4 is still printing cash

My switch was collecting dust for most of 2018. Good thing it finally got a game or 2. Nothing wrong with another console having a few Hits.

It will be collecting dust again once September/October Hit

@NoxAeturnus Guess i will never play it then. 😜

@Agramonte And you forget how badly Sony was losing cash until just a few years ago.

Although, that's completely irrelevant to the topic of this article.

@EVIL-C SONY group that sells everything from Mobile phones to TVs was lossing money. Gaming has been a solid earner for the past 8 years except for the random seasonal quarter.

It helps frame just how irrelevant the topic of this article is in the bigger picture. So actually relevant.

@EVIL-C Im still gratefull they gave the bluray. 😁

I’m seeing a lot of comments around the Internet about people having a Switch that’s collecting a lot of dust this year. I’ve always wondered, where do people find the time to play all of these games. Especially since most of them probably have a PS4 along with their Switch.

@Agramonte Only 8 years? Nintendo went from '82 to 2012 before taking a loss. That's 30 years. https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/26/nintendo-posts-first-loss-30-years

But again, Wii lost some money at the tail end of its life when the fad was over? From a company in business since 1889, and has rebranded themselves time and again? Big whoop. They turned the 3DS around, they weathered the Wii U storm, and the Switch is currently on fire. They've recovered. Just like Sony did with PS3, and the company as a whole has begun to do. I'm happy for both cases.

@Flaming_Kaiser

It was Bluray that made me pick PS3 over 360. I literally had to wait 2 extra weeks for my next pay to buy an HDMI cable, because I used my entire part-time pay at the time to buy the PS3, lol.

@outsider83 LOL agreed, not to mention the cash. It's so silly.

The Vita lives !

@legalstep Fantastic run. Keeps splashing amazing numbers week after week.

@Flaming_Kaiser Is this some port begging I see?

@EVIL-C

And you just backed my statement. Fact: Wii was no longer profitable for Nintendo after 5 years. And Fact: PS4 is still Printing Money for SONY going into its 5th year with barely 6 million units in japan.

So looking at SONY Financials - who is on top in the Japan chart is irrelevant. That Nintendo made Money 25 years ago is also irrelevant to the point I made.

Read my post again.

@Agramonte I didn't make the connection between Zodiac Age and the original Wii, because I've never heard of ZA, and was I not part of any discussion with someone implying PS4 was a flop because some game only sold 100K, if my understanding is correct? I was lost by that very first statement.
I still don't see any relevancy between last week's PS4 sales; last week being the topic here, and Wii sales from 5 years ago. Super Famicom sales were good in Japan 25 years ago, btw. Atari 2600 was booming in the US 40 years ago.

Japanese markets are always going to be dominated by hand-held titles and hardware. Heck, even the 'dead in the west' Vita is shifting about as many units as the 2DS and PS4 Pro! Sony really let us down with what should have been the PSP 2...

@EVIL-C I love Bayonetta (1) so that's a really nice suggestion!

@PS_Nation This is a playstation site, we gotta have authority here x)

@Dodoo Good sugestion! Kudos!

@AFCC Same, and Bay 2 blows the original away IMO. You're welcome.

@Ralizah my obsessive with cleaning girlfriend doesn't let my house be slightly filthy actually it's like the army!
Anyway...you know what I meant!