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Famitsu Sales: Week 42, 2024 (Oct 14 - Oct 20)

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[Weekly software and hardware sales figures] "Super Mario Party Jamboree" takes the top spot! "Prospi" also ranks high, while new Xbox Series X|S models are released [10/14-10/20]​


Sales ranking announced by Famitsu. Here is a summary of the estimated weekly sales figures for game software and hardware from October 14 to October 20, 2024. The latest party game Super Mario Party Jamboree in which you control characters from the Super Mario series and enjoy various mini-games, is making its debut.

It sold 227,569 units and took the top spot. Five new boards and two remade boards have been released. It also includes over 110 mini-games, making it the largest in the series and we can expect continued sales in the future.

Coming in second is Professional Baseball Spirits 2024-2025 which is also making its first appearance on the list. This title which commemorates the 20th anniversary of the baseball simulation game Professional Baseball Spirits features Shohei Otani as a member of the Japanese national team.

Two new modes are also included which allow players to play from the perspective of a professional baseball team's general manager and president and a high school baseball coach and these are also attracting attention.

Meanwhile, looking at the hardware, the new Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S models were released on October 15, 2024.

The new Xbox Series X model is a digital edition without a disc drive and its list price is about 7,000 yen cheaper than the previous model. The new Xbox Series S model is about 5,400 yen more expensive than the previous model but the SSD capacity has been increased from 512GB to 1TB.

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Famitsu Sales: Week 42, 2024 (Oct 14 - Oct 20)​

Software​


1st [Switch] Super Mario Party Jamboree NEW!
227,569 (total 227,569) / Nintendo / October 17, 2024

2nd [PS5] Pro Baseball Spirits 2024-2025 NEW!
69,078 (total 69,078) / Konami / October 17, 2024

3rd [Switch] The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
13,273 (total 281,312 copies) -33% / Nintendo / September 26, 2024

4th [PS5] Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero
12,928 (total 76,850) -80% / Bandai Namco Entertainment / October 10, 2024

5th [PS5] Metaphor: ReFantasio
12,492 (total of 95,319) -85% / Atlus / October 11, 2024

6th [Switch] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
7,605 (total 6,033,177) +19% / Nintendo / April 28, 2017

7th [Switch] Minecraft
5,408 (total of 3,657,912) +15% / Microsoft Japan / June 21, 2018

8th [Switch] Animal Crossing: New Horizons
4,665 (total 7,935,333) +8% / Nintendo / March 20, 2020

9th [PS4] Metaphor: ReFantasio
4,610 (total 29,995) -82% / Atlus / October 11, 2024

10th [PS5] Silent Hill 2
4,287 (total 33,661) -85% / Konami / October 8, 2024

Hardware​

  • Switch: 4,648 (total 19,922,508)
  • Switch Lite: 16,911 (total 6,151,877)
  • Switch Oled: 37,294 (total 8,046,039)
  • PS5: 9,649 (total 5,232,593)
  • PS5 DE: 1,666 (total 861,219)
  • Xbox Series X: 147 (total 307,834)
  • Xbox Series X DE: 2,831 (total 2,831)
  • Xbox Series S: 1,460 (total 321,288)
  • PS4: 34 (total 7,928,618)

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Jamboree is locked to sell above 2 million units in Japan.

It was unthinkable back then but Jamboree is going to be bigger than Dragon Quest 3 Remake.

Playstation 5 is now officially trailing behind Playstation 4 in week 206
PS4 - 140.432 / 6.187.000
PS5 - 11.315 / 6.093.812
 
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Thick Thighs Save Lives

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Great debut for Jamboree there. Expected drops for Metaphor ReFantazio. As for SH2 I thought it might have a softer drop than that, still, respectable numbers.
 
Luminoth-4545

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Opening week's of Mario Party games on Switch, Credit to Lelouch0612 from InstallBase.

Famitsu Sales: Week 40, 2018 (Oct 01 - Oct 07)

01.[NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo) - 126.275 / NEW

Famitsu Sales: Week 44, 2021 (Oct 25 - Oct 31)

01. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo) - 163.256 / NEW

Famitsu Sales: Week 42, 2024 (Oct 14 - Oct 20)

01. [NSW] Super Mario Party: Jamboree (Nintendo) - 227.569 / NEW
 
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Thick Thighs Save Lives

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Fake said:
First time many Playstation at top 10.
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This period is full of big releases so it's kinda expected. Last week, PS had 4 out of the top 5 spots in the famitsu sales chart.

