thismeintiel said:
Worse than Wii U, huh? So is it your prediction that the PS5 is going to do less than 3.3M in Japan? It's hilarious to see people talk about the Wii U being ahead of the PS5 currently, yet conveniently forget that the Wii U was heavily front loaded and completely collapsed later on, while the PS5 is constantly closing the gap and will most likely sell 2.5x-3x more than the Wii U. It is currently outpacing the PS4. Japan has been moving away from dedicated home console HW for decades, now. There's really no point in acting like the PS5's performance comes as a big shock and PS is in trouble. Even the mighty Wii sold only 12.77M in Japan. Japanese devs are going to continue to support PS because their games are selling. I mean even if you wish to pretend the digital ratio is lower than everywhere else in the world and Japanese people are just buying PS5s for them as art pieces, those games are selling elsewhere in the world. |
The software sales of the Wii U were several times better than the PS5's.
Games that are selling the most in Japan are only going to make losses on the PS5.
Many PS5s are being shipped outside of Japan and sold for a profit.
I personally expect the PS5 to sell around 7 million units in Japan in the end.
