Playstation 5 vs XBox Series Market Share Estimates

[TheBraveGallade]

derpysquirtle64 said:

Blood_Tears said:

The Japanese support in Japan specifically has been very poor this gen and I don't think Tango is going to change that. A lot of Japanese devs don't even release the Xbox sku over there on multiplat games. 

The Series X+S will likely sell less than X1 in Japan over all. Selling out a low stock shipment for launch day on Amazon Japan won't change much and Gamepass for Japanese heavy hitters like KH, FF or DQ comes years after the initial Japanese release. I would be very surprised if they even sell 75k there for the Series family when it's all said and done. That's not progress. 

Those who say that Xbox will win some marketshare in Japan are right though. It's not optimism, it's common sense. You know how they'll do it. Even in worst case scenario, that you mention - if they just sell 75k. Okay, that's just around 30-40k loss compared to what they have this gen. But PS5 is very likely to sell a couple millions less than PS4 did. And that's where marketshare gain comes for Xbox. If you lose way less than your rival, you get some marketshare back

pretty much.

The only way the ps5 sells as much as the ps4 in japan is if they pull out ALL the stops to make it appealing to japan, which i don't see them doing as japanese market trends are opposite to what appealing to the mainstream west is.

and plus, ps4 honestly won by default last gen.