1st [PS5] Metaphor: ReFantasio
82,827 (total 82,827) New / Atlus / October 11, 2024

2nd [PS5] Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO
63,922 (total 63,922) New / Bandai Namco Entertainment / October 10, 2024

3rd [PS5] SILENT HILL 2
29,374 (total 29,374) New / Konami / October 8, 2024

4th [PS4] Metaphor: ReFantasio
25,385 (total 25,385) New / Atlus / October 11, 2024

5th [Switch] The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
19,710 (total 268,039) -59% / Nintendo / September 26, 2024
 
Woopah

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Possibly the best Mario Party debut ever! Baseball on PS5 looks good too.

Legs for EoW are looking nice, and the drops for last week's games are as expected.

Fake said:
First time many Playstation at top 10.
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Yes it's been a while since there was 5. October was a good month for PS releases.
Tiago Rodrigues said:
After that price increase it was only a matter of time. Also...wtf released that week for those PS4 sales in Japan?
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That was the week Monster Hunter World came out.
 
Mibu no ookami

Mibu no ookami

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Tiago Rodrigues said:
After that price increase it was only a matter of time. Also...wtf released that week for those PS4 sales in Japan?
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It's not just the price increase. The PS5 is constantly sold out in Japan. They aren't shipping units there for some reason. It seems like they're getting the same shipment of units weekly about 11K.

Any retailer in Japan is either sold out (including pro models) or limits 1 per customer.
 
Impotaku

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Mibu no ookami said:
It's not just the price increase. The PS5 is constantly sold out in Japan. They aren't shipping units there for some reason. It seems like they're getting the same shipment of units weekly about 11K.

Any retailer in Japan is either sold out (including pro models) or limits 1 per customer.
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Looks in stock to me, disk edition sold by amazon & not a reseller

digital edition also in stock
 
Mibu no ookami

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Impotaku said:
Looks in stock to me, disk edition sold by amazon & not a reseller

digital edition also in stock
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It's so interesting that you didn't read what I said nor did you actually look at the contents of the links you sent me...

All of those links from amazon japan are used units, because Amazon Japan is sold out of new units.
 
mckmas8808

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Sony really doesn't care if the PS5 sells in Japan it seems.

Mibu no ookami said:
It's not just the price increase. The PS5 is constantly sold out in Japan. They aren't shipping units there for some reason. It seems like they're getting the same shipment of units weekly about 11K.

Any retailer in Japan is either sold out (including pro models) or limits 1 per customer.
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Interesting.......what is Sony doing in Japan? I can't make sense of this behavior from them.
 
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Impotaku

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Mibu no ookami said:
It's so interesting that you didn't read what I said nor did you actually look at the contents of the links you sent me...

All of those links from amazon japan are used units, because Amazon Japan is sold out of new units.
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LOOOL maybe you should actually take your own advice and look properly, first link is disk edition and is sold NEW and in stock from amazon themselves not a used model. If you want a used one you click to the other sellers option. Selective blindness you have there, here let me enlarge for you from the disk listing, although it's the same on digital listing too sold by and shipped by amazon japan too means they are NEW. I use amazon japan almost weekly i know how it works thanks. The narrative of them been sold out all the time is false.
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Woopah

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mckmas8808 said:
Sony really doesn't care if the PS5 sells in Japan it seems.



Interesting.......what is Sony doing in Japan? I can't make sense of this behavior from them.
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Prioritising their most profitable markets. They make more on PS5s sold in different countries than those bought from resellers from Japan.
 
Mibu no ookami

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Impotaku said:
LOOOL maybe you should actually take your own advice and look properly, first link is disk edition and is sold NEW and in stock from amazon themselves not a used model. If you want a used one you click to the other sellers option. Selective blindness you have there, here let me enlarge for you from the disk listing, although it's the same on digital listing too sold by and shipped by amazon japan too means they are NEW. I use amazon japan almost weekly i know how it works thanks. The narrative of them been sold out all the time is false.
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I'm entirely unable to replicate this.

