Playstation 5 in Japan is showing huge potential:

- Has oursold the juggernaut switch for 6 weeks
- Sold Faster to 3 million than ps3 and ps4
- Is steady outpacing ps3 and ps4 sales
- Has one of the most exciting games coming soon in Final Fantasy XVI (console seller)

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sony is paying Chinese scalpers to buy the system and then resell on the gray market. Thereby falsifying their numbers where one sale counts as two.

    Sony is more hated than EA at this point for both closing Japan Studio and thereby betraying Japan and how they’re acting in the US over the ABK deal. Nobody is in their corner and they’re going to find themselves without a user base very soon. There’s nothing a PS5 can do that an Xbox, switch, and pc can’t already do and all these platforms have much better exclusives for games

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Beautiful cope. Now take pills.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Then explain why they have less active users and low game sales despite these “record” breaking numbers

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Then explain [IESLB]
          Boom.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >”duuuude, it’s all Chinese scalpers!”
        Does anyone here actually believe this shit?

        Mindbroken

        The majority of PS5 sold in south east Asia is Japanese unit.
        You can ask Philipine, Singapore etc anons and they can confirm this.

        t. Malaysian

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Oh sure, I don't doubt that some units aren't going there but the entire region of SEA can't absorb 40k of the roughly 80k PS5 sales in Japan per week Sony is selling them at now. You guys aren't even remotely close to the first world countries in purchasing parity especially given today's economic condition and you have your own units that Sony is sending you. There is no hard evidence scalping is playing a large part in sales in Japan at the moment.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            This isn't 1996, Chang has money and there are a lot of wealthier Chang's these days.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I'm was talking about SEA, not China. But even taking them into account, there's also no reason for them to buy PS5s in any significant number when the PC market now has cheap GPUs abound and you can get an upgrade to surpass the PS5 in power for less than half the cost. 40k per week also is too high given their legal and grey market revenue is basically only exceeding a billion dollars a year in hardware and software. It's basically all of SEA put together again or less.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Sure, but were talking about SEA region here, which include Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia etc.
            My country is big enough for Sony themselves to officially launch PS5 over here, 3 months before Sony India did and we sure as hell doesn't have as big as population as India.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You were the one that brought up China. And just talking about Asia minus Japan, the demand for PS5 isn't high enough for any of the numbers to match. Again, unless there is hard evidence we have industrial scalping in the 5 digital range of consoles, which we didn't even have in first world countries, is happening weekly in Japan, the hypothesis is not in any way realistic.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                not him but you are showing your ignorance about the region. There is a lot of poor people on asia regions, but also there enough people to ensure local releases. People buy japanese version because is cheaper and also you can have access to all games.

                Is the same reason of why places like PlayAsia or Lik Sang sell great on america.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Oh sure, I don't doubt that some units aren't going there but the entire region of SEA can't absorb 40k of the roughly 80k PS5 sales in Japan per week Sony is selling them at now

            You sure? That's 700 million people. Even if you assume that only 1/4 of them are as wealthy as the average jap, that's still 150 million people to absorb 40k PS5s per week. That's not improbable.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You ignored

              I'm was talking about SEA, not China. But even taking them into account, there's also no reason for them to buy PS5s in any significant number when the PC market now has cheap GPUs abound and you can get an upgrade to surpass the PS5 in power for less than half the cost. 40k per week also is too high given their legal and grey market revenue is basically only exceeding a billion dollars a year in hardware and software. It's basically all of SEA put together again or less.

              and that breaks your entire hypothesis. Keep in mind this is all consoles, not just PS5, Switch and Xbox is in there too somewhere.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                None of that refutes anything I said. Rambling on about PCs is pointless: it's true in ANY market that you can build a decent PC for a similar price to a retail PS5, let alone a scalper's price.
                700 million people in SEA and over 80% of gamers still game on mobile, meaning it is a huge potential growth market for home consoles as the people become wealthier.

                https://www.kakuchopurei.com/2021/03/did-a-major-game-news-site-just-endorsed-ps5-scalping/

                Zeebee Manila is a Philippines retailer that resells Japanese PS5s. They buy Japanese stock, resell in Philippines to end-users AND to resellers.
                Visit their FB, it's literally full of PS5 advertisements and "proof of sales" of concluded transactions of scalped Japanese PS5s and thousands of pre-owned PS5 games. That's just one retailer in one SEA country.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Are you blind? You basically wrote a whole load of nothing with speculation ignoring the research infograph posted in the quoted post and no, no matter how you want to rearrange the figures and numbers and add whatever speculation on top, the public data on the rest of Asia minus Japan doesn't support your damn poor job of a guess that there is industrial scale scalping in the tens of thousands a week of PS5s. It's much easier to use Occam's Razor and say it's something else and that the PS5s actually did sell. But sure, keep ignoring reality, since it seems pointless with you keeping on refusing to accept that.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I ignored your infograph because it pertained only to China, not South-East Asia region.

