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Kakadu18 on 19 June 2021
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curl-6 said:
Wman1996 said:

True, it has globally. What's insane to think about is that it still has sold 5 million less in Japan than the Saturn did. PS5 will probably finish its run years from now in Japan with similar numbers to the PS4, if not lower. I don't think a PlayStation platform can ever sell 10 million or more in Japan ever again. Even PS3 only managed 10.37 million in Japan despite not getting discontinued until 2017.

As I mentioned in my other post, Nintendo is really the only relevant platform holder in Japan. Sony has somewhat of a presence, and Xbox is almost nonexistent. Though the Series S/X seem to be doing slightly better in Japan so far than the Xbox One did at this point, apparently.

I don't know if I could say with confidence PS5 will sell less than PS4 in Japan as I am kind of expecting some aggressive moneyhatting of stuff like Dragon Quest, and for the moment I believe it's tracking ahead of PS4 in terms of hardware, but yeah the days of Sony being a competitive player in Japan are over. 

The Switch could well end up tripling its sales there.

Sony has never cared about Dragon Quest, Nintendo does.