Woopah Woopah mckmas8808 mckmas8808 are you?
 
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the switch has already sold more in japan than it did last year? no wonder why they haven't announced the switch 2 yet.
 
Mibu no ookami

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mckmas8808 said:
Sony really doesn't care if the PS5 sells in Japan it seems.



Interesting.......what is Sony doing in Japan? I can't make sense of this behavior from them.
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My guess is they're prioritizing supply for China from demand due to Wukong, but also like Woopah says here based on profitability. Especially countries where they have direct to consumer sales available.

PS5 is widely available in the US for example and there isn't a 1 per customer limit. You go to Amazon US and you can order as many PS5s as you want (up to 750 units)

Woopah said:
Prioritising their most profitable markets. They make more on PS5s sold in different countries than those bought from resellers from Japan.
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I think this is part of it, but I'm not certain that tracks with the price increase.
 
Woopah

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Mibu no ookami said:
My guess is they're prioritizing supply for China from demand due to Wukong, but also like Woopah says here based on profitability. Especially countries where they have direct to consumer sales available.

PS5 is widely available in the US for example and there isn't a 1 per customer limit. You go to Amazon US and you can order as many PS5s as you want (up to 750 units)



I think this is part of it, but I'm not certain that tracks with the price increase.
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A big reason for the price increase was to stop resellers taking advantage of the weak yen. It's better for Sony if people buy PS5s in their home countries instead of importing from Japan.

The "1 per customer" restriction will help fight resellers too.

This might also be why they raised the price in South Korea lately
 
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best

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First week in a while where Xbox is actually somewhat competitive with PS5 in hardware sales (4,438 vs 11,615). Typically the gap is MUCH bigger between them.

Also insane opening for Jamboree; seems like it's the best Mario Party in a long time. Metaphor with a decent 2nd week; it's probably holding better digitally. Won't be surprised if an enhanced port is a Switch 2 launch title, though. Still no Astro Bot on the charts; Sony have failed this game in Japan when it comes to physical sales. What incompetence.
 
Impotaku

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Mibu no ookami said:
Nevermind, I was able to replicate it by changing my delivery area, but I'm still right. It's still limit 1 per customer. Which is included in what I said initially.
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It's still not sold out though is it? Limiting it to 1 customer doesn't change anything it's still available to buy. This narrative that the ps5 is always sold out and thats why the sales totals are so low is just one of many excuses people keep using. Same with the oh they are all been bought by scalpers, where's the proof of this how do they track these ps5 consoles that left japan? Strange as if this was happening because of the weak yen why hasn't nintendo upped the price of any of the switch hardware for the same reason?

Sony should be doing anything & everything to increase userbase numbers even if it means slashing the price not milking it so they can get the hardware numbers out there. A huge userbase means more people buying your games (minus concord) with that size userbase it means even if a small percentage buy your next game then that's still a decent chunk of sales it's not sustainable to magically expect every single ps5 user to buy every title to get good sales numbers. And this is where sony fucked up, it only takes a tiny fraction of the switch userbase to buy a game for it to have decent sales this is how they should be doing it.
 
Mibu no ookami

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Woopah said:
A big reason for the price increase was to stop resellers taking advantage of the weak yen. It's better for Sony if people buy PS5s in their home countries instead of importing from Japan.

The "1 per customer" restriction will help fight resellers too.

This might also be why they raised the price in South Korea lately
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With the price increase you're looking at 527.23 USD including tax. People have derided Sony as not caring about Japan as a result of increasing the price, but this price is entirely in line with what we're paying in the US. Almost to the dollar this is what you're paying in California.

But right now the PS5 is on sale in china for the equivalent of 477.43 though I do not know if that includes the VAT.

I think it's clear they're trying to push units locally in China. Seems like this sale is going through 11/12.
 
Woopah

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Impotaku said:
It's still not sold out though is it? Limiting it to 1 customer doesn't change anything it's still available to buy. This narrative that the ps5 is always sold out and thats why the sales totals are so low is just one of many excuses people keep using. Same with the oh they are all been bought by scalpers, where's the proof of this how do they track these ps5 consoles that left japan? Strange as if this was happening because of the weak yen why hasn't nintendo upped the price of any of the switch hardware for the same reason?