                Games have started charting the past few weeks which is 100% related to the wider availability of the PS5.

                Of course Japanese PS5 sales have improved, because a majority of the console sales are going to Japanese consumers, but a significant minority, in excess of 20%, are exported to the SEA market.
                But Sony has apparently sold over 2.6 million PS5s in Japan vs Nintendo's 30 million Switches. Based on those numbers, they should be selling around 10% as many copies of cumulative games as Switch games, but that isn't happening.
                It's almost like the actual audience for PS5 games is much smaller than the number of consoles sold.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              No. They aren't scalping 40k a week right now. Those are mostly being bought by nips as shown by software sales going from abysmal to dreadfull.
              They were scalping 5-10k a week for over 2 years amounting to a big chunk of those 3 million

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >There is no hard evidence scalping is playing a large part in sales in Japan at the moment.
            see

            software sales comparison past 3M hardware mark

            PS4: 3.112.628 hardware
            >[PS4] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain # <ADV> {2015.09.02} - 436,347
            >[PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops III # <ACT> {2015.11.06} - 344.695
            >[PS4] Dragon Quest Heroes # <RPG> {2015.02.26} - 325.778
            >[PS4] Dark Souls III <RPG> {2016.03.24} - 307.855
            >[PS4] Grand Theft Auto V # <ACT> {2014.12.11} - 290.822
            >[PS4] Persona 5 # <RPG> {2016.09.15} - 268.320
            >[PS4] Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and Prophecy's End <RPG> {2016.05.27} - 230.153
            >[PS4] Bloodborne # <RPG> {2015.03.26} - 209.538
            >[PS4] Tales of Berseria <RPG> {2016.08.18} - 207.077
            >[PS4] Fallout 4 # <RPG> {2015.12.17} - 204.047
            >[PS4] Dragon Quest Builders: Alefgard o Fukkatsu Niseyo <ADV> {2016.01.28} - 192.961
            >[PS4] Star Wars: Battlefront # <ACT> {2015.11.19} - 182.871
            >[PS4] Uncharted 4: A Thief's End # <ADV> {2016.05.10} - 160.202
            >[PS4] The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt <RPG> {2015.05.21} - 145.856
            >[PS4] Yakuza 0 <ADV> {2015.03.12} - 144.798
            >[PS4] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 <SPT> (Konami) {2016.04.28} - 140,937
            >[PS4] Final Fantasy Type-0 HD # <RPG> {2015.03.19} - 137.640
            >[PS4] Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness <RPG> {2016.03.31} - 132.349
            >[PS4] Yakuza: Kiwami <ADV> {2016.01.21} - 131.205
            >[PS4] Yakuza: Ishin! <ADV> {2014.02.22} - 129.307
            >[PS4] Tom Clancy's The Division <RPG> {2016.03.10} - 127.832
            >[PS4] Overwatch <ACT> {2016.05.24} - 125,792
            >[PS4] Destiny # <ACT> {2014.09.11} - 119.707
            >[PS4] Battlefield: Hardline <ACT> {2015.03.19}- 112.493
            >[PS4] Battlefield 4 <ACT> {2014.02.22} - 107.282
            >[PS4] Minecraft: PlayStation 4Edition <ADV> - 105,640

            PS5: 3.057.112 hardware
            >[PS5] Gran Turismo 7 # <RCE> (SCE) {2022.03.04} - 291,649
            >[PS5] Horizon Forbidden West # <RPG> (SCE) {2022.02.18} - 151,755
            >[PS5] Elden Ring # <RPG> (From Software) {2022.02.25} – 141.741
            >[PS5] Hogwarts Legacy # <RPG> (WB Games) {2023.02.10} - 139.535

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why would you need any console if you have a pc and steam deck lmao

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I went that route as well, was tempted to get a PS5 but having a portable PC that can emulate consoles all the way up to the switch and retain your existing library is much better than something I will only power on to play one or two exclusives.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >”duuuude, it’s all Chinese scalpers!”
      Does anyone here actually believe this shit?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Just believe that millions of Japs are buying a PS5 with 0(zero) software
        Lmao

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          software has begun charting though since 2023

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            30k on release week is the best number we have seen for ps5 software. Fanboys are trying tl change the narrative without any fact backing their claims. Just the hardware numbers.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Does anyone here actually believe this shit?
        Because Famitsu data (as well as Media Create) has shown since 2021 the actual PS5 audience in Japan is pretty slim, with the amount of game units bought.

        Despite the sudden boom in PS5 HW sales, retail game units go like this in 2023:
        >Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros Games) - 139,535
        >Gran Turismo 7 (SIE) - 76,701
        >WILD HEARTS (Electronic Arts) - 39,056
        >Like a Dragon: Ishin ! (SEGA) - 35,500
        >Forspoken (Square Enix) - 35,056
        >Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty (Koei Tecmo) - 30,132
        >One Piece Odyssey (Bandai Namco) - 26,879
        >Octopath Traveler II (Square Enix) - 18,767
        >Horizon Forbidden West (SIE) - 8,870
        >The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt CE (Spike Chunsoft) - 2,901
        >Dragon ball Z Kakarot (Bandai Namco) - 1,740
        which isn't different from the previous years back when the console was labelled as "having stock issues" (Elden Ring was the first PS5 title to break into the 100k range)
        Gran Turismo 7 and Horizon Forbidden West are both part of PS5 bundles, so it inflate the numbers too.

