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

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IcaroRibeiro said:

Sephiran said:

That is a massive competitive advantage for Nintendo that they can sell good numbers in all 3 major console markets. It basically means Sony has to outsell Nintendo enormously over many years in Europe to have their console sell more than Nintendo's in the future. For example Switch 2 could sell 15-20M in Europe and still reach 80M+ worldwide sales, due to how big their sales potential is in the US, Japan etc, while for Sony such a sales performance in Europe would spell disaster due to their heavy dependancy on the US and EU market.

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

It's not just the PS5, RoW has been growing in general in terms of sales percentage. Sony has been doing really well in RoW since the PS2, which has been a strong point for them since then. No other console had been coming close to their success in RoW until the Switch came along. The DS only selling 11M in RoW compared to the PS2's almonst 28M is why the DS sold less Worldwide, after all.

Switch is actually an extreme case, as it sold close to the total of DS, Wii and 3DS in RoW, consoles that taken together sold more than twice as many consoles as the Switch did Worldwide, but in RoW they're an even match.

And it looks like the Switch 2 could outdo this, as it's currently selling better in RoW than in Europe and it's only slightly behind Japan and not far from North America