Mahe

Also, PSP was a very popular handheld in Japan. As well as the PS4 is doing, it won't reach PSP numbers in Japan, and with a smaller install base come smaller sales compared to PSP games.

Worldwide, PS4 will pass PSP this year and will go far beyond in the years to come.

"PS4 is still slugging it out in second place. All platforms saw sales drop, with Sony's current-gen system dipping to around 33,000 units. The PS4 Pro, meanwhile managed to stay above the 10,000 mark."

What a weird way of counting PS4 sales. It sold a combined 43,808 systems for a very comfortable first place.

I reckon simply nobody expected GTAV to be just this huge of a hit. Of course GTA has always been big, but this is just gargantuan. GTAV is on another level.

I often download betas but then don't have the time to play them at the designated time.

They need a huge re-reveal for the game this year. Lots of new actual gameplay and not just from Midgar.

Great list. PS4 is going to have one of its best years and that's saying a lot.

@Dange Monster Hunter World anticipation most likely.

Huge boost for PS4. Japan gearing up for Monster Hunter World after the latest news and for the upcoming final beta test?

Poor Mitsurugi.

It looked like Just Dance 2018 was heading down again after the holiday bump but now it got a smaller bump back to 28. Will it keep hanging on in the charts like JD2017 and the others did?

Well now. E3?

Nice list, but 10 games isn't enough, even if it's "best of". This could be an article series even. Board and social games, music games, fighting, racing, platforming, action, there are loads of multiplayer games across different genres on PS4.

This year has a good chance of becoming PS4's best year yet. Lots of hugely anticipated titles on the way.

Monster Hunter World will bump PS4 sales in Japan, but by how much? On Wii, Monster Hunter Tri bumped Wii sales to a total of over 200,000 in the four weeks following its release. Will we see similar sales for PS4 hardware in Japan outside of a holiday season?

@Grawlog Nintendolife has gone to the dogs in how biased they are these days, and the fanboys aren't any better. I still visit the site sometimes to check on 2DS news, and may deliver a reminder that their Nintendo fan glasses aren't showing everything. Sometimes they go as far as leaving big news completely unreported because the news doesn't fit their bias.

@Grawlog "I own consoles from every manufacturer and don't play the one that has the shiniest branding; I play what's fun."

You know what, that's me too! Guess our conception of what's fun and what's all branding and nothing to back it up is different.

@Grawlog But when you make excuses for the NS, you are a Nintendo apologist. That has always been my problem with NS fans.

Enjoy what you like, but don't try to make it something it isn't.

@Grawlog Oh yeah, that price point thing really hurt Wii U too, and the climate was all wrong for Wii U. We should all just "please understand" how the Wii U and NS turned out.

PS4 game sales are probably spread out over a lot of different releases, judging from those over 65 thousand hardware sales.

For those keeping track, the NS is around 1 million behind the 3DS in Japan compared to the same point in the 3DS life cycle.

@jgrangervikings1 Not really, not since the Wii/DS days. Remember when Knack outsold Mario 3D World?

@BAMozzy VGC****** doesn't deal with facts. They offer only fiction. Why do you think their numbers differ from all the official sources?

@BAMozzy VGC****** is complete rubbish. You can't trust them in matters like this, and you shouldn't even link them.

Not surprising, but well deserved. Now bring on more Crash.

@JLPick I went there to check, and I still couldn't find any news of the NPD results there. Must have been a bitter pill for them to swallow.

Some of the diehard Nintendo fanboys there probably wouldn't like it if the staff made something as outrageous as reporting on sales figures that weren't what the NS fans were expecting.

@JLPick Nintendolife is so biased it's not even funny. Have they even now reported of those NPD results or not?

@outsider83 NS is tracking below 3DS launch-aligned in Japan, and they don't have a dedicated home console anymore. How is this a good thing?

Colour me brown, grey and surprised. But mostly brown and grey.

@PS_Nation Over 60 000 for a home console in Japan on a week when there were no major releases? That's absolutely great.

PS4 has already sold close to 6 million systems in Japan, at a faster rate than PS3 did. That 6 million will happen in January, and 7 million will also happen next year. PS Vita might not ever reach even 6 million in Japan, and that's in a country that absolutely loves its handhelds.

It's a monster!

And the game lineup is monstrously good!

