Zippy6 said:
If they're selling then they're selling. As far as Sony is concerned it doesn't matter. But I believe the speculation is that a large amount are ending up on the grey market in China because they don't want Chinese PS5's so shipping more to China isn't going to do anything. At the end of the day it's just speculation how much is being exported. The last time we had any official indication of how the PS5 is doing in Japan is May 2022 when it was the 3rd biggest country for the PS5 by "Active Consoles", not sales in that country this is consoles being actively used in that country so any units exported would not be counted.
Hopefully we get this again this May so we can see if Japan has remained third or not. But we know UK sales were greater than Japan and Germany sales were less than Japan so any exporting taking place is not large enough to make the active users ranking different to the console sales ranking. Unfortunately we don't have exact sales numbers for Germany but as of March 2022 it was somewhere over 1 million, Famitsu has Japan at just under 1.5m for that date and we know the UK was ahead of Japan in terms of sales when it hit 2m later in 2022. Basically the number of consoles being exported from Japan isn't as high as some would have you believe, and the real answer is we have no idea how many are being exported but it's not enough to stop Japan being the 3rd most popular country for the PS5 at a time when Japan had just got shafted over the holidays with abysmal stock in comparison to western countries. |
Are you sure these numbers (1m sold by march 2022) aren't referencing German speaking countries versus the singular country. "[Ps5] has totalled sales of over one million units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland: the financial reports of Sony Interactive Entertainment Deutschland reveal it" Considering neither Switzerland or Austria are in the chart active user chart listed, yet Spain is with its abysmal sales, It's safe to say those other german speaking regions haven't sold 1m each and it was a collective figure.
"During the launch period, PlayStation 5 sold 490,000 units in German-speaking countries, after which in the following seven months it proceeded with approximately 80,000 pieces per month and a total of an additional 556,000 units.
In October 2021, the total number of PS5s sold between Germany, Austria and Switzerland was therefore exactly equal to 1,046,000 consoles : slightly higher results than PS4, but considered by Sony to be below expectations due to the aforementioned limited stocks."
Last edited by Otter - on 29 April 2023
