Japanese Sales Charts: PS4 Numbers Remain Reasonable as Uncharted Climbs High

I guess if you extend the list far enough down, sure, you can say Uncharted placed relatively high. Losing to a three-month old game and a 3DS baseball game(?) in your debut week isn't exactly setting the charts on fire. I'd say it was still respectable given Japan's handheld bias, but Uncharted could barely even edge out the month-old Super Mario Maker.

Still a disappointment for debut numbers.

I was planning on going to Japan again, but I will probably go to America instead. Its a completely different world from 2001. Worried that the culture isn't my cup of tea anymore. Yo Kai watch busters??? No thanks.

@themcnoisy Pokémon was popular too back in 01. Not getting why you think things are so different. Yokai Watch is basically a new Pokémon/Digimon

@adf86 From www.pushsquare.com/news/2015/04/japanese_sales_charts_playstation_4_and_bloodborne_slaughter_the_competitionn , Bloodborne sold 150,000 copies in Japan its first week. Not a perfect analogue, but I'd think the target demographic should at least be close.

@Fath Not the same demographic at all. Bloodborne having much more RPG elements and being created by a fairly popular Japanese developer. It has been known for quite some time that western made games generally don't do as well in Japan. Of course there are some exceptions, but trying to compare sales numbers of Bloodborne, the first From Soft exclusive on ps4, to Drake collection is completely erroneous.

@SonyInfinity So Bloodborne is a classic JRPG, and Uncharted is a niche game, whose niche is apparently... dudebros? Roger.

I should've just left it at Dominican's concise assesment: still a disappointment for debut numbers.

@Fath Bloodburne is a PS4 exclusive, all 3 Uncharted games have released in the last few years on PS3, PS3 was very big in Japan. Know what isn't big in Jspan? Apartments. They still all probably have the same size TV now as they did back tnen. The only real question is why anybody would buy a 3 pack of games they probably already own. Some of the other remaster numbers would be a fairer compsrison. Though I'd bet FFX didfbetter, unless they all just bought the new PS3 HD bundle.

ok, history aside, old Drake outsold new FIFA 25k to 20k, that's probably enough to know. Comparing anything on PS4 to Yokai-Crack probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense. 3DS install base must be about 10x larger, though I have no clue about the numbers, 18m to 1.8m maybe.

@Fath My point still stands, they are not comparable.

@rjejr You're really, really good at guessing those install base numbers - VGChartz puts them at 19.13mil vs. 1.67mil. Nice job on that. Good suggestion on what a better comparison would be, Bloodborne was just the first thing I could come up with for "actioney PS4 exclusive" during my lunch break.

Finding numbers for The Last of Us Remastered's Japanese launch week was much harder than it should've been, since Pushsquare apparently just didn't care to report the Media Create charts in late 2014, but according to http://operationrainfall.com/2014/08/27/media-create-aug-18-24-2014/, that game charted 30k in its first week in Japan, for a title containing only one game as opposed to this one's three, and whose original version had launched only one year prior (mid-2013) instead of the 4-8 years prior (2007-2011) of the Uncharted series. Though, coincidentally, it also lost the top spot to a Yokai Watch game - those things are indeed scary.

Anyway, the whole point I was trying to make in my post was that after headlining this article with "Uncharted Climbs High" and "There's a cheeky little grin on Nathan Drake's face," the actual numbers for the Uncharted Collection are... not that impressive. I come here from Nintendolife for news from the other side, and it just bugs me that compared to its sister site, this one acts more like a fansite than a news site. Maybe that's just selective persecution from my Nintendo fanboyism talking, though.

@Fath The simple fact remains that Uncharted came in at number 3 in the charts. That's climbing high - the headline said nothing about numbers. Besides, it's the only PlayStation chart entry that makes for any interesting point whatsoever.

Why do all gaming websites seem to be insistent on calling Japan the "Land of the Rising Sun" in almost every article related to it?

I mean I know it is the land of the rising sun (just like every other country), but we don't go round calling Australia "land of the kangaroo", or the UK "ye olde land o' fish n chips" or the US "land of 52 states" etc...

Drives me bananas!

@Dodoo When life life drives you bananas... make banana pudding.

@FATHASUN Haha, great advice thank you!

@Fath Wow, that was a good guess on my part. I had some idea about where things sat but I really just wanted a nice round 10x number.

"that compared to its sister site, this one acts more like a fansite than a news site."

Oh this is much more of a fan site than NL, which has always been conducted more like a business. A little personal history that you probably don't care about:

I started going to NL about 8 or 9 years ago when it was a smaller website VC-reviews.com covering VC games on the Wii. Then they merged, or probably more likely got gobbled up, by a much larger corporate type website and became NL. I really liked it over there and asked if they knew of any similar sites. Corby (possibly 1 Corby Dilliard who possibly ran VC-reviews) told me some guy named Sammy who used to work for them at NL left to start his own Sony Playstation site. So I started coming here. And I was pretty much the only person coming here regularly for about 2 years before NL "merged" w/ PS. This site has changed some since then when Sammy was pretty much a 1 man show updating constantly day and night 7 days a week without end. (Well at least on the front end, probably were backoffice people involved.) So while the site has gone corporate, Sammy still maintains his youthful exuberance, which I like. Though of course tastes vary. There's also some history w/ some Xbox website mergers but I don't follow Xbox so you'd have to ask somebody else about that.

I'm not related to this site and thats all off the top of my head so don't take it as gospel, just the general gist of why this seems more "fanboi". Though I'll give Thomas Whitehead his due over at NL, guys literary, I think that focuses things over there as they take his lead. Well except Alex, Alex knows how to have fun. Be a boring world if everyone was the same.