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

[Norion]

archbrix said:

Norion said:

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.

If form factor is included then yeah that's clearly the biggest thing holding Playstation consoles back there but after that price has obviously been the biggest reason for its awful sales there since September 2024. It collapsing in sales immediately after a significant price increase makes that abundantly clear. If that didn't happen its sales this year would've been a lot higher.

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