Japan 2019: Switch was up 29% YOY, made up 76% of all hardware sales, more

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Nu-13 said:

curl-6 said:

I'd say there's a decent chance PS5 performs notably worse in Japan than PS4, that seems to be the trend, with PS4 looking likely to sell less than PS3 despite having much better Japanese support with a mainline DQ and MH.

With the information we have right now, I'd say there's 99.9% chances the ps5 will do considerably worse than ps4 in japan. Ps4 will end behind the ps3 even though it had everything going for it. From lower starting price, better japanese lineup and little competition. Now the ps5 will face the post peak years of switch followed by the switch 2.

Yeah it seems most likely that the trend will continue. Japanese third parties will throw their all behind PS5, but a system that can only be played at home just doesn't seem to be a good fit for the modern Japanese lifestyle, plus it will miss out on so many of the games they're crazy about like Pokemon, Splatoon, Smash, etc.