Sony should be doing anything & everything to increase userbase numbers even if it means slashing the price not milking it so they can get the hardware numbers out there. A huge userbase means more people buying your games (minus concord) with that size userbase it means even if a small percentage buy your next game then that's still a decent chunk of sales it's not sustainable to magically expect every single ps5 user to buy every title to get good sales numbers. And this is where sony fucked up, it only takes a tiny fraction of the switch userbase to buy a game for it to have decent sales this is how they should be doing it.
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Reselling was specifically mentioned by Sony and I do think its affecting Switch as well.

It's the best explanation for the weird sales trajectory we've seen for both platforms in the past 12 months.

As for why Nintendo hasn't increased price, it's likely because:

1. Their hardware margins are bigger and so they can take the hit
2. Japan will represent a greater proportion of their profit than it does for Sony.
 
Mibu no ookami

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Impotaku said:
It's still not sold out though is it? Limiting it to 1 customer doesn't change anything it's still available to buy. This narrative that the ps5 is always sold out and thats why the sales totals are so low is just one of many excuses people keep using. Same with the oh they are all been bought by scalpers, where's the proof of this how do they track these ps5 consoles that left japan? Strange as if this was happening because of the weak yen why hasn't nintendo upped the price of any of the switch hardware for the same reason?

Sony should be doing anything & everything to increase userbase numbers even if it means slashing the price not milking it so they can get the hardware numbers out there. A huge userbase means more people buying your games (minus concord) with that size userbase it means even if a small percentage buy your next game then that's still a decent chunk of sales it's not sustainable to magically expect every single ps5 user to buy every title to get good sales numbers. And this is where sony fucked up, it only takes a tiny fraction of the switch userbase to buy a game for it to have decent sales this is how they should be doing it.
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Read my original post. What did I say.

I said either sold out or limited to 1 per customer.

I can show you numerous retailers in Japan that are in fact sold out, but the commonality is 1 per customer, clearly stock is limited. It's not selling 0 units every week, there is stock refresh, but again, it's limited.

Why is the PS5 Pro completely sold out in Japan but not in Europe and North America? It's certainly selling more units in North America than Japan... it comes down to stock.

You fundamentally don't understand console sales, GaaS, and MTX.

Answer me this. If someone only plays GTA Online or Fortnite on PS4, does it make sense to discount the PS5 to get them to play the same game on PS5? Does this generate additional revenue? What does it do to operating income?
 
Woopah

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Mibu no ookami said:
With the price increase you're looking at 527.23 USD including tax. People have derided Sony as not caring about Japan as a result of increasing the price, but this price is entirely in line with what we're paying in the US. Almost to the dollar this is what you're paying in California.

But right now the PS5 is on sale in china for the equivalent of 477.43 though I do not know if that includes the VAT.

I think it's clear they're trying to push units locally in China. Seems like this sale is going through 11/12.
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That's my point. Sony brought it almost exactly in line with the dollar. Now there is no longer any advantage for people to buy from Japan instead of their own country.

So it's the same value from an international sense, but the PS5 is a lot more expensive for someone living in Japan relative to someone living in the US.
 
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mckmas8808

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Woopah said:
Prioritising their most profitable markets. They make more on PS5s sold in different countries than those bought from resellers from Japan.
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The pushing more PS5s to China is an interesting point too. Too bad we'll never get those numbers though. :(
 
Impotaku

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Mibu no ookami said:
Read my original post. What did I say.

I said either sold out or limited to 1 per customer.

I can show you numerous retailers in Japan that are in fact sold out, but the commonality is 1 per customer, clearly stock is limited. It's not selling 0 units every week, there is stock refresh, but again, it's limited.

Why is the PS5 Pro completely sold out in Japan but not in Europe and North America? It's certainly selling more units in North America than Japan... it comes down to stock.

You fundamentally don't understand console sales, GaaS, and MTX.

