Famitsu sales Week 52, 2024 - Week 1, 2025 (23/12/24 - 5/1/25)

[Darc Requiem]

Pinkie_pie said:

Darc Requiem said:

This forum is for a video games sales site. You should know how these things works. When a company has great sales they brag about them. When their sales are underwhelming they don't mention them and/or make it difficult to determine. When Xbox One sales tanked, Microsoft stopped reporting them. When the PS3 was doing poorly, Sony grouped PS2 and PS3 sales together to mask how the console was truly selling. Sony wouldn't stay silent while Nintendo has 85+% dominance of the weekly Japanese software sales charts if they had numbers to show otherwise. As for the bolded text, this is Japanese sales thread. Complaining about Japan being the focus of this thread's discoussion is asinine. This isn't the "Weekly Global Sales Thread". It's a Famitsu Sales Thread. Japanese sales are literally the focus of the thread's discussion.

Thing is it's not even that bad. Sony consoles been consistently selling like this in Japan for 20 years or so but we getting doom and gloom every week from Nintendo fans

And their software consistently sold better over that time frame and that's were Sony makes their money, not hardware. Nintendo is the only hardware manufacturer that makes a significant profit on hardware. Sony and MS lose money on hardware in the hopes that software sales make up for it. "Nintendo fans" aren't the issue. Sony's business decisions are. They've, for all intents and purposes, abandoned their home market. Because of that gamers,their software library, Japanese software sales have suffered for it. Playstation used be more than big budget "tent pole" Western focuseed games. Sony had software variety. Games like Astrobot weren't so few and far between. Sony is fortunate that the leadership of Don Mattrick and Phil Spencer has been brand killing. Jim Ryan's D+ leadership only was successful because Phil Spencer's was comparatively scoring an F-.