Famitsu sales: Week 4, 2022 - (17th Jan - 23rd Jan)

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tbone51 said:

siebensus4 said:

Good PS5 and XBS stock. Looks like Switch will be down at least 30 % in Japan this year. Maybe the second half of the year will look a bit better with Splatoon 3 and Zelda. The OLED model doesn't seem to be the big savior.

OLED is having some stock problems, we can’t gauge OLED yet imo. As for “least” 30% down YoY I disagree hard with. 1 your judging based off of 2021, when 2021 had a huge Q1. So YoY will look lopsided if you only look at Q1 comparison.

30% down at minimum is roughly 3.9mil…. And that’s your ceiling. Problem is it’s tracking ahead of 2018/2019 which did 3.5mil and 4.4mil respectively. 30% is the most it’ll go down, this year will be between 4mil and 5mil

The overall Q1 comp with '21 is going to be really tough this year.  Not only was January really big last year, but March had Monster Hunter Rise which also pushed a LOT of hardware.  We'll see what effect Pokemon has next week, but it's possible this Q1 will end up more than 30% lower than last year based on those comps.