Famitsu sales: Week 3, 2022 - (10th Jan - 16th Jan)

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Slownenberg said:

Kneetos said:

Yes there is no cliff, just the downwards slope, I believe the switch will sell more in japan  2022 then the ps5 will sell lifetime in japan by the end of 2022, there are still a lot of games that are coming to playstation that usually do well

I bet my butt that dragon quest 12 will be on playstaion and sell better due to being timed exclusive

2022 sales:

That's such a weird prediction to make. Switch 2022 Japan sales have a good chance of doubling PS5 lifetime thru 2022 Japan sales. To predict it will merely outsell it is so a weird thing to say. Like of course it will, ytd Switch sales will pass PS5 lifetime to date sales probably around July, and destroy it over the holidays. This is about as bold a prediction as saying PS5 2022 Japan sales will surpass XBSeries lifetime to date sales by end of the year lol

DQ12:

It would be very bizarre if it was a timed exclusive for playstation. In Japan, the game would obviously get most of its sales from Switch. Japan software sales of PS4 are dead and software sales on PS5 after over a year have never gotten of life support. Switch sweeps like top 30 like it's a matter of routine these days. In other areas of the world maybe a PS4/PS5 sales combo would get more sales but overall globally it might be an even split. It'd make no sense to make it a timed exclusive, either for Switch or Playstation. 

Timed wouldn't make any sense, but full exclusive to Switch will. It's much cheaper to develop a game for the Switch than for the PS5 if it's a big franchise. They can even port it to pc, like they did with Monster Hunter Rise. This sounds like a more profitable approach. It's not only about revenue generated by a game, but also about the cost of a game. At this moment the costs of making a full fledged PS5 Xbox/PC version aside the Switch version might be to expensive. On PC the game will sell well regardless and Switch will do amazing as well.

PS5 will probably go on to sell a million units a year or less. Whilst Switch still has some 3 to 4 million years in Japan to look forward too. They can always make an OLED lite for Japan.