Famitsu Sales: Week 31, 2023 (Jul 24 - Jul 30)

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Slownenberg said:

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As for PS5 I still don't get whats going on this year. Not sure why it's so popular in Japan this year unless its a lot of people exporting out of Japan. I'd have expected to go back under 20k by now. But good for Sony for apparently keeping their gaming brand alive in Japan after generations of gradual descent.

It is a lot of people importing from Japan like it has been since the beginning. The PS5's physical software sales are just too low all around to suggest otherwise, even when factoring in very high digital sales.

Regardless of the good hardware sales for the PS5 on the surface level, it's not that great of a result. The PS handheld line got axed, so the brand as a whole is still in decline. Plus it's still unclear what the future holds, because the PS4 used to track above the PS3 for a long time too, only to end up selling less in the end. Nowadays there aren't all that many Japan-relevant software titles left that are still exclusive to PS.