Following the price cut for the PlayStation 4 the world around, stat crunchers and sales enumerators have been putting in the time to compare where the console sits in some market regions, including the home territory of Japan.

According to DualShockers the PS4 has managed to hit 1.8 million SKUs being sold for its lifetime in the land of the rising sun. The Wii U has supposedly moved 2.6 million units in Japan, where it still stands as the eight-gen leader in the far east.

According to Gematsu, they picked up numbers of the sales in Japan on the week ending on October 4th from 4Gamer. The numbers show that the PS4 had a massive kick-up in sales compared to the past where it struggled competitively in head-to-head sales with the Wii U each week.

The PS4 moved 46,177 in the last week, up from only 4,071 units being moved the week before. That $50 price-cut really helped, eh?

The Wii U was fourth place in the previous week, only moving 12,843, just behind the PS Vita, which managed to shift 15,237 units in Japan.

One argument is that the sales in Japan are as far behind for the PS4 compared to the Wii U because the Wii U had a year head-start on the PS4. However, that doesn’t really hold much weight given that the Wii U had a head-start on the PS4 and Xbox One the world around but that didn’t stop the PS4 from outselling the Wii U in Europe and North America.

The PS4 had struggled in the past to outsell the Wii U in Japan. Some reasons given were that the console just wasn’t as appealing because too many of the games on the PS4 were geared toward western audiences. It’s a sensible argument given that Japanese gamers had to wait more than a year before games like Bloodborne, Dead or Alive and Yoru no Nai Kuni to launch.

If Nintendo doesn’t do a price-cut on the Wii U it’ll only be a matter of months before the PS4 passes up the Wii U in Japan. It’s a real shame because the Wii U could have moved far more units had Nintendo just been more aggressive with the marketing and the pricing of the system, but they kept trying to say they weren’t competing with the Xbox One and PS4 and they paid dearly for it.

As for the Xbox One… well, it’s barely moving 200 units a week in Japan… so… yeah this gif basically sums up the Xbox One in Japan.

(Main image courtesy of System Wars Magazine)