        Final Fantasy 16 is the real test that will show once and for all the actual situation in Japan (and hopefully teach gays to not rely exclusively on hardware sales alone to judge something) and I don't frankly expect to go above 200k in its launch week.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          and then after FF16, the "its 99.9% digital" cope will keep popping up. It's dead in japan, and I'm happy that Sony will focus more on the west. GET REKT WEEBS

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Frankly I hope certain japanese publishers will stop being so hesitant to develop games on the Switch when they had no issues whatsoever with the Playstation Vita or PSP. Falcom was rather slow on the uptake and I hope Aquaplus will stop being a little b***h too.

            And it's clear the staff of many japanese game companies still struggle with HD 3D graphics in general, so it's not like the power of the PS5 will bring anything new on the table.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >muh Shitch
              It's dead. Bury it.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They're all playing Genshin and Fortnite

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Japan don't care about Fortnite.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          This is ironic considering how hard you're pretending that digital does not exist.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >physical
            over 50% of PS5 sales are digital.

            you can multiply sales by ten and the PS5 is still behind software wise

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            moron. even factoring in a scale of 10 for digital it barely amounts to 5 million sales.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The PS4 had digital games too.
            Are you somehow suggesting that the PS5 is selling ten times more digital than the PS4 did or something?
            Even if it did, that would still place it significantly behind the PS4. But it doesn't even sell ten times more digital regardless. Not even close.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Makes more sense than someone buying a console with zero (0) games does.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Considering OP lifted an image from a 3 year old Vox article and made up a bunch of BS that isn't sourced from anything, yeah. Incredible what morons on Ganker will just believe, instantly, if it confirms their console war moronation.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Ganker genuinely thought Sony would go bankrupt with the PS3, you shouldn't underestimate how moronic people are around here (yes, me included)

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Does anyone here actually believe this shit?
        It's more believable than the hardware sales being excellent all while the software sales are dogshit.
        Regular market conditions would suggest a far, far stronger correlation between the two. So whatever the cause is, something abnormal is up.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      bingtroon cope

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Mindbroken

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      china only plays on pc and android

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Sony always wins, cope

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        the playstation playerbase sure doesn't

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They get to play the best games on a relatively cheap piece of hardware for what it delivers, cope

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah but all those games run better on Xbox and PC

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Pill time

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cant even put your ‘ick on it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Since when did Japan like Japan studio, the fricking Assassins Creed Sucker Punch game did better there than any of the Studio Japan games.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Absolutely rent free. Also thinking any opinion originating from Ganker means anything.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Meds

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Source?
      Nothing?
      Your a little b***h.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >outsold switch
    frick off with your fake news
    ps5 has no games

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i showed huge potential and now i'm posting on Ganker

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sony won.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    WOW
    https://twitter.com/jodiede/status/1624025776675819520

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The absolute state, no one's literally buying it and they still get loathing about how impressive their sales are.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Jesus. Thanks for posting.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >link avatar

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Does famitsu count digital? Ps, steam and xbox have better deals than Nintendo

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Famitsu only counts physical

        Considering OP lifted an image from a 3 year old Vox article and made up a bunch of BS that isn't sourced from anything, yeah. Incredible what morons on Ganker will just believe, instantly, if it confirms their console war moronation.

        >Incredible what morons on Ganker will just believe, instantly, if it confirms their console war moronation.
        Not like anybody made some cursory investigative work like

        WOW
        https://twitter.com/jodiede/status/1624025776675819520

        Nope, that's all fake kek

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      So the same shit with ds and 3ds games?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      OH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

      AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

      THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF SNOY

      NO ONE IS BUYING PS5 WHEN IT HAS NO GAMES

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >2021

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why these gays are obsessed with hardware sales ONLY but never mention a single time software sales
    The latter didn't improve one bit yet in the last six weeks

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      https://www.frontlinejp.net/2023/02/02/top-100-best-selling-games-in-japan-2022/

      Playstation 5 – 1,030,819 (total 2,059,945)

      Nintendo Switch OLED model – 2,799,884 (lifetime total 3,572,012)
      Nintendo Switch – 1,311,752 (total 19,048,341)
      Nintendo Switch Lite – 692,910 (total 5,103,694)

      PS5 2M
      Switch 27M

      >The sales chart was dominated by the Nintendo Switch, which takes up 77 of the 100 slots for games.

      >Most multi-platform games available on both the PS4 and Switch sell better on the Switch, with the sole and thus notable exception being Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- Reunion

      >Seven PS5 games made it on to the list, more than doubling the platform’s presence from the three in 2021’s sales ranking.

