Famitsu sales: Week 38, 2021 - (13th Sept

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thismeintiel on 24 September 2021

The_Liquid_Laser said:

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It's hilarious to see people talk about the Wii U being ahead of the PS5 currently, yet conveniently forget that the Wii U was heavily front loaded and completely collapsed later on,

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That sounds a lot like the PS5 to me.

Not sure how you come to that conclusion. Out of curiosity what's your lifetime sales prediction?

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Slownenberg on 24 September 2021

Damn Switch hardware really being hammered in the lead up to the OLED launch. Hopefully this means huge launch week for OLED to push Switch back above last year's YTD numbers.

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thismeintiel said:

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Like, all of your argument stands on the PS4 (important to make this clear) still being around. That's all the current support right now stands on. What is going to happen when the PS4 is dropped in 1 or 2 years? You honestly believe studios want to keep losing money with a system that is doing worse that the WiiU in Japan?

Worse than Wii U, huh? So is it your prediction that the PS5 is going to do less than 3.3M in Japan?

It's hilarious to see people talk about the Wii U being ahead of the PS5 currently, yet conveniently forget that the Wii U was heavily front loaded and completely collapsed later on, while the PS5 is constantly closing the gap and will most likely sell 2.5x-3x more than the Wii U. It is currently outpacing the PS4.

Japan has been moving away from dedicated home console HW for decades, now. There's really no point in acting like the PS5's performance comes as a big shock and PS is in trouble. Even the mighty Wii sold only 12.77M in Japan. Japanese devs are going to continue to support PS because their games are selling. I mean even if you wish to pretend the digital ratio is lower than everywhere else in the world and Japanese people are just buying PS5s for them as art pieces, those games are selling elsewhere in the world.

The software sales of the Wii U were several times better than the PS5's.

Games that are selling the most in Japan are only going to make losses on the PS5.

Many PS5s are being shipped outside of Japan and sold for a profit.

I personally expect the PS5 to sell around 7 million units in Japan in the end.

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The_Liquid_Laser on 24 September 2021

thismeintiel said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

That sounds a lot like the PS5 to me.

Not sure how you come to that conclusion. Out of curiosity what's your lifetime sales prediction?

Not sure how you didn't come to this conclusion.

PS5 lifetime sales in Japan will be 3-5m, depending on which platforms get a few key titles like DQ and Monster Hunter. What is your lifetime sales prediction?

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Megiddo on 24 September 2021

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Not sure how you didn't come to this conclusion.

PS5 lifetime sales in Japan will be 3-5m, depending on which platforms get a few key titles like DQ and Monster Hunter. What is your lifetime sales prediction?

Can you clarify if you mean that you think 3-5 million PS5s will be bought in Japan and stay in Japan or if you think that the total amount of PS5s sold in Japan regardless of them being exported out of the country will still be 3-5 million? The first is plausible. The second is a hilarious misunderstanding of the current economic situation given the weak Japanese yen and the enormous demand for the PS5 in China as well as Indonesia, The Philippines, and other Southeast Asian countries.