Answer me this. If someone only plays GTA Online or Fortnite on PS4, does it make sense to discount the PS5 to get them to play the same game on PS5? Does this generate additional revenue? What does it do to operating income?
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This is about physical game sales in japan, we already know the rough digital/physical splits for playstation & switch. We are going on the sales of the physical side of it. Yeah there's probably loads of uncounted sales from digital side but japan is one region where physical releases are still strong so thats what we are talking about unless you think that all the sales are so low because everyone just buys digital instead if thats the case then we need digital numbers and seeing as there's no exact numbers all anyone can do is guess. Newsflash not everyone plays fortnight or gta online sony probably doesnt give a damn about attracting those types to ps5 the kind that only buy 3 games for a system and nothing else, that doesn't bring in much unless you are attracting huge spending mtx whales and those will not make the numbers.

They would rather have new users that buy many games on a ps5 and spend in the ecosystem, how is the current offering appealing to a new user in Japan wanting to buy a PS5? Bringing the consoles price in line with the rest of the world might be good for sony but in japan that doesn't mean much to the japanese living there all they see is it's become more expensive, how is that going to attract over old PS4 users that want to jump on board? Sony are sacrificing a new userbase over short term profits. Look at the weekly charts and the 3rd party releases, how many weeks go by where there's maybe one or two ps5 games still in the charts if any. You think someone in japan is going into a games store looking to buy a new ps5 and sees a small shelf full of games to go with it and is going to think hmm great. All the people that wanted a ps5 probab;y have one now the japanse sony faithful. They need to pull in new users until they gain a large userbase their games sales both 1st & 3rd party will continue to be lacklustre.

Well until monster hunter drops, if that doesn't cause ps5 hardware and software sales to go through the roof then japan is truly a lost cause for sony.
 
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Mibu no ookami said:
It's not just the price increase. The PS5 is constantly sold out in Japan. They aren't shipping units there for some reason. It seems like they're getting the same shipment of units weekly about 11K.

Any retailer in Japan is either sold out (including pro models) or limits 1 per customer.
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PS5 sales dropped from ~30K to 10K with the price increase, is ALL about the price increase. If you think that Sony is shipping only 11K weekly you are in denial mode.
 
Mibu no ookami

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Impotaku said:
This is about physical game sales in japan, we already know the rough digital/physical splits for playstation & switch. We are going on the sales of the physical side of it. Yeah there's probably loads of uncounted sales from digital side but japan is one region where physical releases are still strong so thats what we are talking about unless you think that all the sales are so low because everyone just buys digital instead if thats the case then we need digital numbers and seeing as there's no exact numbers all anyone can do is guess. Newsflash not everyone plays fortnight or gta online sony probably doesnt give a damn about attracting those types to ps5 the kind that only buy 3 games for a system and nothing else, that doesn't bring in much unless you are attracting huge spending mtx whales and those will not make the numbers.

They would rather have new users that buy many games on a ps5 and spend in the ecosystem, how is the current offering appealing to a new user in Japan wanting to buy a PS5? Bringing the consoles price in line with the rest of the world might be good for sony but in japan that doesn't mean much to the japanese living there all they see is it's become more expensive, how is that going to attract over old PS4 users that want to jump on board? Sony are sacrificing a new userbase over short term profits. Look at the weekly charts and the 3rd party releases, how many weeks go by where there's maybe one or two ps5 games still in the charts if any. You think someone in japan is going into a games store looking to buy a new ps5 and sees a small shelf full of games to go with it and is going to think hmm great. All the people that wanted a ps5 probab;y have one now the japanse sony faithful. They need to pull in new users until they gain a large userbase their games sales both 1st & 3rd party will continue to be lacklustre.

Well until monster hunter drops, if that doesn't cause ps5 hardware and software sales to go through the roof then japan is truly a lost cause for sony.
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Look at the top downloads for PS4 for September... It's all GaaS, cheap games, and heavily discounted games.

This is why Sony isn't focused on cutting the price of the PS5. It literally makes no sense to. Even the top games on PS5 in Japan are games like Genshin Impact, eFootball, Zenless Zone Zero, Apex Legends, Overwatch, Honkai Rail Star.

There are a couple titles like Baseball Spirits and EA FC 25 but they won't stay on top for long.

Spending is slowing rising globally, but people are buying fewer games and fewer titles and spending more and more time in GaaS/Annual release titles.