      Wow! 7 games!

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    .....and most of them are collecting dust in some chink's basement...

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >outsold switch
    pretty sure people who wanted a switch would have it already

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    why do console gays ALWAYS type like crypto scammers

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >console gets its first exclusive worth actually getting the console for in 3 months

    woah gee whiz its almost like they should have done this 3 years ago.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >console gets its first exclusive worth actually getting the console for in 3 months
      It's not even a true exclusive, we know full well that it's coming to PC at some point even if Sony and SE keep trying to brush that fact under the carpet (despite revealing it themselves). The only reason to get it on PS5 is if you're impatient.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Meanwhile in reality

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    mindbroken tendies

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    PS5 is embraced as THE console to own in Japan. Not sure why this is even a discussion.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    FFXVI is so powerful it made the Japanese buy the console without buying any games for it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      lol they also all bought the more expensive disc PS5 only to download all their games. the Power of Sony marketing is unreal

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It worked on me. I feel a little dirty but the deed is done and I will be playing FFXVI on launch day. Still going to laugh at sonygroids here for having no games though.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Honestly it was working on me too but thank god they said the PC version was coming in like 6 months or something so I didnt a buy nogaems5

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They didn't confirm that at all. Even yoshida said there are no plans for a poet in 6 months

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The updated news is that a PC port will come but it might take longer than 6 months

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The PC port should be online within 6 months. It's currently undergoing preparation and will be operational within 6 months. My people will continue to report on its progress within 6 months

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >he bought a PS5
        >he thinks he is not a sonygroid
        kek

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >outselling the Switch
    It's been out for 6 years and is probably very close to it's market saturation point. It would be embarrassing if it wasn't outselling the Switch.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Well, the sales threads were so dead adamant that Sony was dead in Japan that this was the narrative. Now it's various amounts of coping but no admission of wrong on all the crackpot theories when the PS5 was able to do it for over a month that this is now the cope plus the industrial scalping theory where somehow, people think tens of thousands of PS5s are leaving Japan ever week after being sold at shops with the sales restriction placed on them still.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    PS5 is the only console that panders to the japanese, better than American garbage like the Xbox. japanese people have their pride in their own console which is why it sells so good.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why are beaners so obsessed with japs. cuck behavior.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There was a period in time where the only reason I would visit Ganker was to laugh at the goldenface sonyjack
      Can't have anything funny anymore.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >console is two and a half years old, going on three years
    >has only two games that have sold over 100k physical sales

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >physical
      over 50% of PS5 sales are digital.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        sure man

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          cope troon

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >snoy calling anyone else troon

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >snoy calling anyone else troon

            I'm really starting to believe dead internet theory. Most posts are just bots replying to other bots. What a world. I blame India

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        so the top 2 games only sold around 250k? that's according to the 50 - 60% digital ratio. are you sure it isn't 98% digital?

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    what are they playing on it?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Games in better quality than on PS4 (or PC)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Mostly F2P games, but even if we don't have the direct ranking, I find it hard to not believe at least some of the games listed in the F2P section won't be on Japan's non-existent list as well.

      https://blog.playstation.com/2023/03/10/playstation-store-february-2023s-top-downloads/

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They aren't
      It's basically just a bragging product

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    PS5 sells, but who's buying?

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sony sisters, we fly!

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I know this might be news to some people here but PS5 has a digital version which sells for 100$ less. So physical game sales even mean less when you consider that a good percentage of PS5 sales are of the digital version.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      yup

      the average consumer is skipping half price physical PS5 sales to buy full price digital games

      that makes perfect sense because it just does okay

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Implying there are no sales in PS Store

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/07/nearly-80percent-of-all-ps5-ps4-games-are-bought-digitally

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Are free to play games considered "full game software"?

          Oh wait, it doesn't state if it doesn't or not lmao I wonder why the digital ratio is so high.....

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Well this just destroyed tendie agenda.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Well this just destroyed tendie agenda.

          but everyone knows snoys don't buy games

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >buy cheaper digital PS5
      >pay infinitely more for expensive digital games
      Digital only PS5 is a scam

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      People will pay a premium for a feature they rarely use in a product. It happens all the time in stuff like appliances and cars.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      > when you consider that a good percentage of PS5 sales are of the digital version

      They aren’t, though. The digital PS5 makes up a pretty small percentage of total PS5 sales, and if you’d actually looked up the numbers instead of grasping at straws you’d know this

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >a good percentage of PS5 sales are of the digital version
      source?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      1. Digital version is sold in very small quantities.
      2. Even accounting for stupidly high (for Japan) 70% digital PS5 has worse software sales than Wii U
      3. Why isn't the phenomenon of abysmal physical game sales observed in western countries, only Japan that has the slowest digital adoption rate? It got to the point PS5 in UK has better physical software sales than in Japan

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Almost only a seventh of PS5s sold in Japan are the Digital edition. We have very explicit numbers for both variants.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't want censorstation to succeed... not in Japan... frick all those californians imposing their cultural imperialism on japanese stuff

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wasn't there supposed to be a PS5 slim coming out

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    OP is a fake bait image. Image is old as frick and he just typed some text above it, it's not even from a blog or news site.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Does the PS5 recognise any USB for the controller or is it still batshit moronic like the PS4?

