Despite the shortage of PlayStation 5 units and Xbox Series X continues not to stop, the newborn Sony home console continues to produce rather positive results on eastern soil. In the last few hours, in fact, the new sales data have shown a rather positive picture also for the next-gen branded PlayStation.
In detail, the new reports from Japan show the reaching over 70,000 units placed and sold in Japan, which shows that there are starting to be signs of recovery by the videogame giant on the front of adaptation to the great demand for hardware. This can only bode well for the advent, in terms of productions coming out in the future, of a pure next-gen, even if Sony itself competes for the eastern market with Nintendo’s hybrid console.
In fact, at 70,000 PlayStation 5s sold they are joined by 170 thousand Nintendo Switches sold, thus showing the whole world how the success of the latest Grande N console shows no signs of stopping. However, on the next-gen theme, the software side has also achieved great results: the last few weeks have also been characterized by the release of the recent Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion, which has become the best-selling title on PlayStation 5 – in recent days – in Japan.
Top ten best-selling software in Japan from December 12 to 18, 2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet reaches a total of 3,963,266 units sold with 260,784 copies sold Splatoon 3 has sold a total of 68,927 copies, thus reaching the quota of 3,566,641 total units Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion reaches a total of 156,560 units sold on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch – PS5 version sold more copies than PS4 – Nintendo Switch Sports sold 33,006 units Dragon Quest Treasures sold 31,656 units on Nintendo Switch Minecraft sold 23,343 units on Nintendo’s hybrid console Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 22,740 Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope units: 15,060 units
On the hardware front, however, we see that OLED switches continue to dominate the Japanese market with 97,909 units sold, followed by PlayStation 5 with 64,420 units and Nintendo Switch base version with 47,125 units. Here are the other positions:
Switch Lite: 28,049 units PlayStation 5 Digital Edition: 6,076 units PlayStation 4: 3,161 units Xbox Series S: 875 units News 2DS LL: 48 units Xbox Series X: 35 units
2023 will be a year of true next-gen productions, also thanks to the greater availability of consoles in markets around the world.
