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

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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.

If we look at the sales of the first 4 years of the PS4 and PS4 in Japan we don't see that much of a difference. The PS4 had the Wii U as competition those years and the PS5 had the Switch. The sales are pretty much equal launch aligned, even though the Switch sold much more units in those years. So I would say there isn't that much of an impact.

If Switch 2 flops for some reason it probably won't make PS6 sell any better in Japan.