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The PS5 digital editions are outselling the disc drive edition for a margin close to 7:1

Further absence of PS5 titles on Famitsu charts are to be expected. They need to create a digital chart, it's really long overdue now



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Nintendo Switch Lite top selling form after a long time.
For @@@@ sake, how famitsu is capable of counting 25 units sales in a vast country and can't track sales from Amazon etc.

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It’ll be interesting to see how MKWorld perform now that the pack-in bundle has ended. I’d imagine this won’t stop the game from making the Top 10 charts every week, though I’m curious just how much legs will be slashed by.

Also, Kirby has finally surpassed DK— no surprises here. Hoping to see both titles hit 1mil in JP LTD.



IcaroRibeiro said:

The PS5 digital editions are outselling the disc drive edition for a margin close to 7:1

Further absence of PS5 titles on Famitsu charts are to be expected. They need to create a digital chart, it's really long overdue now

The trouble with digital sales is that the data is not accessible to anyone but the console makers.



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TruckOSaurus said:
IcaroRibeiro said:

The PS5 digital editions are outselling the disc drive edition for a margin close to 7:1

Further absence of PS5 titles on Famitsu charts are to be expected. They need to create a digital chart, it's really long overdue now

The trouble with digital sales is that the data is not accessible to anyone but the console makers.

If they are willing to build a chart with numbers of publishers willing to share data its at least something, it will give at least some general idea on how much titles are selling digitally 

Some data is better than no data





Pokémon on Switch 2 slightly ahead of Switch 1, for the first time I believe. Momotaro showing strong legs just like it's predecessors.

Switch Lite ahead of the OLED is unusual; makes sense now that Switch 2 takes the place of the "high end" model, but up til this point the OLED had clung to its #1 spot.



Let's say PS5 sells around 600k+ this year in Japan, that would put its lifetime sales at the end of 2026 at at around 7,9M-8M. Switch 2 is now at 4M, so seems likely with those figures in mind that Switch 2 overtaking lifetime PS5 sales in Japan should happen around September-October at the earliest

I think Switch 2 will sell around 5M+ this year in Japan. PS5 could also have a somewhat bigger decline to maybe 500k+ or so sales in Japan this year which would make Switch 2 overtake PS5 a bit faster as well.

If my prediction comes true, that would mean that Switch 2 in 15-16 months on the market would overtake what took 6 years for PS5 to sell in Japan.



Really strong Switch 2 sales especially considering the fact that Furukawa recently said that the supply issue has been resolved everywhere except Japan with a bit more time needed there so this isn't even the maximum demand for it. With this being a significantly stronger start than the Switch 1 in 2018 despite supply issues not quite resolved there yet it should do very well there this year indeed and perhaps get closer to 5m than I was expecting.

For the Switch 1 it's over 70% down YoY already and with week 1 being significantly bigger than week 2 it might've dropped back below 15k again for week 2 so the drops are gonna be huge for a while considering how well the Switch 1 did the first few months of last year in Japan. The PS5 is only 20% down which is a decent sign but time will tell if it can keep that up for most of the year. The cheap digital model took up nearly a whooping 80% of sales so the PS5's maximum potential for physical software has already been reached so the software charts are gonna be less representative than ever for the PS side. Also they'll surely stop tracking the PS4 soon right? There's really no point in keeping it for another full year to add like a few hundred or so extra sales.

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