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Kai_Mao on 03 February 2023
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Kneetos said:

Ps5 winning in Japan
Guess that explains why all my notifications were blowing up.

So many threads which haven't spoken about Japanese sales since the switch's dominance began all came back from the grave all at once

Guess they were bored of seeing the Switch sell at an incredible pace while the PS4/5 were left in the dust in recent years?

Im not surprised that the PS5 outsold the Switch this week. Only the third time, since the PS5 launched, has that happened at this point. Will it keep it up we’ll have to see. But it’s hard to be so celebratory when the top 30 still shows a different story. PS software are still struggling to even get a third of the top 30 software charts.

PS5 needs compelling software for the Japanese audience to really turn the narrative around in Japan. Sure they’re more focused on the West, but the Switch shows that you can succeed in both Asia AND the rest of the world.

If Japanese developers (and that’s a BIG if) are able to bring more big budget software for the Switch successor, then the PS5 may have a hard time matching, or even surpassing, the PS4’s LTD hardware and software sales.