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Sorry, but let’s be honest here. They may be happy with hardware sales, but if everything was rainbows and unicorns they would disclosed the softwares shipments of PS4 and PS5 separately, but they lumped them together, thanks for the transparency.

So my statement is still relevant: we should ask ourselves, what’s even their strategy at this point ?

We will know for sure in February.

Their strategy seems to be

"People will wait to buy a ps5 in japan"

It will be interesting to see if the Japanese Market are really that patent with Sony or if they will just eventually give up

Nintendo better make sure they give the same amount of love to japan with their next gen system, or things could become very awkward very quickly

Playstation (4+5) at less than 1% marketshare, yikes.

PS5 sales now trending behind PS4.

Kuro no Kiseki will have started development 2 or so years ago. We'll see the results of this turn around in 2023 when they'll for the first time publish a game on the Switch themselves. Better late than never I guess. At least the successor to the Switch will probably get supported from the start.

That chart is crazy. PS5 is having an anti-holiday. Instead of sales shooting up they've completely flatlined just for the holidays.

I mean I guess it makes sense Sony knows they are weak in Japan so they are just choosing to send all their stock to America and Europe since stock is limited. Still just crazy to see a system sales flatline for the holidays.

Top 30: Famitsu software sales (12/6/21 - 12/12/21) - Top 30 - Nintendo Everything

1. [NSW] Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl – 130,772 / 2,046,040
2. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 53,824 / 459,001
3. [NSW] Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain – 33,092 / 70,020
4. [NSW] Minecraft – 26,256 / 2,336,145
5. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 23,786 / 7,010,861
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 21,819 / 4,191,268
7. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 20,364 / 4,552,841
8. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 14,709 / 2,448,283
9. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 13,765 / 2,956,485
10. [NSW] Pokemon Sword/Shield – 12,825 / 4,227,847

11. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – 9,281 / 941,162
12. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 7,082 / 844,288
13. [NSW] Disney Magical World 2: Enchanted Edition – 6,937 / 20,285
14. [NSW] Eiga Sumikko Gurashi: Aoi Tsukiyo no Mahou no Ko – Game de Asobo! – 6,364 / 14,581
15. [NSW] Minecraft Dungeons Ultimate Edition – 5,683 / 18,286
16. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 – 5,390 / 1,155,240
17. [NSW] Fortnite Minty Legends Pack – 4,911 / 30,299
18. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! – 4,888 / 652,329
19. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 4,635 / 24,391
20. [NSW] Fishing Spirits: Nintendo Switch Version – 4,291 / 640,087
21. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 4,288 / 3,977,241
22. [NSW] Game Builder Garage – 4,204 / 261,211
23. [NSW] WarioWare: Get It Together! – 4,132 / 174,192
24. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey – 4,091 / 2,285,091
25. [NSW] Shin Megami Tensei V – 3,970 / 184,388
26. [NSW] New Pokemon Snap – 3,957 / 302,710
27. [NSW] Super Mario Party – 3,857 / 2,022,352
28. [NSW] The Battle Cats Unite! – 3,762 / 86,017
29. [NSW] FIFA 22 Legacy Edition – 3,679 / 40,643
30. [NSW] Miitopia – 3,589 / 264,015

NS - 30/30

Everything else - 0

Another 30/30 for the Switch. That’s pretty insane. Even FIFA 22 on Switch got in over FIFA 22 on PS4/5. Considering the lowest ranking (Miitopia) sold 3.5K, you’d think some PS4/5 title would’ve sold enough to get in regardless. But nope..

Now you wonder if there would’ve been a PS4/5 title if the ranking expanded to 40.

Can't sell what people don't want

It has a shot at the all-time longest streak too.

I think one of the handheld Animal Crossing games is still ahead of it.

Animal Crossing is estimated to be around 9.8 million now including digital.  It would need to get over 10.2 million to challenge Pokémon Green, Red, Blue, Yellow on the gameboy, but it has a shot.