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Forums - Sales Discussion - Famitsu Sales: Week 12, 2023 (Mar 13 - Mar 19)

Zippy6 on 23 March 2023
Bofferbrauer2 said:
Zippy6 said:

It's accurate. For the first 44 weeks of 2022 PS4 only sold a total of 722 units, and then during the last 3 months sold 22k more.

It seems there was no PS4 stock but Sony began shipping small quantities of PS4's again to Japan starting with the holiday quarter of 2022.  That's the only explanation I can come up with.

Kind of lines up with the reports Sony was planning on axing ps4 production at the end of 2021, but then in January 2022 we got reports they were going to produce another 1 million PS4's. Sony Tackles PlayStation 5 Shortage by Making More PS4 Consoles - Bloomberg

Though was a long wait between that report and supply appearing in Japan.

Either that, or Famitsu overestimated sales and did this to rectify the numbers.

As for wanting to produce another million consoles, I think Sony doesn't want the PS4 to be beaten by the Gameboy in total sales ^^

Well they stopped reporting PS4 shipments already so just like the PS2 we'll probably never know for definite the exact total. Might beat GB might not.



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UnderwaterFunktown on 23 March 2023

PS5 running out of gas a bit earlier than I expected, but not shocking it's happening in Japan first. In the rest of the world I imagine its streak will continue much longer.



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Qwark on 23 March 2023

PS5 2023 has a 30 week lead on PS5 2022. It should be able to beat the 1.6 milion mark at least even if falls back to 2022 level of sales. With RE 4 remake and Atelier Ryza 3 launching next week and FFXVI launching this year, it should hit 2 million.



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Slownenberg on 23 March 2023

PS5's demand now starting to get saturated after all those really high weeks? Wonder if it'll settle back to the 10k-20k range in a few weeks.

Switch looking quite weak but back on top. Nintendo definitely needs to do a price drop this year, and soon, if they want HW sales to continue well into next year. Switch should be dropped to $170/$250/$300 if they want it to keep selling well. Also time to introduce the Nintendo Selects $30 price tag for lots of first party games to further entice people who have held off to get a Switch. I think the market for Switch at $300/$350 is finally starting to get saturated. But with a price cut this year and next year they could keep selling well, as long as they've got a few more big games coming over the next 12-18 months.



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Chicho on 23 March 2023

Funny how all hardware is down week over week exept the 3DS,



Doctor_MG on 23 March 2023
Slownenberg said:

PS5's demand now starting to get saturated after all those really high weeks? Wonder if it'll settle back to the 10k-20k range in a few weeks.

Switch looking quite weak but back on top. Nintendo definitely needs to do a price drop this year, and soon, if they want HW sales to continue well into next year. Switch should be dropped to $170/$250/$300 if they want it to keep selling well. Also time to introduce the Nintendo Selects $30 price tag for lots of first party games to further entice people who have held off to get a Switch. I think the market for Switch at $300/$350 is finally starting to get saturated. But with a price cut this year and next year they could keep selling well, as long as they've got a few more big games coming over the next 12-18 months.

At a certain point it is a question of "why". Is the goal for Nintendo to hit a certain amount of consoles sold? Kind of, but only if they can do it sustainably with good profit margins. 

Also, Nintendo has been relying less on price drops than they have in the past. The 3DS and Wii U only received one price drop, and both were done within a year of launch due to struggling sales out the gate. Afterwards the 3DS merely received model revisions (e.g. 2DS and new 2DS XL). 

Not saying it can't happen, but I feel like Nintendo might have something else planned outside of a simple price drop. 



Norion on 23 March 2023

Actually insane that 2022 PS5 doesn't reach the current YTD until week 43.



curl-6 on 23 March 2023

Slow week all around.
Pent up demand for PS5 is settling now it's been freely available for a while, and Switch doesn't have any major titles coming out until Zelda.



znake on 23 March 2023

People saying Switch sales are weak lmao
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