@KingdomHeartsFan

Here's a chart from exactly 7 years ago:

TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE, WEEK ENDING 18 December 2010

LW TW Title Developer Label Publisher
1 1 CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS TREYARCH ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
2 2 FIFA 11 EA CANADA EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
7 3 NEED FOR SPEED: HOT PURSUIT CRITERION GAMES EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
6 4 JUST DANCE 2 UBISOFT (FRANCE) UBISOFT UBISOFT
4 5 ASSASSIN'S CREED: BROTHERHOOD UBISOFT (MONTREAL) UBISOFT UBISOFT
5 6 GRAN TURISMO 5 POLYPHONY DIGITAL SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.
8 7 DONKEY KONG COUNTRY RETURNS RETRO STUDIOS NINTENDO NINTENDO
13 8 MEDAL OF HONOR DANGER CLOSE/DICE EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
10 9 WII FIT PLUS NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO
9 10 PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE LOST FUTURE LEVEL 5 NINTENDO NINTENDO
14 11 MARIO KART WII NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO
11 12 MICHAEL JACKSON: THE EXPERIENCE UBISOFT (FRANCE) UBISOFT UBISOFT
15 13 THE SIMS 3 EXIENT EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
18 14 FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS OBSIDIAN ENTERTAINMENT BETHESDA SOFTWORKS BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
17 15 KINECT SPORTS RARE MICROSOFT MICROSOFT
12 16 WII PARTY ND CUBE NINTENDO NINTENDO
16 17 RED DEAD REDEMPTION: UNDEAD NIGHTMARE ROCKSTAR SAN DIEGO ROCKSTAR TAKE 2
24 18 JUST DANCE UBISOFT (FRANCE) UBISOFT UBISOFT
23 19 HARRY POTTER: THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 EA BRIGHT LIGHT EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
22 20 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS.

Sure, CoD is still at the top, but as whole it's quite different, back when Nintendo had successful systems.

Edit: sorry for the poor formatting.

@KingSandyRavage It's the same thing that was previously discussed in this thread. Even Wii U got some big hits, but having those one off hits didn't help it in the long run. When you've got a single tentpole release like Mario or Zelda, the people who own the system will get that because they really don't have much choice.

Me, I'll rather take my pick from the countless games available on PS4 than settle for Mario and Zelda. Sony's success with PS4 is because of great games and great hardware. It's amusing to see people like you trying to downplay that while trying to drum up the same old Nintendo yawn fests.

@KingSandyRavage Look at those top lists. PS4 is selling a lot of games. Not a game, games. It's not just selling one single game, it's putting big numbers for a great diversity of games.

@KingdomHeartsFan PS4 has lots of the casual audience by now. A big part of the Wii userbase has moved onto PS4 as reported several times now.

NS install base is still mostly Nintendo fans and early adopters. The mass market audience buys a lot of their systems in November, and the low sales for NS this month show that they're currently not very interested in the system.

Well deserved. Sony made great choices with the PS4 this gen and it's still paying off.

Xtra stable for Xmas! Now we just need a manger!

PS4 closing in on 6 million fast.

@Kidfried Actually, PS4 has sold more in Japan than PS3 did in the same timeframe.

Still, good sales for remake like you said.

@get2sammyb No, the models are great. Also remake of SC1, so they're probably meant to reference those designs instead of making completely new designs.

@carlos82 Nintendo has made some great controllers: Wiimote, SNES Pad, Wii Classic Controller Pro.

But they've also made some really bad ones: GameCube, Wii U Gamepad, NS controllers.

Unfortunately now it's the era of "bad controller Nintendo" again.

Finally! The SC series has been a bit hit and miss lately, but hopefully this one returns the series to PS2 and SC2 level quality.

@carlos82 "you can't convince me that it's not the best pad since the GameCube"

GameCube pad was terrible. It's not hard being better than that, but being better than that sorry excuse of a controller still doesn't make it good.

@carlos82 Yeah Hori usually makes great pads. But the NS Pro... yeuch.

It has been a fantastic year for PS4, and it's showing no sings of stopping. Well deserved, the PS4 is simply leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.

Have never liked the game awards really. Will be skipping this in favor of PSX.

@carlos82 That Dpad is Xbox 360 level of bad. Unacceptable.

@carlos82 How are you going to play Mega Man without a real D-pad?

@Nickolaidas That's very easy. Just get Mega Man Legacy Collection and MMLC2.

Play at least MM2, 3, 4, 7, 9 and 10.

I literally lol'd. What a tool this "analyst" is!

Kill loot boxes. Kill them dead.

"Journey to a Faraway Hometown Online"

That "Online" moniker for DQ10 is weird when it's right at the end of the subtitle.

Just Dance 2018, now that I've played a fair share of it I can say that the tracklist is great and the features are great. It may just be the altogether best Just Dance game of them all.