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
    THE PS5 HAS NO GAMES
    YOU CAN WATCH ANY MOVIES YOU WANT
    BUT YOU WONT GET ANY GAMES FROM ME

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The time of the Switch is over, as always Sony rises and Nintendo falls it is the natural order of things.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Tendies are atheists so they don't believe in this stuff but it always come back to hit them in the face. You just can't face Sony and win. Sony is gaming.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      FRICK THE SWITCH!

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There no games... with the frick i would buy console when PC let me play far more games and even emulate nintendo. what game i miss if i do not buy the trash console?

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    what games are they playing
    i havent touched my ps5 since the last of us remake

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Even if the sales weren't inflated to hell and beyond by scalpers, which they are, the numbers are still pathetic
    Wow, it reached 3 million in a handful of months less than the wii u
    Wanna know what a successful playstation launch looks like in Japan?
    The ps2 sold over 10 millions in the same time frame, more than triple what the ps5 is doing
    Playstation is basically dead in Japan, if SE actually cared about the Japanese market they'd make ff16 a switch exclusive
    Or better yet, just make it multiplatform like dq11, I don't know how much sony is paying them but abandoning japanese sales cannot be a good business decision

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Japan was a bigger more relevant market in the PS2 era now there's way more old people and less potential sales for video games all around.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        which is amazing that Nintendo had the highest selling game of all time in japan during their switch era

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Its pretty much a guarantee that the top 10 best selling games in Japan is going to be comprised of two Game Boy games, a Famicom game, a DS game and fricking SIX Switch games once the generation ends.

          The Japanse market has never been stronger... unless you are Sony, that is. Sucks to suck!

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Splatoon 3 is already at 6.3 million? Holy shit. That's insane for a semi new IP

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >That's insane for a semi new IP
              Splatoon came out 8 years ago. Splatoon is as old now as Assassin's Creed was when it released.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            How did AC sell that many. I always thought that it's a niche franchise. Was it mostly the kung flu at work?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Old people and women. Farmville just doesn't cut it for them anymore so they all collectively moved to Animal Crossing.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              In a big way, yeah. Individual entries do very well in their niche, buy NH broke into the mainstream like most games never do. It was a perfect storm of the launch period, the social media presence, the theme, and the meme spread.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I don't think the Switch could save modern FF games.

      Japan was a bigger more relevant market in the PS2 era now there's way more old people and less potential sales for video games all around.

      >The Switch has outsold the PS2 in Japan
      >the market isn't as big as it used to be

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        which is amazing that Nintendo had the highest selling game of all time in japan during their switch era

        They consolidated their handhelds and home console into one.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          SuperFamicom 17 million sales
          Gameboy 32 million sales

          Switch 27 million sales

          Correct the market has shrunk since their handhelds are nolonger their own thing.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Game Boy Advance: 16,960,000
            >Nintendo 64: 5,540,000
            >Switch: 29,050,000

            dependent on when you get your data set

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              The N64 got creamed against the PS1 and failed to edge out Saturn

              During the 16bit era you also had PC Engine with 6 million units and Mega Drive with 3.6 million.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                correct, show's nintendo has gotten stronger than they were during the PS1 era, even when they consolidated their console and handheld

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What xbox should I get mainly for GP if I already have ps5?

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >in japan
    You don't live in japan, i don't understand your obsession with them, while sony is a Japanese business, it is also a worldwide corporation, how does Japan sales affect you, living anywhere else? I don't understand it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Weebs

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's as if crap smells like flowers there, everything Japan is immediately bumped as though it's unique to Japan and the rest of the world are mumbling baboons scraping shit off the street.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Mariobros.... We have no future. Mature gamers won.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    holy frick is this whole board literally just bots? OP's image is 3 years old at least, there's no source anywhere to anything the text says, and people don't even acknowledge it, they just keep posting the same shitty flame war garbage

    am I the last actual human being on Ganker?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes, OP image is 3 years old.
      But its still an issue in Japan, and this UK born girl recently made a coverage about it Japan.

      >https://twitter.com/jodiede/status/1624025776675819520

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Forgot pic.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's a troony

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          If she's a troony, then she need to let all troony know where she got her voice changing operation from.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            And Black

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I feel gay

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      We know average Nintendo fan

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    So why is Sony not investing in Japan?
    Where are the 10+ new Sony Japan Studios developing AAA first-party (*also on PC) games? Where is the new talent with new IPs?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      because they'd rather just drop large sums of money to square and other companies for exclusives. Remember that Forspoken was given a ton to be a PS5 exclusive, it was suppose to be one of the best New IP for Sony in japan and in the west. FF16 is next, and I bet they're already dropping bags of money for Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest.

