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Forums - Sales Discussion - Famitsu Sales: Week 18+19, 2023 (Apr 24 - May 07)

siebensus4 on 12 May 2023
Norion said:

I didn't think that would be enough to reach 200k though I just remembered the Mario film came out this period over there so maybe that contributed a bit as well.

216k is for 2 weeks, because Famitsu released no numbers for the previous week.



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Zippy6 on 12 May 2023
Pinkie_pie said:

That's really bad PS5 numbers. Let's just hope it's stock issue and it can pick up again to 80-90k weekly

Your expectations are unrealistic. This is currently PlayStation's best opening to a year since 2003. These "really bad" numbers are the two weeks that just pushed it ahead of PS2's 2005. PS4's best week 18+19 was 54k...

In it's peak year the PS2 was averaging 61k weekly in the summer quarter. 80-90k consistently was never on the table.



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padib on 12 May 2023
kenjab said:

Milestones!

Switch crosses 29M sold
Pokemon Scarlet/Violet crosses 5M sold at retail
Splatoon 3 crosses 4M sold at retail

kenjab Why are weeks 18 and 19 HW figures combined this year and last?



DroidKnight on 12 May 2023
padib said:

kenjab Why are weeks 18 and 19 HW figures combined this year and last?

I'm not kenjab, but I think this is why.



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Kakadu18 on 12 May 2023
padib said:
kenjab said:

Milestones!

Switch crosses 29M sold
Pokemon Scarlet/Violet crosses 5M sold at retail
Splatoon 3 crosses 4M sold at retail

kenjab Why are weeks 18 and 19 HW figures combined this year and last?

Because they were on holiday.



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Norion on 13 May 2023
siebensus4 said:
Norion said:

I didn't think that would be enough to reach 200k though I just remembered the Mario film came out this period over there so maybe that contributed a bit as well.

216k is for 2 weeks, because Famitsu released no numbers for the previous week.

I know, I didn't expect the two weeks combined to get that high is what I meant.



znake on 13 May 2023

Nintendo destroying Sony in Japan



padib on 13 May 2023
DroidKnight said:
padib said:

kenjab Why are weeks 18 and 19 HW figures combined this year and last?

I'm not kenjab, but I think this is why.

Kakadu18 said:
padib said:

kenjab Why are weeks 18 and 19 HW figures combined this year and last?

Because they were on holiday.

Makes sense, thanks



Rab on 13 May 2023

PS5 software though, this is a continuing theme :/



kazuyamishima on 13 May 2023

The Zelda OLED doing some heavy lifting for the System, curious to see what the sales will be in the upcoming weeks.

It's a really very interesting subject about high PS5 HW sales but low SW sales, but in reality, the system already surpassed 2021 sales and in about two weeks, it will surpass 2022 sales without FFXVI and Armored Core 6, CRAZY!