The PlayStation 4 is certainly the most successful console of the generation. However, it has only just outsold the Wii U in Japan. This could be explained by the Wii U’s earlier release date, but PlayStation has been ahead in worldwide sales for a considerable amount of time. This news has come from the latest Media Creates sales listings. The PS4’s sales have reached 3,267,243, passing the Wii U’s 3,265,329. Seeing as the Wii U’s life is coming to an end, it seems unlikely Nintendo could reclaim the lead in the next few months.
PlayStation 4 Surpasses Lifetime Wii U Sales In Japan
Honestly surprised it took this long.
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How unfortunate, I suppose…
||This entire generation is one big mess when you combine everything…||
HA HA HA, your right on that one…I mean, wow from the last news I heard…like people calling 911 OVER FACEBOOK BEING DOWN!!! You sir, couldn’t be further from the truth.
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Well deserved.
Great console
P4. I was surprised by this. I didn’t realize it until now, but apparently the game market in Japan isn’t very big and has been dwindling recently. Most of the market is dominated by mobile gaming, followed by handhelds. Home consoles simply aren’t the prefered game devices over there.
looks like you, the staff of MNN are very pleased by this ;)
I’m surprised it took them that long. Just speaks volumes of the amount of fans that Nintendo has even considering the somewhat short list of games available for Wii U. Quality sure is there but definitely not quantity.
It doesn’t speak to anything because the Wii U came out a year before the PS4 and Japan is more of a mobile and handheld country than anything else.
Hey Josh, the link for the Zelda clothing line article is not working… Pun not intended.
And of course it finally works two seconds after I write my comment.
And it’s back to not working. Unless my phone is just being stupid. Which is certainly possible.
Still not interested in a PS4 until Kingdom Hearts III comes out.
2018. But you should at least play 2.8 HD since it has a new game and movie in it for PS4 that leads right into KH III.
Hm. I’ve been neglecting 2.8 because I thought it was just an HD remake of Dream Drop Distance but if it’s got two other games mixed in, I should probably rectify that & buy it when I get the chance.
Losers
Losers? Sony is finally kicking Nintendo’s ass in home console sales in Japan. That’s not being a loser. Now if you meant Nintendo are the losers, you’d be right as the PS4 is only going to sell even more consoles as time goes on, burying the Wii U in Japan. Shame, really. Wii U had such high potential but now it’s just a joke.
||Yes they are winning against a machine we abandoned 2 years ago…||
It still counts since both are in the same gen. Not to mention Sony gave up on Vita years ago, too, yet people still celebrate how it’s losing to the 3DS.
||Because High Command never badmouths the imbeciles and sure it counts, but only for that reason alone, as a whole it’s very pathetic…||
Japan doesn’t seem to do home consoles like the West, which might be part of that
Of course the PS4 surpassed the Wii U at this point. And that gap is only going to get even bigger as the months roll by. Give it another year & that gap is going to be more of a chasm than a tiny little gap.
I don’t think it warrants a “congratulations” because honestly those numbers for both are just sad.
But then you look at Xbone’s numbers there and I don’t even know a word to describe it.
Yay Vita and 3DS in Japan tho.