PS4 Slim Helps PS4 Sell 96,433 Units in Japan in a Week; Persona 5 Debuts with 337,767 Units Sold

In the past few weeks the PS4 has been selling really low weekly amounts in Japan due to a shortage caused by Sony preparing to launch the new slim model, but last week (on September 15th) the CUH-2000 console finally hit the local shelves.

[UCForce]

That's pretty good. By the way, I think people need to understand that PS4 Slim is for people want to buy a cheap price. Maybe I have to buy PS4 Slim for my older brother because he's married and he's huge fan of PES.

Edit : By the way, who said Japanese game doesn't matter, huh ? Name one person who said that Japanese game doesn't matter. I'm not joking, I want that person responds to my comments so I can give them a reason. Like seriously, it just make me upset that people look Japanese games like it wasn't there in the first place. And this is not personal attack or something like that, I want people need to understand that Japanese game is still video game. Defination of video game is can be everything . David Cage games is also a game no matter how you think. If You want to create a cinematic game for story telling and character development then go ahead. Or if you want to create game to have fun, then go ahead.

[trooper_]

I'm getting a slim eventually. This is a good option for me.

[Overload]

PS4 - 264,793 units
PS3 - 72,974 units

[UCForce]

It's still pretty impressive in Japan. I hope people need to realize that console is still important in Japan, not just America.

Edit : @Donate It isn't fact. It subjective to you. Japan game is still important as US. You use your opinion to turn into your agenda. That's a low from you.

[MasterCornholio]

Sony sold over 1.5 million PS4s there so the market is still important to them.

@Badz

Oops

I guess I meant over 3 million.

Thanks for the correction

http://www.dualshockers.com...

[badz149]

@MasterCornholio

1.5mil units? dude you're missing the mark by 100%! next week numbers will defintely pull the PS4 ahead of the Wii U in Japan and the total world domination is complete!

[donthate]

Considering Japan was the world center for consoles and had the majority market, whereas now it isn't barely a 5% of the worldwide market, i would say Japan is insignificant.

Worldwide there is 60+ million consoles between MS and Sony to put that in perspective, whereas Japan only has 3 million of that.

Consoles are dead in Japan, and they all but moved to handhelds, and even that is migrating towards mobile platform. Hence why Nintendo is going there instead of competing with MS/Sony directly. Facts are facts.

[rainslacker]

@donthate

Think you meant to say that the Xbox brand is insignificant(or dead) in Japan. PS4 has approximately 40 million sold worldwide, and 3 million in japan. Japan makes up 7.5% of PS4 sales, and PS4 sales make up roughly 66% of worldwide console sales.

Now, I'm no business major, but 7.5% of a systems sales being in an individual region tends to mean it's significant.

To put it in perspective. Last year, gaming revenues across the board were 76 billion. 5% of that is 1.5 billion dollars.

Wanna know how significant the console market is in Japan? Well, for Atlus, they just sold 337K copies of a game. That's pretty significant.

Here's a thought. Maybe if Xbox fan boys stopped saying Japan doesn't matter, more Japanese people wouldn't be put off by the Xbox. In the same way many people are put off by people from the PC Master race, when you dismiss a whole market because it doesn't serve your console war prioritites, that market tends to think the people who play on a particular console are nothing but a**holes.

Sure, console sales are declining in Japan, but they aren't dead.

[donthate]

rain:

Contrast that 7.5% (with your mental gymnastics) with 50% it used to be. Yeah, next generation it will be what? 2%, nah 3%.

337k copies of a game? Yeah, the US sells millions easily. Heck, there are countries in Europe that sell more than Japan.

Point being, Japan is heading towards relevancy faster than the implosion of Sony so far which is quite ironic.

[MasterCornholio]

Thats pretty impressive for Japan.

@Angel

I corrected my mistake.

Thanks for pointing it out.

[Angeljuice]

1.5 million? Sony have sold 3,217,591 PS4's in Japan (according to the article).

[DialgaMarine]

@MasterCornholio Sony has actually sold over 3 million PS4 units in Japan. They passed that mark back in mid-July. With this news, it's probably around 3.3 million now.

[MasterCornholio]

I saw that.

Thanks for pointing that out though. I corrected my original comment to reflect that

[Fatal-Aim]

Xbox is about to lose that good ol' winning streak if the numbers are looking like this in Japan.

[LexHazard79]

PS3 still going strong.

[italiangamer]

Now imagine in the rest of the world where the PS4 sells a lot more than Japan... super sky high sales. I personally can't wait for the PRO, gotta take advantage of all that power thanks to my 4K TV.

[Teflon02]

Persona 4 Golden sold like 1.1 or 1.2 million on Vita physical so imagine what ps4 sales will be. Hope it atleast hits 3 mill lifetime. But I think it'll be 2.25 honestly maybe more since wom will probably do it justice like it did p4g

[iNathan]

But don´t forget guys that nobody wants a Ps4 Slim and it was a stupid move, so stupid that Ps4 had the biggest week since launch and Pro isn´t even out yet.

[DialgaMarine]

You gotta love the Xbox fanboy youtube channels and click bait sites that somehow get their crap approved on N4G. They're so out of touch with reality and honestly believe they speak the opinions for everyone. The only reason to pay any attention to their content is if you have a lot of popcorn on hand and already blew through all your tagged shows on Netflix lol

[Kiwi66]

Its not just the xbox clickbait sites that get their rubbish approved though as you see it for the other consoles also and its usually submitted from those who use them to trash the consoles etc to feed the fanboys

[rainslacker]

Imagine what's going to happen when FFXV or GT(very popular in Japan) finally drops.

