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Switch Hardware achieved a 98% Marketshare in Japan last week
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Japan is a nation of billions of people, so this is expected.
Seriously though, Switch is still healthy sales-wise, so I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo is not in any rush to release a successor this year/next year.
Seriously though, Switch is still healthy sales-wise, so I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo is not in any rush to release a successor this year/next year.
100%! Everyone who bought the other systems returned them to the store.
Both PS5 and Series consoles combined were doing like 30-40k sales a week recently so I think it's something else. More likely both companies just didn't ship any consoles that week for whatever reason (could be because of Splatoon or some logistics thing).
Yup. Been the market leader for years now. Not sure why people still say Sony is.
Surely, things will get much better then once the hardware is more expensive!
Xbox ususally sells awfully in japan so its business as usual
As for playstation this is a result of a long and slow decline of the brand there
Although to be fair to both this week seems worse than usual even for them
Sold last week
For all of 2022, Switch is around 70% marketshare i think
That's not the point. Is that this past week there were no restocks because the new one with the new price was coming. These numbers are just leftovers.
I know, it's just that with the situation of the PS5 software sales being literally unprecedented in terms of awfulness, making the case by raising the price of the hardware isn't likely to reverse course.
sold last week
for Xbox, it fluctuates so I wouldn't say anything that denotes stability. with the price going up for PS5s soon, that would cause a spike in sales and Sony missing out on money, hence a smaller shipment. if shipments go back up following the price increase, I think that's a tell
Because Sony's gaming revenue is consistently higher than Nintendo's.
the PS5 is also clearly not designed with the Japanese market in mind. I'd have to go dig out the surveys but things which rarely come up in discussion on here are according to market research highly prized in the Japanese market: small size, low power draw, etc. In other words, nothing like the PS5 (or Series X, Series S though...) That's actually true of many market niches outside of Japan too. Add that to the first and third party Japanese support (outside the biggest block buster titles which themselves are now largely aimed a the global market) and you've got a recipe for what's happening.
That's enough time for about 300 more when is Switch 2 coming threads that started about 3 years ago!
From Famitsu website (thanks to Aime from IB):
So this doesn't include mobile then right?
Serious question: Why do we get so many people saying Microsoft/Sony need to do more in Japan? They need more Japanese studios, need to appeal to that market more, etc? It seems like a largely lost cause but at the same time I don't fully see why it truly matters if sales were higher elsewhere than Japan.
Is it the tradition of the area in games? The idea that they can cut into Nintendo if they put the time in? I've thought about this before but never asked. I think both companies even say things like the Japanese market is important to us.
Is it the tradition of the area in games? The idea that they can cut into Nintendo if they put the time in? I've thought about this before but never asked. I think both companies even say things like the Japanese market is important to us.
from what I'm hearing, the Deck is priced outside of most people's budget. it's an enthusiast pc gamer's device and pc hardware is already expensive in japan
whenever Nintendo pencilled in manufacturing, they can't really move from it
Japan is still one of the largest gaming markets