OTBWY said:
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.
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My guy, the software sales for PS5 in Japan are terrible. Don't know what else to tell you.
Also @src Zhuge said that there is good indication of that 1 million PS5s sold in Japan, actually many are being shipped overseas.
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Both of you are correct. Software sales for PS5 is Japan are terrible. Japanese games are selling well on Playstation globally. Those are not mutually exclusive statements and both of those statements actually describe well enough what is going in terms of domestic and global software sales for Japanese games on Playstation. So the developers that focus on Japan, something like the Minna no Golf developers who have already dropped their exclusive PlayStation releases, are not going to stay. What needs to be understood though, is that those developers made up an bafflingly low percentage of software sold on Playstation anyway, be it in Japan or globally. Sony is at no risk of losing any Japanese developer that would have any large impact to their current strategy.
Last edited by Megiddo - on 24 September 2021
