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

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Zippy6 said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

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.

In Japan the sales may have been lower without scalping. Many PS5s are being bought in Japan and shipped into other countries, where demand is higher.

I think ~30-40% of the PS5s sold in Japan are scalped.