PS4 vs PS3 in Japan – VGChartz Gap Charts – July 2019 Update - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 14 September 2019 / 4,493 Views
The VGChartz Gap charts are updated monthly and each article focuses on a different gap chart. The charts include comparisons between the 7th generation and 8th generation platforms, as well as comparisons within the 8th generation. All sales are worldwide, unless otherwise stated.
PS4 Vs. PS3 Japan:
Gap change in latest month: 27,361 – PS3
Gap change over last 12 months: 196,895 – PS3
Total Lead: 110,489 – PS4
PlayStation 4 Total Sales: 8,258,448
PlayStation 3 Total Sales: 8,147,959
July 2019 is the 66th month of the PlayStation 4 being on sale in Japan. The gap grew in favor of the PlayStation 3 by 27,361 units in the last month and in favor of the PlayStation 3 by 196,895 units in the last 12 months. The PlayStation 4 currently leads by just 110,489 units.
The PlayStation 3 launched in November 2006, while the PlayStation 4 launched in February 2014. The PlayStation 4 has sold 8.26 million units, while its predecessor the PlayStation 3 sold 8.15 million units.
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You know, when you consider the circumstances, the PS3 performed much better in Japan than the PS4 has. The PS4 had each of the following games that the PS3 DIDN'T have: - Dragon Quest. - Monster Hunter. - Kingdom Hearts. It has gotten more big, substantial support from Japanese developers and franchises than the PS3 had. Yet, despite this, it is clinging to a very slim and shrinking lead that could be gone very soon.
To Sony's credit, they at least managed to turn their ship around after absolutely disastrous first year sales, where it even got beaten by the likes of the Wii U, they will still manage to sell around 10M total in the end. And I agree that these big IP had quite some part in it, otherwise I'm sure it wouldn't have come close to the PS3 sales and only reached about 8M LT instead of around 10M
PS4 losing more and more of it's lead. PS3 will probably overtake the PS4 during it's next holiday season, never to look back again.
PS3 sold about 10.5M, so the PS4 would need to sell an additional 2.3M to reach that. But it's weekly sales have already dropped far below what the PS3 pulled at that time. PS4 is already 400k below last year's sales at this point and the way it sells, it will have a hard time to crack 1M sales this year. By comparison the PS3 sold 1.25M in it's 6th year and 870k in it's 7th. Unless Sony halves the price and brings a couple more heavy hitters, I don't see how it will be able to keep up with the PS3 anymore.
That's possible, but it depends on if we see a PS4 Super Slim for a very good price this year.
Unless it is at least 10k Yen cheaper, I'll have my doubts. PS3 was selling about 18k weekly by that point, while the PS4 barely sells above 10k, so I doubt a 5000 Yen pricecut would be enough outside of the first few weeks.
Close race, especially when you consider PS3 didn't get a mainline Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest like PS4 did.
I don’t think it’s gonna make it.
