PS5 was the top selling console in Japan this week

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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows:

PS5 – 53,256
PS5 Digital Edition – 9,652
Switch OLED – 28,787
Switch – 12,564
Switch Lite – 9,757
PS4 – 1,061
Xbox Series S – 830
Xbox Series X – 435
New 2DS LL – 64
 
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Forspoken opens at 29k

some past 'smaller' S-E games:

Dragon Quest Treasures - 140k
Traingle strategy - 87k
live a live- 71k
Valkyrie Elysium - 40k
star ocean divine wtv - 44k (27k PS4)/ 17k PS5)
Harvestella - 26k
 

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I don’t remember the last time non-portable hardware actually moved these kind of units. I don’t see gaming culture moving away from mobile in Japan overnight but it would be nice to see.
Console always had a place in Japan... not like PS2 and Wii that sold over 20m but who has that power nowdays?
PS3 and PS4 reached 10 million there that is better than most countries in the world if you compare population... probably even better than US (needs to do maths to confirm).

Portable indeed sells more but that is fine... the fact that consoles sales continue flat for like over a decade says a lot.
Exceptions like PS2 or Wii is really hard to happen.
 

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Stellar Blade might even get some traction there and of course the RE4 Remake and a few other things such as Armored Core, I hope.

But I'd love to see some more effort put into Japan.
I would also like to see them establish a stronger foothold with Japanese titles.
 
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Xbox series consoles struggling to beat ps last gen console smh! I thought Phil said Xbox was making strong gains in Japan this gen 🤡
 
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Forspoken opens at 29k

some past 'smaller' S-E games:

Dragon Quest Treasures - 140k
Traingle strategy - 87k
live a live- 71k
Valkyrie Elysium - 40k
star ocean divine wtv - 44k (27k PS4)/ 17k PS5)
Harvestella - 26k
As bad as forspoken sales are, im surprised its even that high to be honest.
 
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Seems PS5 finally managed to get a nice shipment for Japan, let's hope they continue with similar shipment volume and it isn't an isolated week.
 

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PS3 and PS4 reached 10 million there that is better than most countries in the world if you compare population... probably even better than US (needs to do maths to confirm).
Its not. PS4 sold around 35 million in the US against 333 million people (one in ten) and 10 million in Japan against 124 million people (one in twelve.) But the problem is that for third parties Xbox sales are just as important, and I'm not even going to do the math but obviously Japan's ratio is more like 1 in a 1000 brought an Xbox while the US is at nearly identical rates as the Playstation. Also, Canada exists.
 
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