[xetiro]

Actually since the week in Japan start counting from Sunday to Saturday and the PS4 Slim was released on a Thursday, that is almost 100K in 3 days of sales.

[FullmetalRoyale]

Hooray, Persona! 100% media blackout for me, and I really hope people avoid spoilers in their headlines. A man can dream!
I also hope P5 sales continue strong in Japan, and are strong upon the worldwide release, as well.

[Fist4achin]

Not bad for a launch week. Now bring on the games!

[0ROSOY]

Wow impressive numbers

[MoveTheGlow]

Good! They had enough supplies for when Persona 5 hit, then! I cannot wait for that game...

[OsafuneKatana]

Persona 5 FTW. The game going to sell minimum 2 million worldwide. So much for being a niche.

[VoodooProject]

That's why Japan gaming rules . Japan gaming dominates the world. Puts the USA to shame. Numbers don't lie as shown here. It even gets USA to buy their products.

[Xkiller]

Maybe try fooling someone else with your sarcastic BS, we know who your are from your post history.

[VoodooProject]

Even if it's sarcastic, doesn't Japanese/ Japan sell more units?

[UCForce]

Stop with that sarcastic ! You are not fooling anyone.

[Omran]

The salt is big here

[leoms]

I'm at a lost. You would expect that they would be busy with their XB1S 4K UHD by now. Yet, they come trolling on ps4 articles.

[Red_Renegade]

what was the point of that?

[Xkiller]

Persona 5 rocks baby. The impression from who have imported the game from Japan are glowing. Can't wait to play the game myself. Amazing ps4 numbers. Sony rules baby!

[TheColbertinator]

Good going for Atlus.

[Relientk77]

Sweet I'm excited for Persona 5 when it hits the West next year

[cash_longfellow]

Just wait until the FFXV and slim bundle releases..

[rainslacker]

GT:S is going to be huge too. It always does well in Japan.

I have a feeling Horizon is going to hit it big over there too.

[cash_longfellow]

Yep..consoles are about to make a huge comeback in Japan!

[DigimonMaster]

Glad to hear persona is selling well.

[XbKiGaandMaar]

Persona for life!

[neutralgamer1992]

but i thought slim and pro consoles no one wants well atleast according to n4g

[King_Lothric]

Yeah, they said is was the worst move Sony has made 😁

[neutralgamer1992]

lol they are no where to be found now

[cash_longfellow]

Silent majority ;)

[neutralgamer1992]

ps4 a world wide best selling console. since the launch till now ps4 has never lost a month to any console world wide

but i forgot world wide sales don't matter

[HAHAHAHAHAHAHA]

But npd man... thats all that counts haha

[Tussin187]

Yes and think about it. The NPD that MS just won got wiped out in less than a week from Japan's numbers alone. But keep that on the hush...hush

[neutralgamer1992]

that's why talk of xbox one ever catching up to ps4 is so ridiculous

[peewee11016]

Ps4 has yet to lose world wide.
Xbox peeople think NA is world wide. Notice how when they when in the US they can never say the worlds best selling console.

[DialgaMarine]

Considering that an average hardware week in Japan for PS4 is >20K units, this is phenomenal. Awesome to see PS4 really catching on there. Might actually surpass the PS3 if Japanese devs continue to give it such strong support.

[rainslacker]

I think more Japanese devs are actually moving back to more traditional Japanese design in their games this gen for home consoles where last gen they tried to hard to be like western games, or moved over to handhelds/mobile. While they're still doing a lot of handheld and mobile stuff, we're seeing a lot more high profile Japanese style games from Japanese devs on the PS4 this gen than last.

I'm loving it, because outside some stand out titles last gen, Japanese games were rather disappointing on consoles more often than not.

[StormLegend]

Best selling console worldwide and best gaming brand as of now!

[81BX]

Sony still churning along. Good job, well deserved. Well made product

[reaperofsouls]

But only sales in America count though /s

[Flyingdog670]

Never played a Persona game before, but i'm really interested in this game. Haven't fed my JRPG craving in a LONG time.

[leoms]

Bud, try P3 FES and P4 golden. I promise you won't regret it.

[tulholdren]

Nice can't wait for p5 going to be another awesome day 1 Sony exclusive. Family members already got slim and P5 on order . I personal already had P5 ordered.

[FallenAngel1984]

PS4 sold more in that one week than XO did in its entire lifetime in Japan

[Elda]

LOL! Oh yes!

[DivineAssault]

Good news. Everyone was crying "doom" because PS4 didnt sell well.. But like most of us predicted, they were waiting for the slim model and this game..

[Elda]

Of course! Japan was waiting for Persona 5 to take the plunge,with FFXV releasing for the holidays that'll move more consoles in Japan as well.

[MultiConsoleGamer]

Stellar debut numbers for P5!

[SegaGamer]

They you go, people say the Japanese gamers aren't buying consoles anymore......well, give them what they want and they will buy it.

[thisgamer503]

Damn, congrats sony. Those are awesome numbers for Japan.

[theshredded]

This over any 2017 game or current gen game!

[feraldrgn]

This makes me wonder which direction Japan is going, was it the size of the base PS4 that stopped them selling as well?

Genuine question here, it just seems like they're leaning towards handhelds & mobile.

[Neonridr]

Wowee! Crazy numbers.

[Roronoa0411]

Getting the steel book version as soon as it releases!

[MagicBeanz]

Congrats Sony well done!