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Has oursold the juggernaut switch for 6 weeks
    Isn't the switch a decade old at this point?

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sony and Microsofts entry into video games was the worst thing that ever happened.
    These were not companies that made most of their own software internally.
    Their solution was always just throw some more money and win the economic war.
    Nowadays that isn't enough hence the current state of gaming

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This is solely for FFXVI, I wonder if it will drop off afterwards or if the game is actually no good

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      don't worry, Sony got
      >Monster Hunter Paradise
      >Monster Hunter Paradise Expansion
      >Dragon Quest 12
      >Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth + part 3
      >Persona 6

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        do they though?
        after the recent issues at square, I don't think exclusivity is a focus

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Do japs even care about casualized nu-MH?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Based on well monster hunter rise and sun break did in Japan, there's at least 3 million sales right there for shit MH

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I don't think Hori would let his game not release on Switch. Why would he throw away like 3 to 4 million copies?

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Quality tendie cope thread. There's some real gems in this one.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      in what way?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Scalpers
        >Everyone has a Switch already, thats why it's not selling anymore
        >The Switch lifecycle is almost over, people are waiting for the next console
        >Sony is inflating the numbers
        >It's all for FF16, the numbers will drop again.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          how is it not all of that though?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          has a Switch already, thats why it's not selling anymore
          70k a week is an amazing result after 6 years. Many systems couldn't ever reach that in their peak. It's doing better than DS, the best selling console in Japan

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This thread smells like paid shills

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      snoys do it for free

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >After finally getting stock managed to outsell a console in it's 7th year thanks to pent up demand over 2 years
    >The sales are already dropping
    >Around 50% out of those 3M were scalped to China and SEA
    >The WORST software sales ever in the history of the market
    >Even with impossibly huge, 70% digital rate PS5 has worse software sales than Wii U and Vita physical only
    >Multiplats instead of selling 100k on PS4 and 20k on PS5 last year, now sell 40k on PS5 and 15k on PS4
    >Every PS5 release bombs terribly
    >FFXVI has 9x lower preorders than FFXV at the same point to release
    >By every metric we have available it looks to be the worst mainline FF launch ever. 50% drop from FFXV at best
    Great potential, indeed!

    Software sales:
    PSV {2011.12.17}
    >2011 CY {2010.12.27 - 2011.12.25} - 396.414 / 396.414
    >2012 CY {2011.12.26 - 2012.12.30} - 1.953.478 / 2.349.892
    >2013 CY {2012.12.31 - 2013.12.29} - 3.547.852 / 5.897.744

    PS5 {2020.11.12}
    >2020 CY {2019.12.30 - 2020.12.27} - 100.000 / 100.000
    >2021 CY {2020.12.28 - 2021.12.26} - 700.000 / 800.000
    >2022 CY {2021.12.27 - 2022.12.25} - 1.700.000 / 2.500.000 [Famitsu forecast*]
    *So far all Famitsu forecasts for PS5 were too optimistic. Famitsu TOP100 for 2022 had PS5 software sales at 1.100.000

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      PS5 had scalping issues right up until these past 2 months.
      Almost no one was able to buy the console in japan. But now Sony is flooding the market with PS5s so that the scalpers can't sell them anymore, and for that reason they don't want to buy them anymore.
      So there are more and more regular people just buying them.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >But now Sony is flooding the market with PS5s so that the scalpers can't sell them anymore, and for that reason they don't want to buy them anymore.
        >So there are more and more regular people just buying them.
        Lol, people are still scalping Japanese PS5s in other SEA countries. If it were Japanese consumers buying all these PS5s, where are the software sales to correspond?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Games have started charting the past few weeks which is 100% related to the wider availability of the PS5.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, that's why it's outselling Switch right now. Japanese people can freely buy it for the first time since launch. After that demand is met, it will go back down to some 30k a week.
        Like it happened with PS4

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          yeah and then spike again when ff16 comes out then maybe again when the next part of ff7r comes out, then monhun for a week or two.
          It'll be like PS4 as you say and the above will happen over the span of several months, not in a row.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ps4 discs work on ps5, digital is bigger than ever stop coping

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      > I have no mouth but I must cope

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Diglit doesn't have a mouth? I thought the pink thing was his mouth

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    local gamestop printed out paper notices saying ps5 is now in stock and my dad wants to get one so he can play a tiger woods golf game and mlb the show

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I honestly want Sony to do good in Japan so they stop being cucks and ruining video games with their American pandering.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They aren't interested in doing good in Japan. This year will be another year of decline for the brand

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    6 weeks vs the 100+ weeks the Switch has been wiping the floor with the ponystation, LMAO

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Try 300+ kek. Snoys are hard coping with the reality that China is getting those sales numbers and not Japan.

