Media Create sales (july14-july20) yokai watch 2 300k

1. [3DS] Yokai Watch 2: Ganso / Honke (Level-5, 07/10/14) – 331,946 (1,648,653)
2. [PSV] Oreshika: Tainted Bloodblines (SCEJ, 07/17/14) – 93,775 (New)
3. [PS3] Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea (Gust, 07/17/14) – 43,744 (New)
4. [3DS] Gundam Try Age SP (Bandai Namco, 07/17/14) – 21,524 (New)
5. [Wii U] Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo, 05/29/14) – 14,992 (542,358)
6. [3DS] Yokai Watch (Level-5, 07/11/13) – 12,790 (1,208,077)
7. [PSV] Freedom Wars (SCEJ, 06/26/14) – 9,761 (262,427)
8. [3DS] Taiko Drum Master: Don and Katsu’s Space-Time Great Adventure (Bandai Namco, 06/26/14) – 9,258 (101,478)
9. [3DS] Pokemon Art Academy (Nintendo, 06/19/14) – 5,714 (69,636)
10. [PS3] Watch Dogs (Ubisoft, 06/26/14) – 5,628 (59,585)
11. [PS3] Grand Theft Auto V Low Price Version (06/26/14) – 5,090 (23,659)
12. [3DS] Pokemon X / Y (Pokemon, 10/12/13) – 4,925 (4,106,912)
13. [PS4] Murdered: Soul Suspect (Square Enix, 07/17/14) – 4,467 (New)
14. [PS4] FIFA 14 (EA, 02/22/14) – 4,094 (67,541)
15. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 (Capcom, 09/14/13) – 3,905 (3,311,605)
16. [PS4] Watch Dogs (Ubisoft, 06/26/14) – 3,455 (85,832)
17. [3DS] Happe-chan Minna de Odekake! Wakuwaku Hoppe Land!! (Nihon Colombia, 07/17/14) – 3,433 (New)
18. [3DS] Pro Evolution Soccer 2014: Aoki Samurai no Chousen (Konami, 05/22/14) – 2,996 (70,108)
19. [PSV] Persona 4 Golden (Atlus, 06/14/12) – 2,929 (304,785)
20. [Wii U] Wii Sports Club (Nintendo, 07/17/14) – 2,898 (New)

Hardware Sales (followed by last week’s sales)

1. 3DS LL – 31,192 (55,531)
2. PlayStation Vita – 27,352 (38,907)
3. Wii U – 8,209 (8,658)
4. PlayStation 3 – 7,389 (7,763)
5. PlayStation 4 – 6,456 (7,150)
6. 3DS – 6,185 (6,425)
7. PlayStation Vita TV – 2,249 (1,803)
8. PSP – 556 (779)
9. Xbox 360 – 129 (140)

http://gematsu.com/2014/07/media-create-sales-71414-72014

join the nintendo circle jerk...

that was......cool

you banned yet? LOL

its only a matter of time...

PS3 beats Wii60 once again.

PS4 under 7k. Question, is it doing so badly primarily because its aimed at western audiences or because the Japanese no longer care about consoles?

ps3 beats ps460 too haha

sure...say something pro nintendo.

so was sony...lol

im surprsied its selling on other countries...a joke of a system. but i guess people see it as the best of whats available...japan arent as gullible though.

uncharted and the last of us?....sony are a movie company as well.

case closed.

Oh please, the XB1 will die a death there, worse than the 360.

yes it will....but the reason for that is not because of console death in japan.. its other reasons.

thats a decent compliment scott...

Vita still putting up respectable numbers, nice

they are to me...just watch the first 10min of the game....then the last 10min...and thats it... you can discuss the game with anyone..lol

I wonder if that is how he approaches actual movies or books as well. Just read the first 10 pages, finish off with the last 10 pages, good to go.

lol..in school i did that a couple times.

movies are intended to be watched. books are inteneded to be read. games are meant to be played.

i dont feel mixing two of those makes it one of the best games ever,

Handheld domination continuation!

The system launched with Yakuza.

I think they just simply don't care about consoles, or rather they prefer to spend $200 on a system with tons of games over a $400 system with a game.

At least they seem smart about their gaming purchases............in this instance.

Games are entertainment, simply to be enjoyed. There is nothing interactive about a book or a movie being that it is a very passive activity. Why should gamers continue to restrict games through such arbitrary and shallow labels?
I enjoyed the reading in Virtue's Last Reward. I enjoyed the cutscenes in The Last of Us. I also enjoyed the gameplay in both and thought neither sacrificed one for the other. Games are more than just pressing buttons and concurring animations, at least I think so.

Wow, three dead systems in the top 4.

A little of each. The games that will excite Japanese gamers and drive sales aren't here (and many lack firm release dates), and there is a very real and significant shift in hardware preference in the market.

The thing most people don't mention is the huge effect Japan's consumption tax increase has had on all discretionary spending. And this was just the first rate increase of several planned.

Because it dosent have any Japanese games on it yet?

all it has is AkipaStrip 2 and thats not even an RPG

Damn,even the WiiU is beating the PS4 lol.

Random Persona 4 Golden on that Top 20.

That's actually awesome.

So do you have problems with text-heavy games?

Its sad that Japanese gamers are so insular tbh.

The Vita is doing well and PS3>Wii360 once again. Only a matter of time before PS4 reclaims best selling console and thus SDC.

I don't really see why it's sad. You like what you like and your culture influences that to a degree. Frozen just last week became the best selling Bluray in Japan ever. It's not a matter of hating Western things, it's a matter of western games not appealing to them. Don't see the big deal with that. Taste is taste.

Taste is taste because you don't experience new things. Its like people saying I only like pepperoni pizza and macdonalds and have never tried to broaden their palate.

No it's not. Taste is taste because you know what you prefer and what you like. I don't like shooters generally speaking. I'm not going to be interested in new shooters because I have gauged I don't enjoy playing them. What you are suggesting in game form is that Japanese players should all run out, buy western games droves, play them and then say, naw not my thing. I'm sorry but it doesn't work that way in the exact same way you don't see JRPGs not named final fantasy doing huge numbers in the west or why visual novels aren't big or why something like Zack and Wiki bombed. A) because marketing plays a roll, and B) because you can't try everything and won't want to try everything.

My point is that if you only eat mcdonalds and pizza you'll never know you like something else. Japanese games really don't explore western titles. The same cannot be said for the western consumer. Cultural tastes play a part, but in the west gamers will play alot of wildly different games from east and west. Just because certain titles from the east don't sell well in the west is a complete non-argument, lots of western games crash in the west too and some western genres don't sell as well as others.

I'm not suggesting that people who've played shooters and don't like shooters should run out and buy them. However, if you've never played a shooter maybe you should give it a go before deciding whether its for you or not? (and not just talking about shooters .... )

@LegatoSkyheart: yeah, the anime probably helped with the random sales boost

It's because the console sucks and has no games worth playing.

Tricky question. I think we'd better wait for a new FF, MGS or some other big japanese title to release only on next gen consoles to know.

You do have to take into consideration though that media create is weekly, not monthly like NPD, Japan has about 40% of US' population and about 27.5% of US' GDP(PPP). But yes, even taking that into consideration, it's still doing poorly.

Instead of trading the same point back and forth let's try this. Last gen, what new IP from Japan sold over a million copies in western territories? No point in using games that were popular in the west when Japan dominated console gaming and that was where the highest quality games came. So in the last 8 or so years, what Japanese games sold big numbers in the West?

So console gaming is dead and handhelds are alive and well but also not doing super great.