1. Why Japan and not another country?
2. If it's to do with currency, are we sure people aren't just importing switch games from Japan thereby inflating the software sales there?
Famitsu 2023 annual — NSW#1 (-15%), PS5#2 (+124%), XBS#3 (−47%) | Zelda TOTK#1, Mario Wonder#2, Pikmin 4#3 (physical only)Highest PS5 sales since 2004
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2. If it's to do with currency, are we sure people aren't just importing switch games from Japan thereby inflating the software sales there?
JP ps5 owners are most likely playing mostly f2p games like genshin and HSR on it, we also got an official slide from Sony a while back pointing out that JP region spends more time on PS+ catalogue games than any other region. With how weak JPY is and how expensive the console is I'm not surprised that the game attach ratio is low and I wouldn't buy into any of the conspiracies about shipping PS5s out of the country. Maybe in 2021 and early 2022, but not now.
I don't know why PS5 even have a price hike.
The damn thing should be categorized as domestic goods, so why weak JPY is the excuse?
Services, I understood.
I expect the same shit with Nintendo next hardware.
Nintendo drones on trashera are upset that PS5 sold 2.6M.
It's well understood that portables sell to a larger market, as they're less likely to be shared by a household than appliances or electronics like consoles are. In that light, Switch sales are meh.Nintendo drones on trashera are upset that PS5 sold 2.6M.
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Wonder how PS Portal sells over there. I have a feeling it'll positively surprise ppl. I know it was out of stock in alot of places over there just like in the states. Tht doesn't say much though unless we know the stocks allocated.
Well because of how much cheaper it was to get a PS5 in Japan relative to other countries in the region I'd assume. That and IIRC PS5s in places like China are region-locked, which isn't the case with Japanese PS5s. So that'd make importing from Japan more alluring.
This actually could be the case, and yeah it's never brought up as a point of speculation when there's a chance is likely should. If Japanese PS5s are being exported to some degree, there's a likelihood Japanese Switch physical games are also being exported to some degree.
But that's not part of the anti-PS narrative, so you won't see people like Fiendcode ever mention it. Even if it's within a similar realm of probability.
Not just switch games. Switch consoles too. Japan sales are at rock bottom for Nintendo consoles because of all the exporting.
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Consoles registered as sold in Japan stay in Japan and the PS5 audience there is more into F2P games and spend more on MTX, which is more plausible.
Anyone who repeats the ps5s are being exported en masse line sounds like a flat earther to me.
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Nintendolts desperately clinging to the notion that Japan belongs to Nintendo to the point of delusion.
They’re as pathetic as the Xbots who talk about how Xbox has made gains in Japan and the next generation will totally turn things around, in spite of all indications that this is the end of that road, and coming closer faster than anyone predicted.
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Japanese physical sales neared $3bn in 2023 | Japan Annual Report
Almost $3 billion was spent on boxed games and hardware in Japan last year, according to Famitsu's annual report. The t…
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Almost $3 billion was spent on boxed games and hardware in Japan last year, according to Famitsu's annual report.
The total sales of physical games products amounted to ¥403.8 billion ($2.7 billion) from December 26, 2022 to December 31, 2023 – a 7.8% increase compared to ¥384.6 billion ($2.5 billion) in 2022.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was the best-selling game of the year with 1.9 million boxed copies shifted since it debuted in May.
Super Mario Bros Wonder was close behind in second place with 1.5 million boxed copies sold since its release in October.
Momotaro Dentetsu World: The Earth Spins With Hope saw a surge in sales in December. Since we reported Japan's best-selling boxed games of the year up until December 3 in our annual Year in Numbers report, the Konami title moved up two places ahead of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe.
Every game in the top ten were for Nintendo Switch, with seven published by Nintendo (Pokémon Scarlet & Violet is published by The Pokémon Company in Japan).
In terms of hardware, Nintendo Switch was once again the best-selling console in Japan with the Nintendo Switch OLED model being the most popular with 2.8 million units sold.
PlayStation 5 came in second at 2.5 million units sold, followed by Xbox Series X|S at 141,712 units sold.
Below are the top ten best-selling boxed games along with their sales totals for December 26, 2022 to December 31, 2023, courtesy of Famitsu:
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch, Nintendo) – 1,929,603
- Super Mario Bros Wonder (Switch, Nintendo) – 1,549,401
- Pikmin 4 (Switch, Nintendo) – 1,119,027
- Pokémon Scarlet & Violet (Switch, The Pokémon Company) – 907,432
- Momotaro Dentetsu World: The Earth Spins with Hope (Switch, Konami) – 795,681
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch, Nintendo) – 617,223
- Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe (Switch, Nintendo) – 514,581
- Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince (Switch, Square Enix) – 510,477
- Splatoon 3 (Switch, Nintendo) – 503,312
- Super Mario RPG (Switch, Nintendo) – 447,687
