Famitsu Sales: Week 28, 2020 (Jul 06 - Jul 12)

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Bofferbrauer2 said:

src said:

There's so much wrong with this post that its hard to know where to even start.

PS5 will likely do as well as PS3/4 (9-10 million) which is still good. The national sensation that was the Wii only did 12.75 million. Software sales for PS4 are still strong, and even with low digital percentages have surpassed the PS3.

PS4 continues to get better Japanese support that the SW/3DS, and the same will be true for PS5. Playstation always get the best Japanese support simply due to their global software and hardware sales. Domestic sales are not as relevant and even if they were PS4/5 would still get said support.

You mention historical trends yet completely lie about said trends. I'll be showing both WW and JP:

Persona 5, Nier, Nioh, DQH/B, MHW, RE7, RE2R, DMCV, FFXV, FF7R, KH3, DBZ, Naruto, AC7, EDF, Power Pro Baseball, all showed record breaking growth largely if not entirely due to Playstation.

Atlus best selling game of all time is Persona 5 (PS4/3)

Tecmo best selling game of all time is Nioh (sales mostly on PS4)

Capcoms best selling game of all time MHW (sales mostly on PS4)

RE2R and RE7 outpacing RE5/6 (sales mostly on PS4)

DMCV best selling game in the franchise (sales mostly on PS4)

FFXV on track to match FF7/10 (sales mostly on PS4)

FF7R fastest selling FF of all time (exclusive on PS4)

KH3 fastest selling KH of all time (sales mostly on PS4)

DBZ,Naruto best selling anime games of all time (sales mostly on PS4)

AC7 broke franchise records overseas (sales mostly on PS4)

EDF5 best selling EDF of all time (exclusively on PS4)

Power Pro best selling since PS2 entries (PS4/V)

As you can see, in reality JP third parties have had record breaking success on PS4 and hence its no surprise that PS5 support will be stronger than SW.

Despite all that:

PS4: lowest-selling Playstation console in Japan of all times.

You're conflating worldwide sales with Japan sales. We're talking strictly about sales in Japan here, but you talk about worldwide sales. Most of those games did pretty poorly in their home market.

Wrong.

The conversation was about JP third party software, which is determined by global sales, not just domestic sales, hence why PS4 gets better support than SW and Ps5 will continue that.

Bofferbrauer2 said:

src said:

PS5 is a considerably easier market. You guys continue to miss the driving factor for software development: software/ecosystem sales.

3DS/PSV was stronger competition to PS3/4 than SW will ever be, simply because they allowed devs to go exclusive to those platforms. SW can't do that because PS4 makes too much money for JP third party devs.

case in point, CAPCOM. PS4 has almost 8 times the sales of SW.

That's FY 2018, which ended March 2018. It would have been shocking if PS4 wouldn't have beaten the Switch by a large margin at the time, especially with the MHW launch in January. Also, again, that's worldwide sales, not just Japan, which is what this thread is all about.

Try a newer one for size. The one for FY 2020 doesn't seem ready yet (last update October 15), but the one for FY 2019 is. PS4 still leading, but sales dropped quite a bit while Switch sales almost doubled over the previous year:

Also, keep in mind those are just the physical sales, as digital sales are being counted separately and without distinction to which platform sold how much.

This just further proves why JP third parties place PS4 as number 1: 65% of Capcoms packaged sales came from PS4. SW accounted for 19.5%.