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2023 is the biggest year for a PlayStation home console in Japan since the PlayStation 2 back in 2005
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graywolf323
Member
that’s impressive, with 3+ months left I wonder if it’ll end up getting all the way up to the 13th spot?
RoadHazard
Gold Member
But everyone always says the Japanese don't care about home consoles anymore.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
And they haven't even released a lot of big games yet. Imagine when they start hitting.
Facts!
Woopah
Member
I'm glad we can finally put that myth to bed.
I thought the narrative was they don't like large consoles cause small apartments. Although this news would certainly crush that with the size of PS5.
Dick Jones
Gold Member
RoadHazard
Gold Member
I never understood that anyway. A console, even a large one like the PS5, isn't actually a large object. Unless you live in a literal closet, you can fit a console somewhere.
(I guess if you don't have space for a TV there's really no point though, but then the size of the console still isn't the issue.)
It never made sense to me either. I'm guessing it was the alpha-phase of recruiting evangelicals.
Thirty7ven
Banned
Takashi brain storming atm
SlimeGooGoo
Party Gooper
So, worst year of PS2 equals the best year of PS5 in Japan?
Crayon
Member
Yeah like they can't fit a TV in their phone booth apartment so they need a switch.
This is a wive's tale. You will find many itty bitty spaces in Tokyo but get out of there and living/commercial spaces have plenty of room. That aside, I did have a hotel room in Tokyo that was so small I had to throw a chair up on the bed so that I could move about and even that had plenty of room for a 5 inch wide PS5. Meanwhile the same money in Osaka (not exactly a quaint little town) gets you a big ass room.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
This is actually what's a bit worrying, because they have been releasing some of those games by now. Final Fantasy XVI and Armored Core 6 were probably two of the biggest releases for the Japanese market so far, but they don't seem to have the long-term tail in sales for Japan the way a lot of Nintendo's games do.
Which I guess points to another issue: the only games that are constant big performers with long legs in Japan are Nintendo's own tentpole IPs. Even quite a few 3P releases on Switch don't move massive numbers in Japan, despite the install base size. And, PS5 is a much more digital-oriented platform than the Switch, that's true.
Without much in the way of digital sales data though, we only have the physical charts to go by and the biggest releases do physical numbers that would look modest or even low-performing if they were on the Switch, in terms of being compared to the big releases from Nintendo on that system in Japan. Hopefully the digital is making up the difference on PS5 in that region, or maybe people are really just using it as a F2P system for Geshin Impact and stuff like that.
I think it's a valid question to bring up, without downplaying the console's success in Japan hardware-wise because it indeed is outpacing PS2 & PS3 (and PS4) there. Something a lot of haters and naysayers were trying to imply was impossible.
I think Sony may have released a couple of consoles after the PS2....So, worst year of PS2 equals the best year of PS5 in Japan?
SlimeGooGoo
Party Gooper
Japan disagrees. Except maybe for the PSP.