Line Research - Japanese Console Ownership
Here's an interesting research by "Line" - a popular messenger service in Japan over 5M high school students on what game systems do they have in their home. The article that I came across was about a month ago. (Oct 2020)
3DS being #1, Wii #2, Switch (not Lite ver) being #3, DS being #4, Wii U at #5. PS4 on #6, followed by Vita as #7 etc...
Other interesting thing about the games they play - as well - at least 80%+ Nintendo games.
Many kids consider Playstation as old-man console in Japan, the ones who's holding onto their youth in early-mid Heisei years. That doesn’t bode well for both Sony and to certain degree, Microsoft which Xbox has almost nil recognition in mainstream market. It's like young kids think of Facebook as old people's SNS, where as Nintendo always held onto their market.
And thus it's understandable that Sony is focusing on the West where it's still growing. Some of the responses regarding PS in Japan was little surprising: The idea that Kids would grow out of Nintendo to more mature PS as they get older... is really proven false in this case, at least in Japanese market.
Seeing the data that PS5 sold 118k, and MS sold 21k, touting how well they are doing in whatever means necessary... TBH, it’s like seeing a network TV rating competition analysis. All of them are tanking YOY, yet they each claim #1 show in the time slot! To me it sounds like "oh, my ship is sinking slower than yours" measurement...