Sony and Nintendo are in competition. But are they really?

[IcaroRibeiro]

padib said:

BraLoD said:

Playstation sales in Japan have been in decline for a long time, despite the PS4 worldwide success and it selling 30M more units than the PS3, the PS4 still sold less than the PS3 there. Despite the Switch completely dominating the physical games charts, the PS5 was not far behind the PS4 there, and the PS5 is now decling heavily because Sony is giving Japan the middle finger, raising prices and not having many exclusives that appeal for that market.

Had Nintendo not been in Japan, would the PS5 and games sold more?

That's your lead.

It wouldn't, at least not to a significant degree 

The easy way to check is software sales. The majority games Japanese people are interested are not on PS5

Same way of why Wii U sales tanking did not helped PS4 on its slightest either in Japan or elsewhere 

In other time-line, one where Nintendo was kicked out of gaming market after Game Cube, we could make an argument for Sony never losing its grip on Japanese Market 

However the existence of Nintendo devices and Nintendo games are responsible for a shift in Japanese Market tastes and habits, including the habit of playing portable. A significant amount of Switch userbase comes from 3DS players, those would never buy a PS5 in first place because a PS5 do not satisfy their gaming demands 

This of course doesn't mean Nintendo and Sony are not in competition, they absolutely are. But two things can be competition in different degrees. You will see a significant bigger correlation between PC adoption in Japan increasing while Sony brand gets weaker