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次世代機の初週販売速報。PS5は発売4日間で11.8万台、Xbox Series X|Sは発売6日間で2.1万台を販売 | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com

ファミ通調べによる、次世代機（プレイステーション5、Xbox Series X|S）の初週の国内推定販売台数をお届けする。

s.famitsu.com

Best selling PS5 games are Spidey MM and DS remake at 18K units sold.

Previous consoles launch numbers comparison

Wii U: 308,600
Wii: 371,900
PS4: 322,100
Switch: 330,637

 

[reksveks]

次世代機の初週販売速報。PS5は発売4日間で11.8万台、Xbox Series X|Sは発売6日間で2.1万台を販売 | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com

ファミ通調べによる、次世代機（プレイステーション5、Xbox Series X|S）の初週の国内推定販売台数をお届けする。

s.famitsu.com

Best selling PS5 game is Spidey MM at 18K units sold.

Previous consoles launch numbers comparison

Wii U: 308,600
Wii: 371,900
PS4: 322,100
Switch: 330,637

Time range for the previous numbers?

 

[Plies]

 

[jigglet]

As a Wii U launch buyer, those Wii U numbers are shameful. 10 consoles would have been too much. Fucking trash heap of a console that was. I will never not be bitter about that fucking trainwreck (I was a shareholder at the time of the launch, fuck me what a bag of shit that was)

 

[NEbeast]

I guess this shows how fucked production was due to covid.

 

[Elcid]

次世代機の初週販売速報。PS5は発売4日間で11.8万台、Xbox Series X|Sは発売6日間で2.1万台を販売 | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com

ファミ通調べによる、次世代機（プレイステーション5、Xbox Series X|S）の初週の国内推定販売台数をお届けする。

s.famitsu.com

Best selling PS5 game is Spidey MM at 18K units sold.

Previous consoles launch numbers comparison

Wii U: 308,600
Wii: 371,900
PS4: 322,100
Switch: 330,637

In Japan or worldwide?

 

[Bodomism]

In Japan or worldwide?

Japan

 

[makemehappyagain]

lol'ed my tits clean off

 

[reksveks]

PS4 sells 4 times PS3 at Japan launch

It is noted that the impressive margin was due to supply constraints for the PS3.

www.digitalspy.com

Opening weekend to my question.

Now to see if there was any xbox numbers

The Xbox One's First Week Sales in Japan Are Pretty Bad

People did buy the Xbox One in Japan. Not very many people, mind you. For a new console's first week on sale, these numbers are, well, not good.

kotaku.com

24k for the xbox one so basically flat. Wonder what's the cause of the drop in sales for both

 

[plasmawave]

Worth keeping in mind that you couldn't pick up PS5s at stores due to Covid, so that might explain the low physical PS5 software sales numbers.

 

[MastaKiiLA]

Either Sony isn't leaning on Japan to prop it up anymore, or production was pretty damn weak. I don't doubt that they'd bias things to the West, but that's half what they sold with the PS4, and I'm pretty sure every PS5 has been sold there.

 

[Aceofspades]

PS5 selling 6 times XSS/XSX combo? Nice.

Its expected but after fake selling out reports for Xbox I thought it would do better

 

[Portugeezer]

I thought production was 10 or 15 million? Was that for the quarter?

 

[MagnesG]

XSX and XSS sold out that they actually had to depend on lotteries..

That's a first for Xbox.

 

[FranXico]

21K for Xbox in Japan is a lot too.

 

[demigod]

Japan didn't get the PS4 until 3 months after, so by that time there would've been more units for sale.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

If Xbox sold out then it is fine.

 

[ReBurn]

I doubt that this is shocking to anyone. Japan is Nintendo country these days.

 

[Radical_3d]

Pitiful numbers. I guess Japan is all about mobile since a decade ago or so...

 

[reksveks]

Interested to know the xbox split and how that changes in time.

 

[Fitzchiv]

As a Wii U launch buyer, those Wii U numbers are shameful. 10 consoles would have been too much. Fucking trash heap of a console that was. I will never not be bitter about that fucking trainwreck (I was a shareholder at the time of the launch, fuck me what a bag of shit that was)

Fantastic emulation machine now.

 

[Vlodril]

Can't sell what you don't have. I think it is sold out everywhere. Probably they didn't focus that much on Japan (along with the covid production complications).\

I would say the miles morales number is more interesting but not sure if that included digital or not. If it doesn't it is useless but if it does it seems rather low attach rate especially so for a new console launch (where usually attach rates are higher i think).

 

[[Sigma]]

Playstation is finished in Japan.

 

[Bodomism]

Can't sell what you don't have. I think it is sold out everywhere. Probably they didn't focus that much on Japan (along with the covid production complications).

The demand wasn't big enough for Sony to allocate a big shipments to Japan and prioritized more on bigger market like US and UK instead.

