Famitsu Sales: Week 44, 2025 (Oct 27 - Nov 02)

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Sephiran said:

I wonder how many PS5 systems officially sold in Japan that were then exported to other markets, given that the main reason why Sony increased the price of the PS5 in Japan was to combat those exports.

Does the PS5 in reality "only" have a 4-5M user base in Japan? Because i don't think a shift to digital sales alone can explain the huge difference between PS5 software sales in Japan compared to PS4, it would be logical if the user base is considerably smaller in reality as well.

I mean on current trends Switch 2's top five best selling games will already pretty much surpass PS5 top five best selling games on the Famitsu charts during this holiday period. That should be impossible if the PS5 really would have a 7M+ active user base in Japan.

The PS5 userbase isn't as big as it appears on paper but you're also just talking about attach rate here. Even at Sonys peak (PS2) you were rarely getting games with an attach rate more than 10%. Nintendo meanwhile would have many games in 20-50% range per generation and in the case of MKW 90% lol

The best selling PS2 title in Japan was 3.5m, Mario Kart World will pass it next year despite having a much smaller userbase.