PS5 Sales Continue Upward Trajectory in Japan Following Stock Improvements

Nature is healing

Amazes me Switch still sells loads, surely most of Japan have one now lol

Good to see the stock shortages starting to improve. Plenty of people still want a next gen console. I hope everyone who waited can now have a chance at getting one. I got lucky and my friend saw a Series X at Target in January 2021 and bought it for me and i paid him back retail and a six pack of beer for his troubles. PS5 i got around 6-7 months after launch at Target again, only online this time. I got lucky, there was no skill at all getting both my next Gen’s. Truth told i had a harder time finding the black digital plates for my PS5 than the console itself haha

Now it just needs some Japanese exclusive mega hits to get more sales in the software, I reckon an exclusive monster hunter, dragon quest or Persona 6 would do nicely.

I see Xbox seems to be Xboxing along.

Its fun seeing the Xbox doing so well.

@TripleKing333 you joking right lol.

@TripleKing333 Having all consoles do well spurs competition and makes it better for all gamers. Japan has always been a tough market to crack for Xbox but this generation they are doing the best with the success of the Series S despite the latest sales numbers. No need to pump internet muscles here.

@cburg This is literally the most successful Xbox has been in Japan right? That’s what I’m referring to.

@cburg 300k+ xbox series x/s console sold compare to ps5 2 million+ consoles sold isn’t good no matter how you spin it lol 😂. Japanese gamers about to buy more ps5’s and less xbox’s now that the stock storage is over and with all the Japanese/Asian ps5 exclusives coming next year.

@4kgk2 I am not trying to spin. As I said the Xbox brand has always had a hard time breaking into the Japanese market as Nintendo and Sony are so dominant. Is it not a good thing for gamers when all consoles are successful? I think it is.

@4kgk2 No American product does well in Japan if there is a Japanese competitor. It’s not in their way, which is fine. Nintendo is far and away the leader of Japan now and they might not give that back to Sony for a long long time if they Make a Switch 2 and make it BC.

If Sony wants to leave a mark in Japan they need to acquire square enix, to me it seems like it’s going to happen next year but this is what I see as a way to turn the Japanese market around

@cburg I agree, but it falls on deaf ears here. It is the most successful Xbox generation in Japan ever. No small feat, really - even if it is a small gain.

@GamingFan4Lyf not yet it's not, the 360 sold 1.6 million in Japan. If the series S/X continue with these low numbers every week then they won't even reach 500k.

@Jdduhd, PS already gets the biggest SE games, so I don't see how purchasing them would change their fortunes in the region.

They could theoretically keep their games off Xbox, but MS isn't really a threat in Japan anyways as the chart shows (and would look kinda crappy after how much a stink they're raising over the whole ActiBlizz scenario for the same fear).

As for Nintendo, they either don't get the biggest SE games (the main FFVII Remake titles, FFXVI, Stranger of Paradise, Star Ocean: the Divine Force, & Valkyrie Elysium all skipped, or are skipping them), get them years later (Nier Automata), or are cloud versions (the KH games). Now they do get a lot of smaller budget titles (the Octopath Traveller games, Triangle Strategy, Chocobo Racing, Harvestella, remasters like Crisis Core & the FF Pixel Remasters), and while a lot of these titles are quality, most still already release on PS and keeping them exclusive probably wouldn't have that much of a positive effect on PS sales.

@RR529 square enix is a way smaller company than Activision and they’re games sell poorly on Xbox. Sony should get square enix before Microsoft try get them after this Activision deal official get block. Sony can keep the smaller square enix games on Nintendo Switch and make the big games time exclusive to take full advantage of ps5 without keep paying square enix for deals.

@cburg ps2 and ps4 did exceptionally well without much competition. Conversely, competition with xbox led to all the recent MS acquisitions.

Remember when xbox sold 10 more copies when PS stock was bad and they sold consoles for $100? Now the PS4 is outselling them

@4kgk2 Sony and Nintendo would both be on the warpath if they tried to acquire square. Not to mention the legal hoops they’d have to hop over concerning the Asian market (look how hard they’re fighting for Activision Blizzard).

I also don’t think that Sony should buy them. Why do it? They have a very strong relationship and do exclusive deals for their biggest games. It’s unnecessary imo

@UltimateOtaku91 Ah, well okay, then.

@Enriesto Nintendo acquiring square enix? No, I believe Sony would be the most likely to actually pull it off as they have the financial resources and can make a case on how it wouldn’t be that big of a deal as big SE games are already exclusive to the PlayStation brand thus acquiring them won’t change anything, and then once they do it they can make other huge games exclusive to the PS brand like the Nintendo holy grail that is Dragon quest

@4kgk2 I don't believe SE would ever sell to Xbox and even if they wanted to a Japanese government would make it extremely difficult to aquire.

@Green-Bandit Yet the iPhone seems to find massive success in Japan. Maybe it has nothing to do with Xbox being an American company, and more so to do with Xbox having nothing of value to offer.

@AverageGamer iPhone is probably the only product i can think of that has worldwide success, maybe windows cause you have no choice. You aren’t wrong, but iPhone is the exception and not the rule. Japan isn’t interested in western type games from xbox, unless Xbox made a strong case with publishers there, they simply don’t have the type of games Japan wants and Japan isn’t rushing to support non Japanese products. However in the USA, Series X and PS5 are neck and neck, even with how badly the Xbox One preformed worldwide compared to PS4, the USA numbers were fairly close. However all 3 consoles are doing well this gen, we shouldn’t see the Wii-u or xbox one numbers for any of the big 3 and that is good for us gamers. I own all 3 and want them all to be the best they can.

@Jdduhd the op I was commenting on was suggesting Microsoft would try to acquire square if the AB deal failed. Because Nintendo and Sony are so much more involved in their products (and their success), they would be extremely hawkish against competition trying to buy them out. They wouldn’t have a chance, so my point I suppose was that there’s no need for Sony to buy them as a pre-emptive measure against Microsoft.

I do agree that Sony would be more likely to purchase them than Nintendo, but I don’t think they ever will. I wouldn’t want them to either, as I don’t think consolidating an entity that big is good for most game consumers (I obviously feel the same way about the ongoing acquisition). But, it’s been a wild year with the AB situation… anything’s possible!

Still waiting for my Amazon PS5 invite…

There must be stock improvements if I've got one finally! I have been searching since launch day with no success until i discovered an app called hotstock. It alerts you whenever any store online gets them available. I got a ping on my phone within days of downloading the app and now I'm the proud owner of a PS5! It cost me over 600 dollars but hey it beats those scalper prices on ebay!

Seriously everyone try that app! Just download it from the play store, set up your account and wait. It's totally free!

Fantastic Xbox sales figures!