A PlayStation home console (PS5) sells 2 million in a single year (9 months so far) in Japan for first time since 2005

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It only took 9 months


Famitsu: Week 39, 2023

Week 39 PS5 46,729

YTD PS5 2,031,594

Last YTD PS5 731,868

LTD PS5 4,408,983



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Sony Group CEO: " PS5 is on track to become SIE´s most successful console yet. I´m immensely grateful to Jim"

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No! Quit lying OP. Jim Ryan has destroyed the Playstation brand! Only woke westerners buy it now! Bring back Japan Studio!!! (although this I approve).
 
PS5 needs 969k in weeks 40 to 53 to hit 3 million (2023 has an extra week). This is possible if it has a really big December.
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Even including handhelds, this will be the best selling PS platform year in terms on hardware since 2010, maybe 2008.
 
PS5 is the first PS system to sell 2 million in a year since the PSP in 2010 and there are still 13 weeks of the year remaining. PS5's 2023 is currently 16th and will easily make the top 10.

Yearly sales in Japan

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Horseganador said:
The nonsense that was read years ago that the Playstation brand was dead in Japan, 2 million in 9 months are PS2 level figures.
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Often times, especially with PlayStation, online talk is far from what reality has to say about it. And yet, people continue to doubt this highly successful brand (the most, depending on what metric). It is either them or Nintendo and I'm fine conceding to either one. It simply doesn't get bigger than those brands. :)
 
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The JIM RYAN ERA BAYYY BAYYY,

And people will go "oh well look her was fired, he didnt do his due diligence, he was bad for playstation"

The playstation 5 has done remarkably well regardless of a lack of more titles this year, spiderman will shoot its numbers to the stratosphere.

All the xbox fanboys can laugh Jim is gone, but if I were ya'll Id be taken a back because this was JIM RYANS ERA, what happens when they being someone in even better, xbox about to become a third party developer lol
 
Dang, PS5 hanging around PS2 numbers. Very impressive.

Maxwell Jacob Friedman said:
All the xbox fanboys can laugh Jim is gone, but if I were ya'll Id be taken a back because this was JIM RYANS ERA, what happens when they being someone in even better, xbox about to become a third party developer lol
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I mean, yeah Jim was a great executive, but this is not new territory for PlayStation. Sony has won the hardcore gaming market every generation it has existed in. Seems weird to give the majority of the credit for PS5's success to the guy.
 
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HeWhoWalks said:
Often times, especially with PlayStation, online talk is far from what reality has to say about it. And yet, people continue to doubt this highly successful brand (the most, depending on what metric). It is either them or Nintendo and I'm fine conceding to either one. But, it doesn't get bigger than Nintendo and PlayStation. :)
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That's because of the Xbox echo-chamber and 'real gamers' trying to gain e-credibility by trying to be neutral.

At some point, they became delusional. Forums are just a very tiny portion of the gaming audience.
 
Pretty amazing and not really a surprise but good to see. And they are still trying to strengthen their games over there as well. You got to give credit where credit is due as it seems to be working worldwide thanks to their management and portfolio of games.
 
Killjoy-NL said:
That's because of the Xbox echo-chamber and 'real gamers' trying to gain e-credibility by trying to be neutral.

At some point, they became delusional. Forums are just a very tiny portion of the gaming audience.
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Oh, I know. Just wanted to highlight that it's often the echo-chambers that dominate LaLa Land while everyone else lives on Planet Reality.
 
zedinen said:
It only took 9 months


Famitsu: Week 39, 2023

Week 39 PS5 46,729

YTD PS5 2,031,594

Last YTD PS5 731,868

LTD PS5 4,408,983



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wUpUG4e.jpg




Sony Group CEO: " PS5 is on track to become SIE´s most successful console yet. I´m immensely grateful to Jim"

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Well deserved, great games, great system.
 
This is quite funny considering the tone of media create threads for a decade was that PS consoles are completely doomed there.
 
That's good but Sony's business model requires extensive software sales..
 
Thick Thighs Save Lives said:
Kerotan Kerotan I think you might be interested in reading about this milestone that the PS5 has achieved in Japan.
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It's a great day for powerful traditional dedicated home consoles in Japan. Long live the king!

Currently dancing in celebration to this song. Twerking and shaking my bum while nodding my head and sucking in my lips incase anyone wants more details.

 
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I guess the sutuation in Japan is more of a cultural shift, I don't think traditional consoles will be big there again...

I hope I'm wrong.
 
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