It's no secret that Nintendo has dominated the Japanese console market over the last decade or so, but contrary to somewhat popular opinion, the PS5 has found some success in Sony's homeland.
The current-gen system has actually done fairly well for itself considering its initial stock shortages and subsequent price hikes, to the point where it's now topped 7 million total sales.
The base model, the all-digital model, and the PS5 Pro all count towards that figure.
This means that the console has managed to shift roughly 1 million units in the past 12 months, as it reached 6 million sales in September 2024. Not what you'd call outwardly impressive, but the system's been selling at a steady pace.
And again, this is taking the latest price increase into account, which came into effect last September, and appeared to pretty much tank sales for a number of weeks.
For comparison, the PS4's lifetime sales sit somewhere between 8 and 9 million in Japan. If the PS5 can match that over the next couple of years, then it'll have done decently.
Of course, it'll be very interesting to see what Sony's strategy is for the PS6, and whether the company commits to a bigger push in Japan.
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