Xbox Series X|S Has Outsold PS5 In Japan Again

@ceelogreen94: Not for the better. Japan prefers to not manufacture in China, hence, Sony's woes.

@naryanrobinson: Although you do have a point, you also don't. Yes, it's just a week, and just the second week for the whole year, but it's not "an arbitrary 7-day period", sales are always measured in units per week, month, quarter and year. Yes, the Series S is cheaper than the PS5, but both the Series S and the Series X, individually, beat the PS5 (3000 PS5, 3200 XSX and 3400 XSS) during this specific week. And yes, the audience is technically finite, but everyone knows this gen consoles are constrained by supply, and there is a huge unserved demand. Not to mention "sales dropping to zero" has literally never happened before new generations are launched.

@naryanrobinson: I agree with you, but regarding point #2 I'd add that it was the norm during the previous generation to compare sales even though the PS4 was way cheaper than the OG Xbox One and it is sad to see this trend has carried over to this generation

@joejoe1639: You would also have to ignore that PS sales are dramatically down because Japanese gamers are not focused on buying consoles period. Japanese gamers have transitioned to mobile. Sony could easily put more consoles into the Japanese market, definitely more than few thousand they are selling weekly if they wanted to (i.e. they put almost 5 x that in the US, 6 x that in EU) but Sony doesn't because demand is really not there, it is elsewhere. You could see it happening last gen as well. In Japan Nintendo is cleaning Sony's clock and that isn't going to change. The Switch is the go-to machine because of its portability. Mobile (i.e. phones) are the real gaming rage not big devices stuck attached to a TV. And that won't' change no matter if PS starts to flood the Japanese market or not. If that happens it just be a glut of PS devices. Sony knows this, that is why they have become increasingly Western focused over recent years. Microsoft also knows that is why they have built out their cloud services in the region to support that mobile gaming lifestyle that is now so prevalent in Asia.

Another reason Sony is focused on the West (besides being where they really make their money and lack of Japanese interest in consoles) is that Xbox Series is not Xbox One. This is not going to be a 2+ to 1 gen. Sony is looking at a very close gen on hardware sales and very tough MS to beat on other endpoints (i.e PC, streaming, mobile). Xbox has beaten PS regularly in the US this year and is often very close monthly in the EU. You don't see a large sales gap between the two, no matter who puts more on the shelves. The fact is the only reason Sony has a 4 million lead is because they put more on the shelves at the start of the gen because PS5 started production 3+ months earlier than the Series. That gave them millions more to sell in the first quarter. Then MS/Xbox took the time from April to August of 2021 to convert Xcloud blades from Xbox One S to Series X. That took millions of SX APUs away from consumer devices during that time. As soon as Microsoft finished their Xcloud update they then upped Series S production and all the Series X APUs made were put into consoles. Which started to affect overall monthly sale numbers as we started to see happen around December '21 and has continued onward from there.

At some point soon if Sony is planning to have a competitive cloud service, they too will have to take PS5 APUs (and other parts) away from consumer devices to build out those cloud servers. Especially with PS Now 2.0 (PS+ Premium) now being touted. I can't see them waiting another year or two to do it. Especially as PS5 only games start becoming more prevalent by both first-party and third-party. They won't be able to offer a streaming option for PS5 games without updating those servers. It is not a short process (i.e. 6+ months). And the chip shortage is more than likely going to go on until sometime 2024. So, it will affect PS console output just like it did Xbox in 2021.

@joejoe1639: which is literally what the second paragraph states =P

@davidb50100: Honestly, that's how it's starting to look these days. You're either a western gamer and should go PC, or you're a handheld gamer and should go Nintendo (or mobile, if you're crazy). I actually predicted it would be traditional console gaming that would go extinct.

@Barighm: Not true the X is a little harder to find but they are out there. In this case this is Just Microsoft outdoing Sony in every way possible right now. Sony was late to the game as usual when it comes to catching up with the times and trends of what gamers what going forward as Microsoft has been showing gamers the possibilities of what gaming can be with Game Pass. No wants to buy a $70 game with no replay value or a game that might be just be ok these days, when they can pay $15.00 dollars and have day and date games when they drop and never have to worry about spending money on a bad exclusive.

@Mraou: Most of their big games are western style games too at the moment. They have secured Sqaure exclusivity at the moment, but Sony Studio's itself doesn't seem to put out a lot of Japan centric games that I'm aware of.

@mooglestar: aww it’s okay you don’t have to cry we know how much it means to you for your plastic box to sell more than the other

@mooglestar: Is it only Sony having shortages?