Famitsu sales: Week 42, 2021 - (11th Oct - 17th Oct)

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Lots of Playstation titles on the top 30 now. It's been a while since I've seen Playstation do this well. Even Far Cry 6 for PS5 made it on the charts for a second week. Japanese games seem to take about 4 years to develop, so I think we'll be seeing plenty of new Playstation titles entering the charts until 2023-2024. It seems irrational, but these games have been in development long enough that they keep releasing them on Playstation anyway, because they are kind of past the point of no return. The games releasing now probably started development in 2017, which is when the Switch was still a brand new system and Playstation was still doing quite well in Japan.

I figured XBox Series X|S would do better than XB1 worldwide, but I never thought it would do this well in Japan. I'm still not clear if this is due more to scalpers or due to Gamepass. I think PS5 sales will probably nosedive sometime early next year. Once we get past the holidays, scalpers will focus more on Switch OLED rather than PS5. It will be interersting to see if X|S sales nosedive too. I'm still not sure what is driving XBox sales.