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[Sojiro]

I just have to say, Pikmin 4 being 3rd and selling as well as it has brings a damn tear to my eye. The game is fucking fantastic and deserves every sale it gets.

 

[Fake]

I just have to say, Pikmin 4 being 3rd and selling as well as it has brings a damn tear to my eye. The game is fucking fantastic and deserves every sale it gets.

Kudos to Nintendo for giving this franchise another shot.

 

[twilo99]

Nintendo really knew what they were doing when they made the Switch.

They clearly noticed the trend of people playing games on the go, on their phones, so decided to make a console that could double as a home and mobile device.

Makes me think that Switch 2 will actually be a bigger hit than the first.

The company that made the Gameboy? Yes, they know a thing or two about mobile gaming…

 

[F0rneus]

Tears of Glue Stuff Together Until Something Works (If All Fails, Just Build A Mecha Or A Rocket Dildo)

 

[Celcius]

I’m browsing this thread between Splatoon 3 matches and I’m not surprised to see Nintendo dominating. I can’t wait to see what they do with more powerful hardware.

 

[Bernardougf]

Exactly. There was a new and genuine final fantasy game after FF15?

Is cute that you think FF15 was a genuine FF game ....

 

[Celine]

First time a mainline Final Fantasy miss the annual top 10 best selling games at retail during the launch year.

 

[DenchDeckard]

I didn't even think about that. I guess final fantasy xvi performed poorly in Japan?

 

[Celine]

Dumb...

NSW has a userbase of 31M. Its best-selling game for the year sold about 2M. Thats around 7% of its entire user base.

PS5 has an install base of 4.9M. 7% of that is ~400k. Why should you expect the PS5 to be selling at over 3-4x the rate that NSW sells games in relation to their respective install bases? Cause that is what it would have to do to make the top 10. Even if the PS5 best selling game sells as well as the NSW best-selling game percentage-wise in relation to their install base, that game on the pS5 will still not break 400K sales.

Install base (it would be more correct talking about the momentum of a console) helps achieving the full sales potential of a game however the sales potential is inherent of a game, it doesn't translate proportionally to the install base of a console.
So in 2017 when Switch just launched and install base was lower than 3DS and PS4, 4 out 10 of the best selling games in Japan for the year were for Switch.
Taking a more drastic example, in 2015 2 out 10 of the best selling games in Japan that year were for a failure like WiiU which always had a small install base.
People buy in droves what they really want to play, not just what happened to be on the console they own as if the game itself doesn't matter.
If a hit software happens to be on a low install base console then it will drive the console adoption and even if the momentum of a system is beyond repairing (like WiiU) it will anyway max out the reach within the small install base (high attach rate).

Top 10 best selling games at retail in Japan during 2017:

Top 10 best selling games at retail in Japan during 2015:

 

[Woopah]

I didn't even think about that. I guess final fantasy xvi performed poorly in Japan?

I think the best way to describe it is that it did not so great for a Final Fantasy game, but pretty well for a PS5 game.

 

[Celine]

But some software numbers for PlayStation in Japan would be a constructive addition to the conversation.

In 2023 PS5 annual software sales at retail exceeded for the first time the PS4 annual sales.
This is due to a combination of strong increase YoY of PS5 software sales and a sharp decline YoY of PS4 software.
Overall I expect 2023 to have been roughly on par with 2022 for the PlayStation ecosystem (PS5 gains YoY were mostly eat by PS4 losses) which isn't good because 2022 was a record low for physical software sales in Japan for the PlayStation ecosystem.
Switch physical software sales saw a decline YoY during 2023 (2022 was NSW peak year in term of physical software sales), still it remains by leaps and bounds higher than the PlayStation ecosystem.