 

[SkylineRKR]

Japan is a lost cause for console gaming since the PS3. Its been like this for over a decade now. Even a Vita 2 would easily outsell the playstation home console there.

 

[LazyParrot]

21K for Xbox in Japan is a lot too.

It's less than Xbox One sold at launch, and we all know how that console ended up doing in Japan.

 

[Bodomism]

Playstation is finished in Japan.

Next week is going to be bloodbath as Nintendo Switch received a lot of console bundles and the release of Momotaro party game and Age Of Calamity.

 

[ToadMan]

PS4 sells 4 times PS3 at Japan launch

It is noted that the impressive margin was due to supply constraints for the PS3.

www.digitalspy.com

Opening weekend to my question.

Now to see if there was any xbox numbers

The Xbox One's First Week Sales in Japan Are Pretty Bad

People did buy the Xbox One in Japan. Not very many people, mind you. For a new console's first week on sale, these numbers are, well, not good.

kotaku.com

24k for the xbox one so basically flat. Wonder what's the cause of the drop in sales for both

Lack of supply for PS5.

EBay has a few for sale in Japan asking about USD1700!

I didn't look at Xbox.

 

[Bonfires Down]

You can't even fit a PS5 in the average japanese apartment.

 

[SkylineRKR]

PS4 ended up selling like shit in Japan as well.

 

[TLZ]

lol'ed my tits clean off

Are they nice?

You can't even fit a PS5 in the average japanese apartment.

They can probably live in a PS5.

 

[SilentUser]

That's terrible for both. Wonder if COVID + supply could be blamed, at least for PS5, but I'm not very confident it would sell much more than that.

 

[GymWolf]

Do you wanna know how many americans live in japan right now? Just watch how many series x get sold there.

 

[Vlodril]

The demand wasn't big enough for Sony to allocate a big shipments to Japan and prioritized more on bigger market like US and UK instead.

Yea they obviously prioritized Uk and EU and to be fair these days they are a lot more important than the Japanese market.

 

[SkylineRKR]

Its rather unusual because the PS4 is consistently outselling the PS3 everywhere, but in Japan I even doubt if the PS4 managed to break the PS3's totals.

It went like PS1 21m, PS2 23m, PS3 10m, PS4 9m ish? I think the 5 is going to do worse.

 

[cireza]

As a Wii U launch buyer, those Wii U numbers are shameful.

Best Nintendo console, as far as I am concerned. Still rocking this awesome machine to this day.

 

[Stuart360]

XSX/XSS sold 21k in Japan?, wow.

 

[INC]

That's pretty good for Xbx in japan

 

[NikuNashi]

Lot of bad takes in these comments. As someone living in Japan let me explain the situation. It is almost impossible to buy PS5's. Everyone wants one however numbers are very limited. In order to buy one you must enter a lottery. Latest numbers showed 1000 entries for every 1 unit available. Switch has also been sold out for last 2 months at least.

 

[Stuart360]

PS5 selling 6 times XSS/XSX combo? Nice.

Its expected but after fake selling out reports for Xbox I thought it would do better

In Japan?, of course you did.

 

[cireza]

You can't even fit a PS5 in the average japanese apartment.

This. You actually fit a Japanese apartment in a PS5. So that's a problem, undoubtedly.

Series S is a better fit for this market in terms of size. Not meaning they are going to sell like crazy.

 

[Mr. PlayStation]

What is this Japanese launch numbers?

 

[ranmafan]

Not surprised. I expected the launch numbers to be low. I was surprised it even launched at the same time considering how long it took to get the PS4 here. japan really got a small allotment. And lots of people are frustrated by it. (Including me until today as I finally lucked out and got one here in Japan).

 

[Phrixotrichus]

Seeing such low allotment numbers for markets of this size....boy oh boy. I think those consoles will be sparse for another 6 months.....

 

[as1m]

Excellent performance by Sony considering the Pandemic & shit

 

[GHG]

Did both consoles sell out in Japan?

That's the most important indicator at this stage.

 

[Neko Mimi Mode]

Both sold out allocations, so it's not too bad.

Both were lower than previous gen launch in the region, but pandemic and shit.

 

[mejin]

Both are sold out, so it is fine.

 

[Bodomism]

Lot of bad takes in these comments. As someone living in Japan let me explain the situation. It is almost impossible to buy PS5's. Everyone wants one however numbers are very limited. In order to buy one you must enter a lottery. Latest numbers showed 1000 entries for every 1 unit available. Switch has also been sold out for last 2 months at least.

At the same time it gives the same message to Japanese gamers as the previous Gen where Japan received 330K launch week shipment for 3-4 months later than Global launch, and now 118K launch week shipment and probably around the same number when adding all of those sales from PS5 launch to PS4 timeframe.

Looks like what was reported last week by bloomberg about Sony sidelines Japanese market is indeed true based on this pitiful shipment numbers.

 

[LisaMariaMartin]

Those attach rates are awful. What the fuck are they playing over there?