Global Hardware Jan 24-30 - PS5 Sales Top 5 Million

[The_Liquid_Laser]

RolStoppable said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Asia is really buying Switch like crazy.  There is no doubt that Switch is popular in Japan, but the rest of Asia sold about 13% of the Switch's worldwide total.  That is not a trivial little piece.  Here is a further regional breakdown for Switch just using a little subtraction.

Japan	114,209
N.A.	93,953
Europe	85,980
Asia (not Japan)	47,904
Oceania	13,158
Americas (not N.A.)	8,233

Mainland Asia's gaming tastes aren't too different from Japan's. Or to be more precise, South Korea and southeast Asia, because the Middle East is a different beast in cultural terms.

That's why it's shortsighted when people write off Nintendo's dominance in Japan as something isolated to Japan, because what happens in Japan will likely spill over, now that Nintendo has bothered to have an increased presence outside of their typical main territories.

Well, if the rest of the Pacific Asian region likes Animal Crossing and Ring Fit Adventure as much as Japan does, then that would definitely explain why their hardware sales are so high.