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

[archbrix]

Norion said:

archbrix said:

So much for price being the issue for the PS5...

It’s like I’ve been saying for a while now. There are were three problems with the PS5 in Japan: The high price, the lack of exclusive games that appeal to the region and form factor. But as we’re seeing here, lowering the price on something with two much bigger issues can only do so much.

You should really wait more than one poor week and ideally at least somewhat into 2026 before saying something like this since how its baseline next year will compare to this year is up in the air. As I said above its sales this week would've probably been nearly half this without the big price cut.

We don't have to wait until into next year to know that the higher price was never the biggest issue for the PS5 in Japan.