Famitsu Sales: Week 29, 2022 (Jul 11 - Jul 17)

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leo-j said:

kenjab said:

Yes, I've been wondering this as well.  While I love my Series X, to this point it's still nothing more than a souped-up XBox One since there are hardly any exclusive games for it so far.  I really don't understand how the Series is so much more popular in Japan when it really doesn't do anything more than the XBox One, which barely sold anything there, and it doesn't have any big Japanese games like the 360 had.

Game Pass has been around since 2020 in Japan, maybe it's just been a slow adoption of that? But even then, what games on Game Pass are hitting for Japanese gamers? Minecraft and Human Fall Flat are popular in Japan, but it's gotta be more than that I think....

Smaller, more compact, stylish, and easily available (specifically the series S) while offering most of the same games PlayStation offers. It’s possible Japan gamers are opening their options to Xbox. 

yo33331 said:

curl-6 said:

I'm quite calm. 

It is unusual for a console's 6th year to be bigger than its 3rd year, I was merely remarking on this.

And 2022 is also looking to have a strong third trimester, at least given what we know at present.

Yes but you are repeating yourself almost every week.

The 2022 first half is on a little better level than 2019 first half (the 2022 is comng of of peak levels 2020, 2021 and 2019 was coming of of 2017 and 2018 sales levels) everyone sees and knows this. There is no need to be remainded every week.

As for the years, yes but also the Switch entire lifecycle and sales pattern are unusual.

And also no, it's 6th year won't be bigger than it's 3rd at the end.

But yeah. Switch just peaked a little bit later than normal, that's why it is the way it is.

You talk as if you know what you're talking about, yet you don't. Last summer you claimed that Switch WW would fall to Xbox series level sales very soon. How did that work out?

The Switch is way clear of 2019 atm and the gap is likely to get bigger! Also, Splatoon 3 and pokemon are coming this year. I would suggest your prediction is based more off wishful thinking than any real logic.