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IcaroRibeiro on 06 November 2025
Sephiran said:

I wonder how many PS5 systems officially sold in Japan that were then exported to other markets, given that the main reason why Sony increased the price of the PS5 in Japan was to combat those exports.

Does the PS5 in reality "only" have a 4-5M user base in Japan? Because i don't think a shift to digital sales alone can explain the huge difference between PS5 software sales in Japan compared to PS4, it would be logical if the user base is considerably smaller in reality as well.

I mean on current trends Switch 2's top five best selling games will already pretty much surpass PS5 top five best selling games on the Famitsu charts during this holiday period. That should be impossible if the PS5 really would have a 7M+ active user base in Japan.

PS5 is probably sub 5M, and Series XS is probably sub 300k in Japan



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Otter on 06 November 2025
Sephiran said:

I wonder how many PS5 systems officially sold in Japan that were then exported to other markets, given that the main reason why Sony increased the price of the PS5 in Japan was to combat those exports.

Does the PS5 in reality "only" have a 4-5M user base in Japan? Because i don't think a shift to digital sales alone can explain the huge difference between PS5 software sales in Japan compared to PS4, it would be logical if the user base is considerably smaller in reality as well.

I mean on current trends Switch 2's top five best selling games will already pretty much surpass PS5 top five best selling games on the Famitsu charts during this holiday period. That should be impossible if the PS5 really would have a 7M+ active user base in Japan.

The PS5 userbase isn't as big as it appears on paper but you're also just talking about attach rate here. Even at Sonys peak (PS2) you were rarely getting games with an attach rate more than 10%. Nintendo meanwhile would have many games in 20-50% range per generation and in the case of MKW 90% lol

The best selling PS2 title in Japan was 3.5m, Mario Kart World will pass it next year despite having a much smaller userbase.



Norion on 06 November 2025

Good week for the Switch 2 and just a little bit to go till it has a very week several week stretch. It already having weeks with nearly half of the top 10 software being its games is a strong sign. The PS5 dropping back under 8k this late in the year on the other hand is a bad sign so that decent stretch it was on starting week 36 seems to be over now. Also the Switch 1 version of DQ 1-2 being over 50% of sales shows just how relevant that platform will continue being for software sales for a while.

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curl-6 on 06 November 2025

Switch 1 up week on week yet again, damn thing just refuses to die.

PS5 desperately needs a price drop, but sadly it seems those are a thing of the past.



Salnax on 06 November 2025

Squenix Modern JRPG FW Comparison

  • Dragon Quest XI (3DS+PS4) - 2,080,806
  • Dragon Quest VII (3DS) - 836,654
  • Dragon Quest III (Combined) - 821,770
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS4) - 702,853
  • Kingdom Hearts III (PS4) - 640,406
  • Dragon Quest I & II (Combined) - 413,518
  • Super Mario RPG (NS) - 301,334
  • Final Fantasy XVI (PS5) - 336,027
  • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (PS5) - 262,656
  • Octopath Traveller (NS) - 193,780
  • Persona 3 Reload (PS4+PS5) - 116,392
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (NS) - 115,649
  • Bravely Default 2 (NS) - 93,061
  • Triangle Strategy (NS) - 86,298
  • Final Fantasy Tactics: Ivalice Chronicles (Combined) - 81,901
  • Octopath Traveller 2 (Combined) - 75,686
  • Live a Live (NS) - 71,137
  • Star Ocean: The Second Story R (Combined) - 50,577
  • Tales of Graces f Remastered (NS+PS5) - 41,370

I included a variety of projects because there are relatively few good comparisons to a compilation of HD NES JRPG remakes. In general, although DQ I&II didn't do great by Dragon Quest standards, it did well by standards of JRPG remakes/reimaginings.



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curl-6 on 06 November 2025

Top 30: https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-software-sales-10-27-25-11-2-25-top-30/

1. [NSW] Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake – 232,250 / NEW
2. [PS5] Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake – 96,812 / NEW
3. [NS2] Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake – 84,456 / NEW
4. [NSW] Pokemon Legends: Z-A – 82,812 / 1,150,583
5. [NS2] Mario Kart World – 50,845 / 2,017,414
6. [NS2] Pokemon Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition – 35,926 / 720,822
7. [NSW] Tales of Xillia Remastered – 10,370 / NEW
8. [NS2] Donkey Kong Bananza – 8,227 / 362,762
9. [PS5] Tales of Xillia Remastered – 7,290 / NEW
10. [NSW] Earthion – 5,689 / NEW
11. [NS2] Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV – 5,158 / 69,783
12. [NSW] Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 – 4,587 / 90,296
13. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 4,358 / 8,243,418
14. [PS5] Ghost of Yotei – 4,187 / 177,073
15. [NSW] Minecraft – 4,067 / 4,036,247
16. [NSW] D.C. Da Capo Re:tune – 3,746 / NEW
17. [NSW] Once Upon a Katamari – 3,445 / 20,734
18. [PS5] Battlefield 6 – 3,068 / 38,542
19. [NSW] The Aquarium Does Not Dance – 2,837 / NEW
20. [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree – 2,440 / 1,406,491
21. [NSW] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles 2 – 2,380 / 144,229
22. [NSW] Touhou Gensou Mahjong – 2,276 / NEW
23. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 2,204 / 6,464,709
24. [PS5] Earthion – 2,179 / NEW
25. [PS5] 7 Days to Die: Console Edition – 2,124 / NEW
26. [PS5] Digimon Story: Time Stranger – 1,842 / 37,693
27. [PS5] Ninja Gaiden 4 – 1,836 / 13,809
28. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Violet – 1,708 / 5,630,033
29. [NSW] Little Nightmares 3 – 1,699 / 27,181
30. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 1,673 / 5,810,562

NS - 17
PS5 - 8
NS2 - 5

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Otter on 07 November 2025

This will be the first digimon game to hit 100k (physical) in recent memory. Probably is at 150k+ including digital and PC



The_Liquid_Laser on 07 November 2025

SW2 has impressive hardware sales.
NSW has impressive software sales.
PS5 has 8 titles in the top 30. Impressive!



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Sephiran on 08 November 2025
Otter said:

This will be the first digimon game to hit 100k (physical) in recent memory. Probably is at 150k+ including digital and PC

Eh what? No chance Digimon hits 100k physical in Japan, its under 40k sales now and will probably be gone from the top 30 next week. PS5 games don't have those kind of evergreen legs at retail, even something like Yotei is declining pretty fast at retail in Japan and is already selling below DK Bananza.



IcaroRibeiro on 08 November 2025
Sephiran said:
Otter said:

This will be the first digimon game to hit 100k (physical) in recent memory. Probably is at 150k+ including digital and PC

Eh what? No chance Digimon hits 100k physical in Japan, its under 40k sales now and will probably be gone from the top 30 next week. PS5 games don't have those kind of evergreen legs at retail, even something like Yotei is declining pretty fast at retail in Japan and is already selling below DK Bananza.

This thread says it's on 87k. 100k retail lifetime makes sense even if it leaves top 30 next week. It must be ~95k by the end of year, we will know if it reaches the Famistu year end chart

150k digital + PC also makes sense for me