animegaming said:
The issue is that in other regions when the PS5 gets a decent boost for its stock, the games for it like Demon Souls and Miles show a noticeable increase in sales. That ain't happening in Japan even though Soulsborne usually sells great in Japan and Spider-Man PS4 was second to Ghost of Tsushima for the best selling first-party game on PS4. Like for fucks sake, the lowest game on the chart is in the two thousand range and you would think of the very least something for the PS5 would show up, when numbers get that low. Something about the PS5 software sales just doesn't make sense. The PS4 never had this problem when it came to selling software at any point in its life. |
None of those games have ever carried a platform though. They've launched on 1m+ userbases, had a strong launch week then fallen of the charts. This is why I think its particularly hard for those launch titles to keep afloat months later. PS4 saw new releases chart but the only returning software entries in the top 40 was Battlefield 4 if I'm not mistaken. So I really think lack of new software is mostly the problem, PS4 had far more new releases in Japan within its first 2months alone.
As others said, purchasing going elsewhere in asia, a much higher digital ratio than past consoles, and a lottery like system may all be contributing to low software on the charts.
RE8 will be a very telling case study
