Not bad for Persona 5 Royal. However, I was expecting a bigger hardware boost for PS4.

It's actually bigger than that since Nintendo reported 10 million units sold in Japan, meaning Famitsu and VGC has it undertracked by around 200k.

Its gonna take more than that to be competitive in Japan, they would need to have a stream of EXCLUSIVE japanese games which used to be the case back on the PS3 era, where many japanese games would release on PS3 and Vita but once the Vita died and there was no Sony succesor for it all those games that used to be exclusve to PS ended up releasing on PS4 and Switch, which KILLED the one thing that made PS appealing on JP, all those sweet exclusive japanese games that ranged from fighting games, RPGs, Dungeon Crawlers, Visual Novels, dumb ecchi games etc.

In a way once the Vita died so did what made PS (home consoles) appealing in Japan, and i say it because all of those games used to have a handheld version and since there was no Vita 2 then Switch it is, so they went from exclusive to multiplatform.

and lets be honest the truth is that even if sony created an extra 6 japanese first party studios that focused solely on making japanese centric games they still wouldnt stand a chance against Nintendo, simply because almost all (if not all) first party games from Ninty appeal to the Japanese not to mention the popularity some of those games have like Pokemon or Mario its just not even a competition at this point.

Updated the OP with the Top 30

P5R being PS4 only definetly Hurts, PS3 version accounted for 1/4 of p5 launch week sales. P5R Launch is only moderately better then p4g's launch. Considering the massive jump in sales for a portable port (p3 to p3p, p4 to golden) atlus is missing out on a large portion of potential audience here.

Sony's being kind of blind here they are at a very real risk of losing a lot next gen globally if they don't fix the cracks that are showing. Vita being abandoned meant that many devs are going multiplatform, and thouse niche games might go switch only considering switch will be the only viable console in Japan while also having a decent global reach. If Sony loses thouse they have a real shot of losing the WESTERN side to Xbox if they actually get thier shit together after the xbone by losing the one major edge ps always had over MS, Japanese games.
And this time, unlike the PS3, there will be no strong Sony corporate to prop them up.

Somebody have numbers with demat ?

You're being so pessimistic, it hurts. 

True. I'm just pointing out the cracks

Sony could still easily minimize the effect of any of these. But the cracks are there, and sony'arrogence and the market situation mirror that of early PS3 day globally.

They can pretty easily be fine, but they can far SOO far if they don't pull iff the ps5 right.

Well said. And 100% true. The ps5 will be doa in Japan.

 Not even a blip on the radar. It's all switch, all the time there. Sony can't challenge their dominance there. Now, Nintendo needs to get their ass in gear in the UK to challenge Sony there to make a real run at the title. 

Yup. I actually expect PS5 to be the first console ever to sell negative numbers in Japan. What I'm saying is that I think Japanese gamers will import PS5 from South Korea and return it in Japan just to show Sony how DOA it is.