Installbase: France Hardware Sales Estimation

[ethomaz]

Some hardware sales estimation in France for the year... thanks to the people of InstallBase.

France Hardware estimate (January - September):

Console	2024	2023	LTD
PlayStation 5	0.6M	0.75M	3.0M
Nintendo Switch	0.4M	0.48M	8.4M
Xbox Series	<75k	0.10M	>750k
Total	1.1M	1.33M	-

Plus if anymore is interested in the week ranking...

GFK - WEEK 41, 2024 (OCT 06 - OCT 12) - [INDIVIDUAL FORMATS] - [UNITS] - [RETAIL ONLY] - [NO BUNDLE]

01 (NE) [PS5] DRAGON BALL SPARKING! ZERO (BANDAI NAMCO ENT.)
02 (01) [PS5] EA SPORTS FC 25 (ELECTRONIC ARTS)
03 (NE) [PS5] SILENT HILL 2 (KONAMI)
04 (02) [NSW] THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: ECHOES OF WISDOM (NINTENDO)
05 (03) [PS4] EA SPORTS FC 25 (ELECTRONIC ARTS)
06 (NE) [XBS] DRAGON BALL SPARKING! ZERO (BANDAI NAMCO ENT.)
07 (04) [NSW] EA SPORTS FC 25 (ELECTRONIC ARTS)
08 (NE) [PS5] METAPHOR: REFANTAZIO (ATLUS)
09 (NE) [NSW] FINAL FANTASY I-VI PIXEL REMASTERED COLLECTION ANIVERSARY EDITION (SQUARE ENIX)
10 (07) [NSW] MARIO KART 8 DELUXE (NINTENDO)

 

[Danja]

PS5 still doing mediocre numbers in France, can't say I'm surprised.

Metaphor isn't doing too hot across Europe it seems

 

[ethomaz]

Metaphor isn't doing too hot across Europe it seems

Depends what you mean by hot... Person 3 Reload didn't even charted in the TOP10 in France.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

PS5 still doing mediocre numbers in France, can't say I'm surprised.

France, at this point in time, is the second Japan.

Metaphor isn't doing too hot across Europe it seems

From some of the numbers weekly numbers we've got for France/Spain it has done better than P3R and other recent titles.
Atlus games just don't sell that much in Europe, but it has done the best out of recent releases.
Probably has to do with how the franchise didn't get EFIGS(minus the E) translations till circa 2018~ and Persona 5 Royal was the first big title to get those.

This continues the trend of Atlus RPGs(minus Soul Hackers 2) opening to a bigger/faster number worldwide.
It's a steady upward trajectory that will no doubt culminate in the release of Persona 6 in...2026?

 

[CrackmanNL]

Metaphor ain't doing well especially considering France is the anime country of Europe, great SH2 doing well, ofc DBSZ no surprise.

PS5 is on track to match PS4's 6 million sales, excluding this year's holiday sales. To put in context, Switch is the best selling console of all time in France when it passed 7 million.

 

[Sloane_Ranger]

Wow at the Switch total numbers - I had no idea that it was so popular there compared to PS.

 

[ethomaz]

Metaphor ain't doing well especially considering France is the anime country of Europe, great SH2 doing well, ofc DBSZ no surprise.

PS5 is on track to match PS4's 6 million sales, excluding this year's holiday sales. To put in context, Switch is the best selling console of all time in France when it passed 7 million.

France is the anime country in EU.
But is it the anime game country in EU?

I say that because Metaphor seems to be one of the best selling games in France for Atlus… I think only Persona 5 did better than it.

Similar thing happened in Spain.

 

[CrackmanNL]

France is the anime country in EU.
But is it the anime game country in EU?

I say that because Metaphor seems to be one of the best selling games in France for Atlus… I think only Persona 5 did better than it.

Similar thing happens in Spain.

Not doing well l mean it's still in the top 10. Expected it to do better than SH2 based on audience and the high ratings.
But same time it's also people can only spend their money/time once and chose Sparking Zero over it. Could be tough competition and weak marketing.