Famitsu Sales: Week 49, 2025 (Dec 1 - Dec 7)

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IcaroRibeiro said:

Sony is extremely strong in Asia outside Japan

PS4 sold 23 million ROW and PS5 will likely surpass that as well 

Last month literally 30% of its total hardware sales (VGC bumbers) were from ROW

Sony only weak market is Japan, but their rumored new handheld should fix this and make them to sell on 15 million range again 

At what cost though?

I keep hearing these rumors about Sony releasing a new handheld and I just think “…Really?”

Remember the Vita? There’s a reason Sony stopped making handhelds in the first place. They saw the growing mobile elephant in the room, the difference was they didn’t (and still don’t) have the IPs to still compete, sell well, or even thrive despite mobile like Nintendo does.

And they also stopped making handhelds for the same reason Nintendo stopped making two separate systems - It became too costly and demanding in resources for them to support two separate systems when their development resources were spread so thin and one system clearly wasn’t pulling its weight.

And unless Sony seriously puts effort, emphasis, costs, and resources into doing so, they’re going to run into the same problem again.