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah I was ready to buy PS5 when it launched but its not been in stock in my country since launch so its dead to me

    Scalpers and people who buy from them deserve eternal torture

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw shitting on snoys on the daily but will also be guilty of playing XVI on launch day
    Never felt so cucked in life

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's okay. As a tendie even I bought the PS5. You can't win against Snoy.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      me but i bought switch for xeno series

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You could easily emulate switch games anon. Can't say the same for snoy ones.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          that was during xeno2 release. didnt have a built pc at the time

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Can't say the same for snoy ones.
          I can watch TLOU and gow just fine on youtube

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            You can do that with fire emblem and xenoblade too

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              they're actually games tho. the types that take hundreds of hours to do all the content. same with yakuza really

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          can't emulate that which doesn't exist

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          and there's a reason for that. that isn't any demand to emulate snoy consoles since they have no games

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Stop living in Ganker and just enjoy videogames moron
      I swear consolewar culture has damaged schizos to the point of no return

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    yeah but WHERE ARE THE FRICKING GAMES?

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >WOW (fire emoji)
    Why does Twitter gays have to talk like massive morons all the time?
    Also if hardware sales are that good how comes we can't see the same with Famitsu software sales?

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Sony is paying Chinese scalpers to buy the system and then resell on the gray market. Thereby falsifying their numbers where one sale counts as two.

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    software sales comparison past 3M hardware mark

    PS4: 3.112.628 hardware
    >[PS4] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain # <ADV> {2015.09.02} - 436,347
    >[PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops III # <ACT> {2015.11.06} - 344.695
    >[PS4] Dragon Quest Heroes # <RPG> {2015.02.26} - 325.778
    >[PS4] Dark Souls III <RPG> {2016.03.24} - 307.855
    >[PS4] Grand Theft Auto V # <ACT> {2014.12.11} - 290.822
    >[PS4] Persona 5 # <RPG> {2016.09.15} - 268.320
    >[PS4] Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and Prophecy's End <RPG> {2016.05.27} - 230.153
    >[PS4] Bloodborne # <RPG> {2015.03.26} - 209.538
    >[PS4] Tales of Berseria <RPG> {2016.08.18} - 207.077
    >[PS4] Fallout 4 # <RPG> {2015.12.17} - 204.047
    >[PS4] Dragon Quest Builders: Alefgard o Fukkatsu Niseyo <ADV> {2016.01.28} - 192.961
    >[PS4] Star Wars: Battlefront # <ACT> {2015.11.19} - 182.871
    >[PS4] Uncharted 4: A Thief's End # <ADV> {2016.05.10} - 160.202
    >[PS4] The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt <RPG> {2015.05.21} - 145.856
    >[PS4] Yakuza 0 <ADV> {2015.03.12} - 144.798
    >[PS4] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 <SPT> (Konami) {2016.04.28} - 140,937
    >[PS4] Final Fantasy Type-0 HD # <RPG> {2015.03.19} - 137.640
    >[PS4] Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness <RPG> {2016.03.31} - 132.349
    >[PS4] Yakuza: Kiwami <ADV> {2016.01.21} - 131.205
    >[PS4] Yakuza: Ishin! <ADV> {2014.02.22} - 129.307
    >[PS4] Tom Clancy's The Division <RPG> {2016.03.10} - 127.832
    >[PS4] Overwatch <ACT> {2016.05.24} - 125,792
    >[PS4] Destiny # <ACT> {2014.09.11} - 119.707
    >[PS4] Battlefield: Hardline <ACT> {2015.03.19}- 112.493
    >[PS4] Battlefield 4 <ACT> {2014.02.22} - 107.282
    >[PS4] Minecraft: PlayStation 4Edition <ADV> - 105,640

    PS5: 3.057.112 hardware
    >[PS5] Gran Turismo 7 # <RCE> (SCE) {2022.03.04} - 291,649
    >[PS5] Horizon Forbidden West # <RPG> (SCE) {2022.02.18} - 151,755
    >[PS5] Elden Ring # <RPG> (From Software) {2022.02.25} – 141.741
    >[PS5] Hogwarts Legacy # <RPG> (WB Games) {2023.02.10} - 139.535

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Thanks to Earth Defence Force 6 which sold 50k digitally on PS5 in Japan in 2022, we can now ascertain that all games below it sold less than 50k.
      Digital sales on PS5 are even worse than physical sales in Japan.

      so let me understand this. the console is selling better than the PS4 but it sold WAY less software for some reason. why is that?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      jesus frick
      what a dead console generation

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    A number of those sales are actually russian gray market sales

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    but where are the games

  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    thats whas said since thece start
    - Has one of the most exciting games coming soon in Final Fantasy XVI (console seller)

  56. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    if sony is doing so great why boycott ABK deal? are they maybe hypocrites?

  57. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >in Japan

    The bigeest markets are USA and europe stupid.

  58. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  59. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  60. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ps5 sales are all due because after Sony switched the X and O button the majority of Japanese players could not adjust since they have such a strong allocation for X being cancel that most games are unplayable to them.

