Japan Sales Charts: PS5 Still Flying Off Shelves Despite Switch Software Dominance

It's going to be quiet on the software side until February, if I was Sony I would get a few bundles ready and maybe a limited edition FF7 ReBirth PS5 console for that month.

My math may be off here.

It’s 63k for PlayStation, but 64-65k for the switch?!

So how can it top the chart?

Is it really fair to announce that PS5 Persona sales performed poorly when it only sold 10,000 fewer units than the Switch version? In fact, its a pretty great result considering in the UK Persona debuted outside the top 30 games but in Japan it broke the Switch stranglehold on the top 10.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner because the sales are not consolidated but are split up and attributed to console model version.

Im glad PlayStation and Nintendo doing great in the console market 👍.

If you add all the Switch hardware together (Original, Lite, and OLED), it's actually more than the combined PlayStation 4 and 5 sales. Just wanted to add some perspective

@riceNpea Persona 5 Strikers sold 162,410 units during its first week at retail in Japan, with 115,995 and 46,415 units on the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch respectively, So yeah I'd say it sold poorly although Tactica's genre maybe quite niche and Chibi art style might not be for some. Especially as Tactica is also on the PS5 this time as well and many more switch consoles sold since, so it actually has more players to sell to than Strikers did.

Why have you combined the numbers for PS5 but not Switch?

@UltimateOtaku91 it sold poorly in relation, but the two games are different genres so it's only related in name only. It's 6th in the Japanese chart, behind the Switch version which will most likes see more sales for this type of game; we have no idea of digital sales numbers. So, it may not have sold huge numbers, but for a niche title I'd say potentially its possible that it's sold ok and assuming it's poor is just that, an assumption. I'd say its the kind of title that would attract digital sales.

Still, I get what you are saying 👍

Yeah the math is off on this one, by about 3K units in favor of Switch.

@__jamiie

the PS5 and PS5 Digital numbers are not combined. There are at 1 and 3 in the charts.

Edit: apologies Jamie, thought you meant the chart.

@riceNpea yet the author in the article states it 66k for PlayStation… clearly adding the two together. Actually adding them incorrectly as it’s approx 63k not 66k.

You can’t tally the PS sales and then not the switch sales.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner oh apologies, I thought you meant the chart. Yes, the author has a problem with maths.

@UltimateOtaku91 Just be aware as the article states that Japan charts don't take into account digital sales. So obviously it sold more than that but we don't know how much more

@PsBoxSwitchOwner

Was thinking the same.

I'm pretty sure digital sales are accounting for more and more of total software sales on PlayStation as time continues to go on. The PS5 digital only is 3rd place afterall, those consumers will have no choice but to buy digitally.

Maybe I'm reading this wrong but it's nice to see the digital selling lower than the physical disc version.

Can't let that flame die out!

Switch games perform so well at retail because there's almost no storage on the device and the majority of people don't upgrade that stuff 🙄 😒