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

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The_Liquid_Laser said:

Otter said:

PS5 in Japan - Nojima Online announced their lottery results for people who applied to buy PS5 - Standard model has demand exceeding supply by about 60x and digital by about 30x, up from 20x and 30x in Sept. #PS5

— David Gibson (@gibbogame) October 25, 2021

PS5s weirdly low software attach ratio is gonna continue for a while. It probably will not come into its own until late 2022

I don't think PS5 software sales are weirdly low.  I think PS5 hardware sales are weirdly high.  That explains the weird attach ratio.  

Assuming the PS5 sales are mostly due to scalpers, they should have a noticeable decline in hardware sales during the early part of next year.  Once we get past holiday sales, the scalpers in Japan will focus more on OLED instead of PS5.  Of course, if PS5 sales in Japan stay good for all of next year, then I have to conclude that it isn't just scalpers causing most of its sales.  However, right now I'm assuming it's scalpers.

This is nonsensical. Scalpers buy high-demand products because they know people are desperate to get them and willing to pay above RRP. Suggesting that if scalpers didn't buy them the PS5 sales would be less and would be readily in-stock is illogical. If that were true then the scalpers would be getting more PS5's then they can sell and they would have stopped buying. It makes zero sense.

Scalping only exists for products that would actually sell-out if there was no scalping.