    Ps5 is literally being supported by scalpers and that in-depth report by Jody proves that Sony is literally an emperor with no clothes. It’s very likely that Sony is goi g to have an Enron grade scandal in the future because none of the numbers we have add up to why they’re beating Nintendo. Sony is based in California who are notorious for business white collar scandals. Japan is too culturally pure to ever have such a thing happen

  61. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    PS5 outselling a 6 year old Fischer price tablet, WOW!

  62. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >most exciting games coming soon in Final Fantasy XVI

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Once square files for chapter 11 it’s likely Nintendo will buy them just for Dragon Quest since it’s too culturally important for Japan and Nintendo understands this.

      16 is a Hail Mary for the company to save it from financial ruin. There’s no games that can keep it going. But under Nintendo Square would be forced to run a tight ship and would only be able to ship a game once it’s finished because that’s how Nintendo treats all the companies that work under it. No more of these day zero patches and square would be forced to optimize which means less focus ob graphics and more on gameplay as well as not charging $70 anymore so games will be cheaper too

  63. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why would I even buy a PS5? Or whatever the Xbox equivalent is? Are there any good games this generation? It's just shitty fps, battle royales and woke shit that flops.

    Can anyone honestly tell me what this new generation brings?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Well when the last generation began nobody thought there was a reason to get a ps4 over a ps3 because that also had no games

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Can anyone honestly tell me what this new generation brings?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The best thing about this new generation is the haptics on the Ps5 controllers and the PSVR2

        If you don't care about immersion there's nothing good in gaming since the Ps3

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Well let's say you can't afford a good pc and you aren't into Nintendo games or playing on 720p. You don't want an Xbox because it doesn't offer much.
      PS5 doesn't have its own games but it has critically acclaimed franchises like final fantasy, God of War and spider man so you're able to play them on Release immediately but it can play any ps4 game + every other 3rd party game like NBA, fifa, cod 4k with stable 60 fps.
      So yeah its just that. It's the best console you can get if you want a pc performance without buying one and the games will come eventually and until then you play the games you would play on pc if you had one.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >You don't want an Xbox because it doesn't offer much.
        and neither does the PS5

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It offers better performance and has critically acclaimed franchises that will keep coming out.
          Xbox had halo and it killed it. What other titles does the Xbox have that are equal to god of war, last of us or spider man?
          Hell soon they are going to star a franchise out of wolverine too.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >better performance
            no, games on playstation are more blurry to perform the same
            >critically acclaimed franchises
            they're all shit
            >wolverine
            capeshit is called capeshit for a reason

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >You don't want an Xbox because it doesn't offer much.
        ???
        They're both glorified multiplat machines at this point.

  64. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I went to the store today and Sony is being replaced by lg and samsung in latam

  65. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    https://www.frontlinejp.net/2023/02/02/top-100-best-selling-games-in-japan-2022/

    Playstation 5 – 1,030,819 (total 2,059,945)

    Nintendo Switch OLED model – 2,799,884 (lifetime total 3,572,012)
    Nintendo Switch – 1,311,752 (total 19,048,341)
    Nintendo Switch Lite – 692,910 (total 5,103,694)

    PS5 2M
    Switch 27M

  66. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Thanks to Earth Defence Force 6 which sold 50k digitally on PS5 in Japan in 2022, we can now ascertain that all games below it sold less than 50k.
    Digital sales on PS5 are even worse than physical sales in Japan.

  67. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >been seeing everything from "PS5 is underperforming" to "PS5 is destroying the competition"
    >from multiple sources and forums
    Is this one of those cases where lukewarm sales causes coping from both sides? How is it selling, really?

  68. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ....oooor is it just scalpers scalping the f*ck out of this thing the same way they did the Wii U when it was launched out there?

  69. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Out of all my friends/family/colleague I cannot name a single person who bought or is thinking about buying a PS5
    Who the frick buy these?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Who the frick buy these?
      In your shithole country, I doubt you and your family can buy much of anything besides monkey soup and mud cookies.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's funny because playstation panders to poors

  70. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What the frick they play?

  71. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    famitsu threads are notably slower, it's hilarious how biased this board is against playstation

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >famitsu threads are notably slower
      not really. eric is in full defense mode and is constantly spamming them to bump limit

  72. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ATTENTION

    We had daily sales threads about how the PS4 is winning the copnsole generation between 2014 and 2019

    Since the Sweitch started selling betetr than the PS4 and PS5 we didnt have sales threads at all.
    No famitsu threads.
    No VG Charts
    Nothing

    Now the Playstation 5 is suddenly increasing sales Sinyggros come back with sales threads

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That are so desperate for people to like their shitty console. Why?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Look who it is, all of the mentally ill spammers must be here today.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, I'm mentally ill

  73. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I’m old enough to remember when a claimed reason as to why Japan wouldn’t buy the original Xbox was due to its size

  74. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >- Has oursold the juggernaut switch for 6 weeks
    Being the best selling for 6 weeks is "WOW FIRE", but being the best selling system for 300 weeks is not?
    Why are snoys like this?

  75. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    3 year old console should be already manifested greatness, not "potential"

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