| Sephiran said: True, but percentage wise of total sales, PS5 has been more impacted by exports in Japan. Which is why the official user base of PS5 bears almost no correlation with the software sales we see from PS5 in Japan. Nintendo has had games that have sold between 8-12M on Switch 1 in Japan, which shows that they had a gigantic install base there even though official numbers are somewhat inflated by exports, but PS5 software sales in Japan points to it being considerably lower than over 7M install base in Japan which are the official numbers. |
We need a Japan shipment figure of ps5 to guess that.
I think famitsu doesn't indicate the export extent by much.
Remember, going by the data ns should have 1m+ on the shelves, instead it was nearly out of stock.
Famitsu not tracking sales through Amazon jp, might be the answer.
From where else someone or a shop abroad can import the console?
Your version about hw sw sales being incongruous is valid, albeit do we know the digital sales? Maybe Japanese ps gamers have gone fully digital (sadly).
