| curl-6 said: It's still quite interesting that the Series was able to sell like x6 more than the Xbone in Japan, while declining basically everywhere else in the world. |
Some of those Xbox Series sales (just like PS5) came from scalpers reselling overseas. Now even with that I still think at least 400k remained in Japan. I think what made the Xbox Series appealing are 2 things:
1: Japanese publishers were now releasing everything on PS and Xbox, so a lot of franchises that used to be PS only are now on Xbox. The biggest games on PS in Japan are 3rd Party, not 1st Party as the only 1st Party PS game that even gained a lot of traction in the PS4 generation was Ghost of Tsushima.
2: I think backwards compatibility played a role as well where a lot of older games cannot be played on a modern PS console, but Xbox has them, such as FF13 Trilogy, Nier, Star Ocean Last Hope, etc.
I find it quite interesting that Xbox improved over the Xbox One in Japan, yet PlayStation is the opposite where it looks like the PS5 will sell less than the PS4. Nintendo and PC honestly just took over.
