Famitsu sales: Week 1, 2022 - (27th Dec - 2nd Jan)

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tbone51 said:

Amnesia said:

312K --> 196K

Call this "chip shortage" or whatever. For me this is the beginning of the end, next machine announced beginning of 2023.

If people had to base off of 1 week of sales to make a major decision like that we be on the ps9 by now

Heh, yeah that is one of those premises that is basically irrelevant to the conclusion.  It is one week in one territory, so Nintendo will definitely base the release of their next system based on that.   Or maybe there are other things to consider like

1.  Hardware is still in short supply in the US.  Also, Japan tends to track ahead of other territories in terms of % of lifetime sales.

2.  Software sales are actually more important in terms of when to release new hardware, because software is where most of the profit comes from.  This year looks like it will be significantly up YoY from 2021 in software sales, both in Japan and worldwide.

3.  Nintendo is going to release a lot of titles this year including some heavy hitters.  They wouldn't do that the year before they are going to release a new system.  The year before the next system releases should look kind of light software wise, because they will be developing for the next system instead.