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KH91
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Congrats Sony. Would be more if Japan sells weren't around the 5-10k area for the majority of the year.
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acetatsujin
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 12:22 am |
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| KH91 wrote: | | Congrats Sony. Would be more if Japan sells weren't around the 5-10k area for the majority of the year. |
It's always been like that in Japan. They're not 400 million people like in the US and their taste in fashion, games and outgoing is drastically different than in the US.
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endallchaos
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 12:36 am |
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| acetatsujin wrote: | | KH91 wrote: | | Congrats Sony. Would be more if Japan sells weren't around the 5-10k area for the majority of the year. |
It's always been like that in Japan. They're not 400 million people like in the US and their taste in fashion, games and outgoing is drastically different than in the US.
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It will probably start selling faster, when it releases in China. 
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mdo7
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 12:40 am |
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| acetatsujin wrote: | | KH91 wrote: | | Congrats Sony. Would be more if Japan sells weren't around the 5-10k area for the majority of the year. |
It's always been like that in Japan. They're not 400 million people like in the US and their taste in fashion, games and outgoing is drastically different than in the US.
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Not only that I believe the tax hike in Japan may have effected video game sales and that may have included the PS4.
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Hameyadea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 12:53 am |
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Sony has done some things right when it came to handling the PS4, mainly the pre-release media and price point
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Stuart Smith
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:27 am |
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| KH91 wrote: | | Congrats Sony. Would be more if Japan sells weren't around the 5-10k area for the majority of the year. |
There's no games that appeal to Japan or fans of Japanese games for it. It's library is mainly triple A shooters. Sales might pick up once the system has more variety there, but that won't be for awhile so long as it's just shooters on the system.
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EnigmaticSky
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 6:23 am |
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| Stuart Smith wrote: | | KH91 wrote: | | Congrats Sony. Would be more if Japan sells weren't around the 5-10k area for the majority of the year. |
There's no games that appeal to Japan or fans of Japanese games for it. It's library is mainly triple A shooters. Sales might pick up once the system has more variety there, but that won't be for awhile so long as it's just shooters on the system.
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Sounds about right. I mean the only things that really interest me that are exclusives (or at least to it and the Xbox One) are Final Fantasy XV, Persona 5 and Disgaea 5. Once it gets some unique things I will pick it up, but until then I'm fine catching up with PS3 games I never played since I only got mine like 3 years ago in the first place.
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Greed1914
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 10:10 am |
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| Hameyadea wrote: | | Sony has done some things right when it came to handling the PS4, mainly the pre-release media and price point |
I attribute a lot of the success to that. I've never seen a company go after another at E3 quite like that, and it worked. Actually, of my little group of friends, I was the only avid Sony user while the rest used Xbox, and now we all have a PS4 because of the bad taste Microsoft left. Even though changes in policy were made, I think a lot of the damage was already done at that point.
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mdo7
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 10:24 am |
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| Stuart Smith wrote: | | KH91 wrote: | | Congrats Sony. Would be more if Japan sells weren't around the 5-10k area for the majority of the year. |
There's no games that appeal to Japan or fans of Japanese games for it. It's library is mainly triple A shooters. Sales might pick up once the system has more variety there, but that won't be for awhile so long as it's just shooters on the system.
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Well that and the tax hike the Japanese govt implemented is what making the PS4 sales in Japan to be not good.
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