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Forums - Sales Discussion - Famitsu Sales: Week 12, 2025 (Mar 17 - Mar 23)

Norion 3 days ago
Sephiran said:
Norion said:

When launch aligned that's the case but the PS4 was at just under 6.53m as of March 24th 2018 since it launched three months later in Japan so that way the PS5 is still about 230k ahead. It should still fall behind within the next 6-12 months though so will need a 2028 release for the PS6 to outsell it.

Official numbers don't tell the full story. Its obvious that Japanese PS5 has been exported to countries like China for years at this point. Meaning that the real figure of PS5 user base is lower than the official amount of sold consoles in Japan. Which explains why every franchise is in steep decline looking at PS5 software sales in Japan compared to the PS4. The Japanese PS5 user base is simply just a lot smaller than the PS4 user base was.

That sounds about right yeah. It would be nice if there was a way to know the percentage exported for each console since a best selling console list that removes exported ones would be interesting to see.