I agree lol

"Oh boy! I get to see the top 50 best selling titles of all time in Japan!"
clicks link
"Oh. :-|"

Edited ;)

you're surprised by call of duty... but not Knack at number 8? anywhere in the world Knack shouldn't be on the top 10 list of ps4 games, not even the kids of the creators of Knack are forced to play that game.

@Ganon. Probably because it was at launch. Just like 1 2 Switch.

Knack wasn't just at launch, it was bundled. In fact it was the ONLY bundle available, and you couldn't get the console without it. Wii Sports style. Only for the first few months though. Some suspect it held the console back in the region.

Wow Hylian that's pretty bad, even for the people that game was trying to appeal to, it still borders on the side of tech demo rather than actual fun game, definitely no way to start your PS4 game collection off.

I know. I honestly think that's why PS4 took so long to catch up to PS3 in Japan launch aligned when everywhere else it was always way ahead. The Japanese didn't want that game any more than anywhere else did. I just looked it up on our old charts, about 395,000 copies of Knack were sold in Japan as part of that bundle before it was discontinued after just 3 weeks. After those 3 bundled weeks, Knack sold a mere 5,000 copies unbundled in Japan. Meanwhile the hardware sales of PS4 went up after it was unbundled.

What can you even call software like that? the opposite of a system seller.... a system sells preventer? Like something where they could go on stage at E3 and announce it's no longer being included with the system and that would be met with applause :D

And somehow, Knack got a sequel. Let that sink in...

11 and #39

I doubt it since Kingdom Hearts, as shown in MC, is at 700k physical, same as here. So most if not all of the numbers shown here must be physical only.

I was going to say it might have been a forced bundling.

Well done to Monster Hunter Worlds. Great game and a wonderful way to start the year with on its release.

Knack was bundled and the bundle was the only SKU available at launch.

The ps3 had 2. The ps4 has 3 with the potential for 5 in total. MHW, DQ11, FFXV, KH3 and ff7. The gens not over so there could be another surprise hit like gran blue fantasy. Overall the ps4 is beating the ps3 in hardware and software aligned despite as you say a big market contraction. Sony have done well this gen in Japan.

I wonder this too about the Japanese Market. You maybe right about the dominance of the western developers. A western game can sell multiple millions around the world while a Japanese developer not fair nearly as well (not including Mario obviously) when you take a look at japenese games they are far from appealing to us westerners. There are those who love Japan rpg games but they are in a small minority. And I can only imagine they get bored of the same generic rpg game. I feel that Western developers are more creative in design, story, are producing far better technologies etc. I think the Japanese Market is saturated with the same genre of games and as they aren't big on western games the market suffers because of this. Love to see the game attached rate on PS4 compared to ps1

Im pretty sure this is just physical sales. i remember Famitsu said that MH sold 2.85 million in Japan including digital. That is around 30% of total sales.

realistically though, they might have less sales in Japan now, but they are ruling both EU and NA, stealing NA from MS was something I would never have imagined in the PS3 era, given that each household there had a Call of Duty Box 360 in it, for that to have turned around so much is crazy from Sony reaching over the seas from Japan.