The PS5 install base is definitely smaller In Japan launched aligned with PS4. A lot of PS5's didn't stay in Japan
Japan Hardware and Software sales ( June 26 - July 2 )
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The PS5 install base is definitely smaller In Japan launched aligned with PS4. A lot of PS5's didn't stay in Japan
Given that both were pre-Covid there was definely a huge gap between then and now. Enough to fully close the margins? Probably not, but I think the game will have a longer tail (since consensus was that XV was a very flawed game) and more western sales. Since it skipped XV's decade of development hell its also certain to be more profitable, for those who care about that.
If you prefer you can say that go for that. 2DS/3DS games had longer lives in the charts than PS3/PS4/Wii/Wii U, so I tend to say portable games.
Most the games that have longer legs are portable in Japan. Outside of a few Square Enix games and NES Mario “most” the best selling games of all time in Japan are portable. Portables are preferred.
I would describe it as a very franchise based market, and its also sort of disingenuous to call them "Square-Enix" games since almost all were from when Square and Enix were different companies. Japan might be a great game-making nation but they are downright embarrassing as game buyers.
Tbh for Square Enix, I meant both separately and together. FF and Dragon Quests games.
FF7 and FF8 I think And I believe Dragon Quest 8 are the only ones in the top 10/20 Japan Chart of all time. DQ8 was published by Square Enix. But maybe it was Dragon Quest 6 Which was Enix. So Im not sure.
As they are the only non portable games on the top 10/20 list outside of Nes Mario.
Agreed lol
Genki is a hardcore Nintendo fanboy and his Japanese isn’t that good, he regularly messes up translations which leads to him constantly spreading misinformation.
Was Wii Sports really not on it? I guess its really hard to chart with Pokemon clogging the list up so thoroughly.
That's the theory, yes, but unless there is data (even circumstantial) to validate it, then it can only work as a theory.
An equally valid theory is that most of those PS5s are in Japan but users are buying digitally and/or subbing to PS+ for backlog access digitally instead. That would work just as well to explain sales results we see on Famitsu and MediaCreate.
Also from what I've heard, sites like Amazon Japan are not counted/tracked by Famitsu or MediaCreate, ,but I could be wrong on that.
No, he posts more about Nintendo and even though he does talk about PlayStation a lot, its rarely objective.
Nope, take a look again. He's hardcore PlayStation fan, he posted more about PlayStation than Nintendo.
He's not even a real japanese? Why is it so hard to find any info from there. So many video games fans there with cellphones that speak english. Just make an account.
He's half Japanese but he's from the UK.
Japan have their own forums, they don't really care about communicating with the West and I don't blame them.
I don't know where you got hardcore PS fan from but I don't really care, regardless he's not a trustworthy source. He cares more about being the first to report something than it actually being accurate/truthful.
What theory?
PS5 is ahead PS4 in Japan for more than 620k.... that is like 17% of the 3.8m PS5 sold there.
For his theory be right more than 620k PS5 sent to Japan had to be sold outside Japan.
I mean the difference in usebase in Japan already put these theories in the trash.
And the difference is becoming bigger and bigger... soon it will be 1 million
Call it a theory or whatever you want lol. PS5's were being scalped and exported outta Japan for quite some time. There's definitely not 3.8 million PS5's in Japan.
I'm just happy to see that Master Detective Archives: Rain Code placed no. 1 - even if it'll only be this week. Love Danganronpa and the special edition should arrive some time next week, can't wait to play it myself! I hope this will become its own series.