Famitsu Sales: Week 16,2025 (Apr 14 - Apr 20)

[Sephiran]

Otter said:

Sephiran said:

This is evidently false. Nintendo have never sold more hardware and software in Japan than they have during the past 8 years. Just because PS sell less than previously in Japan doesn't mean it isn't a big gaming market. Even PC gaming is bigger now in Japan than ever before. The only thing that has declined the past 10 years in Japan is PS hardware and software sales.

Nintendo is also incredibly popular in the US, and Nintendo is incredibly competitive in the US market, just look at Nintendo hardware and software sales in the US for decades at this point.

I don't think we actually have data to say this but I'd love to see it. As hardware evolves, I think the key indicator of market health is software. 

But we do know its evidently false from a lot of figures. You can't sell more hardware in a declining market for one. When it comes to software, Nintendo first party games have sold more in Japan during the Switch era. What is true is that many third party games are selling less in Japan, from smaller Nihon Falcom games to bigger Square Enix games. But for Nintendo itself, Japan has not been a declining market at all. But for Japanese third parties and Sony, they are selling less in Japan than ever before, but Nintendo games has bucked that trend totally, and saw record breaking sales for pretty much all their major franchises in the Japanese market.