Famitsu Sales: Week 7, 2023 (06 Feb - 12 Feb)

[Bofferbrauer2]

Farsala said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

That's hard to guesstimate, but I think somewhere between 30k and 55k this week are shipped outside of Japan, mainly to China. How much exactly is hard to pinpoint without additional datasets.

30k to 55k is around 30-60% of sales this week.

Do you think the same applies to lifetime sales?

For lifetime sales, I expect way over 50% to have been shipped to other countries like China. Historically it 's probably more like 60%-80%.

PS5 is gaining steam in Japan the last couple months, so I expect the amount of consoles shipped overseas from Japan to be getting lower over time. But as long as China allows this kind of parallel import of the console, It will never fully go away.

It's also not just the PS5 that is affected, also the XS and Switch. But their numbers are much lower compared to the PS5, as Switch users don't miss out that much in China and the Xbox isn't exactly popular over there in China, either.