How can anyone look at this and have any confidence in the PS brand in Japan. How are developers going to cope as the PS4 goes away next year and the PS5, which is a dud, is their only option?
| OTBWY said: How can anyone look at this and have any confidence in the PS brand in Japan. How are developers going to cope as the PS4 goes away next year and the PS5, which is a dud, is their only option? |
This would only be a problem for developers who only sell games in Japan. Didn't we hear about Capcom wanting to push the Monster Hunter Series more in the west when they were developing Monster Hunter World? Result? Their best selling game ever. Aiming for highest global sales is what every hardware and software manufacturer should do.
Regardless I think it's a bit premature to call the PS5 a dud in Japan. It was ahead of PS4 launch aligned until a couple of weeks ago. Clearly stock is being prioritised elsewhere. I'll wait a bit longer before calling it a dud. What will decide if it's a dud is demand, and what is shown here in sales is supply.
Japanese developers have nothing to worry about.
Switch is pretty much the only serious platform in the region at this point, ACNH is also nearing that 7m retail.
Dulfite said:
Were there not stock issues this time last year, as well? If there were, then that argument about 2021 would have beat 2020 may not be accurate. Covid started late 2019 in Asia and was in full force globally by like March/April 2020, so production everyone was decreasing rapidly around then. Without Covid, there would have been a lot more Switch's manufactured in 2020 and 2021, so we can't assume 2021 would be better if not for shortages since the same logic could be applied to 2020. |
You're missing the point, when 2021 started we already knew about stock issues in 2020. People wouldn't have bet that 2021 would beat 2020 if 2020 had better stock and sold 7 million.
| RolStoppable said: 2021 needed a clear win this week, but that didn't happen. So now it requires three 300k+ weeks just to have a chance at topping 2020, but that's completely unrealistic. What is still realistic is a final figure of 5.8m+ for the year. The recent press releases for the European market confirm that Europe has received bigger Switch shipments this year than last year, so it's Japan that suffers a bit when global shipments remain roughly flat during the comparable period. It's not much, but it's enough to decide Japan's 2020 vs. 2021 battle early. So... ...in the bigger picture, ending a year on a supply-constrained note is a positive for the year that follows, because sales get shifted to a later date. While a decline in hardware sales is expected for 2022 due to Switch's age and Japan being the country closest to its saturation point, we could see another 5m+ year for Switch regardless.
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Europe is up in November? well hopefully this continues in December and in North America as well. This is good news and gives me hope that NSW can beat the NDS' 11.89m record Q3, i think there is a chance. NSW already took one of NDS' records when it shipped 6.86m in Q2 last year beating out 6.79m by NDS, could it snatch another? This is positive news and would be a good recovery after the "below par" Q2 hardware sales and would make that 24m fiscal year forecast extremely likely.
Total Nintendomination. Japan is practically a single system market at this point.
At this rate PS5 will soon be trending behind PS4.
Last edited by curl-6 - on 10 December 2021
S.Peelman said:
Which means I get to put out this image again because a mere Pac-Man isn't good enough. This is the mass of the sun compared to everything else in the Solar System, kind of the distribution of the Switch against the rest in the hardware space.
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LOL, before I read the labels, I actually thought this was a chart of hardware sales for this week.
curl-6 bet me that PS5 + X|S sales would reach 56m before year end 2023 and he was right.
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Top 30. Here you can see a rare case of 0-20% sellthrough.
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No PS5 games.
Top 30: Famitsu software sales (11/29/21 - 12/5/21) - Top 30 - Nintendo Everything
1. [NSW] Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl – 164,580 / 1,915,268
2. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 40,668 / 405,177
3. [NSW] Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain – 36,928 / NEW
4. [NSW] Animal Crossin: New Horizon – 18,640 / 6,987,075
5. [NSW] Minecraft – 18,308 / 2,309,889
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 16,160 / 4,169,449
7. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 14,728 / 4,532,477
8. [NSW] Disney Magical World 2: Enchanted Edition – 13,348 / NEW
9. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 9,387 / 2,942,720
10. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield – 8,998 / 4,215,022
11. [NSW] Eiga Sumikko Gurashi: Aoi Tsukiyo no Mahou no Ko – Game de Asobo! – 8,217 / NEW
12. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 6,832 / 2,433,574
13. [NSW] Power Pro Kun Pocket R – 6,743 / 30,103
14. [NSW] Shin Megami Tensei V – 5,182 / 180,418
15. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – 5,112 / 931,881
16. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 4,725 / 837,206
17. [NSW] Splatoon 2 + Octo Expansion – 3,314 / 19,756
18. [NSW] Fortnite Minty Legends Pack – 3,303 / 25,388
19. [PS4] Battlefield 2042 – 3,147 / 35,375
20. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 3,134 / 3,972,953
21. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 – 3,107 / 1,149,850
22. [PS4] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles – 2,963 / 136,617
23. [NSW] Minecraft Dungeons Ultimate Edition – 2,804 / 12,603
24. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! – 2,759 / 647,441
25. [NSW] Super Mario Party – 2,591 / 2,018,495
26. [NSW] WarioWare: Get It Together! – 2,582 / 170,060
27. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild + Expansion Pass – 2,498 / 19,430
28. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 2,475 / 1,898,592
29. [NSW] Game Builder Garage – 2,424 / 257,007
30. [PS4] Call of Duty: Vanguard – 2,423 / 51,166
NS - 27
PS4 - 3
Last edited by curl-6 - on 09 December 2021
| Kakadu18 said: https://s.famitsu.com/ranking/game-sales/ No PS5 games. |
the 6/6 bar is the same color as the 5/5. Same shade of green.
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