You don't even realize that the price in Japan IS in line with the rest of the world... In fact its still one of the cheapest regions.
 
Woopah

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mckmas8808 said:
The pushing more PS5s to China is an interesting point too. Too bad we'll never get those numbers though. :(
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I would love to get them! We'll just have to rely on the estimates from Nico Partners.

RoboFu said:
the switch has already sold more in japan than it did last year? no wonder why they haven't announced the switch 2 yet.
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It hasn't, Switch will sell fewer units this year than last year and most other years.
Mibu no ookami said:
Why do you think it is selling exactly in the 11K units per week? Why not 9K or 14K?
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To be fair it's not exactly 11k all the time, it's recent sales have been:

11,315
11,804
12,551
10,799
8,757
10,095
11,007
33,865
 
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Woopah said:
To be fair it's not exactly 11k all the time, it's recent sales have been:

11,315
11,804
12,551
10,799
8,757
10,095
11,007
33,865
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Dropped from 33K to 11K the same week of the price hike… So, is a direct consequence of the price increase, not a weird theory of limited supply based on nothing.
 
Mibu no ookami

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Woopah said:
To be fair it's not exactly 11k all the time, it's recent sales have been:

11,315
11,804
12,551
10,799
8,757
10,095
11,007
33,865
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re-read what I said

In the last 7 weeks it has a median sales of 10,904.

In the last 4 weeks it has had a median sales of 11,617.

It been within 1000 units of being within 11,000 and 11,999 the last 4 weeks. Even the week it sold under 11K units it surged over 11K units the following week, suggesting it was a long reporting week or a different shipping pattern.

It's extremely odd for the sales to be that specific week in and week out and more so again, all online retailers are either limit 1 or sold out.
 
Woopah

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Mibu no ookami said:
re-read what I said

In the last 7 weeks it has a median sales of 10,904.

In the last 4 weeks it has had a median sales of 11,617.

It been within 1000 units of being within 11,000 and 11,999 the last 4 weeks. Even the week it sold under 11K units it surged over 11K units the following week, suggesting it was a long reporting week or a different shipping pattern.

It's extremely odd for the sales to be that specific week in and week out and more so again, all online retailers are either limit 1 or sold out.
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Online retailers are limiting it to prevent resellers. But you can still actually buy the console.

Regarding sales being so specific, its not unusal for consoles to have a baseline. Here's some sales from PS3 in September/October 2007:

13,248
13,101
10,732
13,105
13,101
13,248
10,822
12,365

That's pretty similar to what we're seeing from PS5 now.
 
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Impotaku said:
It's still not sold out though is it? Limiting it to 1 customer doesn't change anything it's still available to buy. This narrative that the ps5 is always sold out and thats why the sales totals are so low is just one of many excuses people keep using. Same with the oh they are all been bought by scalpers, where's the proof of this how do they track these ps5 consoles that left japan? Strange as if this was happening because of the weak yen why hasn't nintendo upped the price of any of the switch hardware for the same reason?

Sony should be doing anything & everything to increase userbase numbers even if it means slashing the price not milking it so they can get the hardware numbers out there. A huge userbase means more people buying your games (minus concord) with that size userbase it means even if a small percentage buy your next game then that's still a decent chunk of sales it's not sustainable to magically expect every single ps5 user to buy every title to get good sales numbers. And this is where sony fucked up, it only takes a tiny fraction of the switch userbase to buy a game for it to have decent sales this is how they should be doing it.
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You had one retailer. Not a sign of stock.
 
kazuyamishima

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I would say that since the PS5 launched in November 2020, Japan is the only region where the system hasn't had any temporary price cuts, just some very mild promotions.

Instead, it had received 2 - 3 price increases, don't know if they are "punishing" the region or they don't care. Still, the numbers for the price are somehow "not bad".
 
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kazuyamishima said:
I would say that since the PS5 launched in November 2020, Japan is the only region where the system hasn't had any temporary price cuts, just some very mild promotions.

Instead, it had received 2 - 3 price increases, don't know if they are "punishing" the region or they don't care. Still, the numbers for the price are somehow "not bad".
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I don't think it has anything to do with "punishing". It's just their reaction to the yen weakness and reselling.
 
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