Famitsu Sales: Week 14, 2026 (Mar 30 - Apr 05)

[Otter]

PAOerfulone said:

Man, that Japan only model is the only thing keeping PS5 afloat over there.

Without it, it'd probably be selling sub-5k and dangerously close the Xbox levels. Holy Hell, Sony REALLY dropped the ball over there. That's what happens when you give the Japanese audience the shaft in favor of the Western audience for nearly 2 decades.

Especially while Nintendo doubled down on the Japanese audience and now, they rule the market with an iron fist. They damn near run a monopoly over there.

I also don't think this can apply beyond the PS5? 

The PS4 had over 5 titles released by Japan studios Bloodborne, Gravity Rush 2, The Last Guardian, Knack 1 and 2, Astrobot Rescue Mission, Shadow of the Collosus remake... They just weren't commercial big outside of Bloodborne.

You can maybe argue the PS3 but only on the basis on the initial hardware price (but that was globally an issue), output wise it was even higher than the PS4. All the meanwhile Playstation were having huge success with the PSP in Japan. The notion that Sony actively gave the market the middle finger doesn't add up until we get to the PS5 where they deprioritised stock for the first year and gave up on their japanese studios instead of repurposing them but again the japanese studios had nothing to do with their success in Japan.

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