In Japan PS4 is nowhere near doing as well as in the rest of the world and it's not like there is much announced for that system to sustain sales in the coming months/years. When PS5 will launch in 2020 at the earliest and if nothing drastic is done by Sony they probably will barely have a presence there. Seriously as things look right now 2019 and 2020 can only appear really ugly for them in that region, a situation that we have never ever seen before.
They don't need to put exclusives on it if you can download all PS4 games. But I guess maybe that leads to some storage problems...
There will surely be another Mario Maker at some point as well.
That's not why Vita failed, Cmon. It's been said numerous times what the main reasons where, and the SD card thing was one of them. They can still come out with one that doesn't have Vita's failures and still compete somehow with good games. Don't tell me Sony can't come up with games for it, plus third party.
Sure, not saying we should expect more than 10k bump or anything. I was thinking a smallish but of up to 10k best-case scenario.
Never mind patterns, look at what Game Freak's actually able to develop. A 2020 Diamond and Pearl remake would be the fifth year in a row that Game Freak's put out a game, and the third in a row they've put out an HD game. It's simply not feasible.
I dont know why people feel to bring up World Sales in MC thread whenever someone mentions how PS4 is not the hottest item there.
Pokémon X And Y Pre-Orders Reach 260,000 Units In Just Two Days
Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire saw 239,000 pre-orders within two days.
Moreover, japanese gamers line up up for pre-orders: https://nintendoeverything.com/japa...-pokemon-omega-rubyalpha-sapphire-pre-orders/
Pokémon X And Y Pre-Orders Reach 260,000 Units In Just Two Days
Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire saw 239,000 pre-orders within two days.
Moreover, japanese gamers line up up for pre-orders: https://nintendoeverything.com/japa...-pokemon-omega-rubyalpha-sapphire-pre-orders/
Probably because Japan is became less relevant for the Sony business perspective and they are more concentrate where they are doing well? Why they should care much more? Maybe they will try some gymnic hardware experiment close to the switch audience, but I don't think Sony will sacrifice more resources just for the sake of the Japan, if things will not improve. They even released the ps4 later if it's not a signal by them about their real consideration of the Japanese market what else should be?
they care sooo little they pushed Asia exclusivity for Mon Hun World.
What I said doesn't means they will not try to do the best they can. But surely japan is less relevant for them and they give the priority to the rest of the world.
The question that remains is how does that compare to other franchises? If everything only has 5-8% share in the preorders of the first two days, then that means Pokémon is not different from other franchises in that respect.
most games/ anime soundtrack on average list in the top 5-10, Zelda OST listed at 4th, and you will need a monster like Monogatari series to get 1st place, getting into the Top 10 is good enough
Is this the regular Pokemon game price in Japan or is this higher?
That's the form of gameplay that most benefits from the Switch, given the twin Joycon setup. I'd be very unsurprised if Nintendo leant on local co-op and multiplayer for most games as long as the Switch is a thing.
Between local co-op and a focus on the phenomenon that was, and still is, pokémon Go, along with this being the first pokémon game on the Switch, I think they'll do better than SunMoon. My guess at this stage is 4.5M.
GB Pokémon Red / Green / Blue 140.074 7.936.360 Nintendo 27/02/1996
GB Pokémon Gold / Silver 1.425.768 6.088.144 Nintendo 21/11/1999
NDS Pokémon Diamond / Pearl 1.586.360 5.826.538 Pokémon Co. 28/09/2006
NDS Pokémon Black / White 2.637.285 5.490.455 Pokémon Co. 18/09/2010
3DS Pokémon X / Y 2.096.050 4.557.957 Pokémon Co. 12/10/2013
3DS Pokémon Sun / Moon 1.905.107 3.918.808 Pokémon Co. 18/11/2016