Famitsu sales: Week 16, 2022 - (11th Apr - 17th Apr)

[Otter]

Wyrdness said:

Otter said:

Despite dominating the market, Sony have at points shipped only 50 units in countries like spain whilst in the same week their competition shipments have been in the 1000s. Even if Sony could sell 100k units in Japan for several weeks, they can sell those same numbers elsewhere like US/UK where their would be higher spend per console. 

Again people are going off over a year of data so their views are reasonable and it's not comparable to the situation with Switch predictions, you can say what you think could happen but so far the numbers back their views and not that of the PS5 being the best selling for months scenario.

My argument wasn't that it will be the best selling for months, simply that demand is pent up and way outstrips supply (which current software sales can't reflect) and a retailer said its 30x higher than current demand, which they did. We know it's supply constraint, so using a year worth of supply constraint sales data is a bit pointless in discussing actual "demand" or peak potential sales we could hypothetically see in a week without contraints. We have plenty of data points to look to like lotteries, being constantly sold out, being sold for high prices on Amazon JP, randomly fluctuating sales according to supply alone, hardware that thats not impacted by its biggest software releases. This mountain of evidence is why their stances demanding "proof" that there is much higher demand than current sales show, doesnt seem reasonable if we're taking the wider picture into account. It's more or less denial at this point. 

Last edited by Otter - on 22 April 2022