Japanese Sales Charts: PS4 Numbers Jump as the Holidays Draw Near

With a few exceptions every now and then, the Japanese best sellers list are way more in tune with what I think should be on top, than the UK charts. I'm a cute Japanese girl caught in a beautiful African male body...

@Boerewors the charts here could do with better games at the top

@Spade_the_prinny
That's just another way of saying you feel like a cute Japanese girl. Stop hiding from it, you are what you are.

Loads of variety in the Japanese chart which is good to see. What's Mario and Luigi paper jam? Is the toilet plumbing simulator we have all been waiting for?

And they just keep chugging along. Will be interested in seeing how many copies of FF15 and DQ11 sell when they are released for the ps4.

I wouldn't have expected 3DS to fall that much. Still easily better than anything else, just surprised it wasn't in the 90K to 110K range again. Meh for all other systems as usual. Like I've been saying if PS4 can top out at 20K that's about as good as we can hope for. Will be interesting to see how the NX will or won't shake things up when it comes out. I think that's the last shot to bring home console gaming back in Japan.

@themcnoisy
Unfortunately no, we're still waiting for the plumbing sim. The Mario & Luigi series is a handheld-exclusive RPG spinoff series that's been going strong since the GameBoy Advance. The games are similar to those in the Paper Mario series, which is another RPG line of games- albeit with a different flavor. This particular entry is a mashup of both the Mario & Luigi and Paper Mario series.

Core gameplay revolves around an assigned button for Mario (like A), a separate button for Luigi (like B) and in this crossover, a third button is introduced for Paper Mario (like Y). You control all 3 in tandem but commands must be given to each character separately, which makes for some "easy to learn, hard to master" gameplay.

How many 3DS LL do a japanese personen have.....

It seems like it's better than the UK chart at first glance, but nearly every single game there is in an enormous franchise (that's been running for at least 10 or 20 years in most cases.) 10% of the chart is Pokemon, 10% is Mario, 10% is Yokai Watch, 10% is Minecraft. Separately, 40% of the games are from a single corporation.

That said, its interesting to see some major Western franchises in there. In that sense, they actually seem to have more of our releases in there than we do of theirs, most of the time. I'm sure that will change as the generation goes forwards and we get the DQs, FFs, SFs, SOs and so on.

I wish Xbox was doing better in Japan. I would love to see more JRPG's make their way to the console like it did for the original Xbox and the early years of the 360.

I wonder where everything started to go wrong, because initially, Japan was willing to support Microsoft...

@Utena-mobile Was it really, though? Even with the likes of exclusive JRPGs like Blue Dragon, the Xbox 360 still struggled in Japan even with the PS3's troubled beginnings. Microsoft definitely gave it a shot though, I agree.

@Utena-mobile
Have to agree with @ShogunRok on this one. Xbox 360 was more successful in Japan than the original Xbox but the brand never really took off over there. Not to say it didn't have an impact to some degree. Before Halo 5, which has proven to be the least popular mainline Halo release, that series was pretty big in Japan and I believe the 360 did top over 1 mil lifetime sales, which frankly considering how bad the Xbox One is selling in Japan that doesn't look so bad in comparison. Can't fault the effort on MS' part but unfortunately it could never formulate the right strategy to gain solid Japanese mindshare.

@Gamer83 @ShogunRok
Well, when I said initially, I meant the original Xbox. But maybe I remember everything wrong. I never owned an Xbox, and the only time I ever played one was the time I had to do a school project and went over to my partner's house to work on the project and he invited a few of his friends as well and we had a LAN party instead. I remember he had a ton of Japanese games besides Halo. lol. maybe he owned all of the Japanese games and there actually wasn't a whole lot.

@Boerewors
You don't have to be Japanese, this is what it should be in the U.S. too (although I feel like Call of Duty shouldn't be on the list at all if we lived in my world). My world.... Huaahahahahahahaha

@Boerewors Ilike cute Japanese girls do you ever dress as one also. but serious i feel the same and why my xbox one is collecting dust they have no rpgs and they have no Japanese support or 3rd party games , not like sony its packed with greatness like akibas trip,dragon quest, disegiea,so much more