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On 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board, a thread about overseas Amazon best-seller rankings for game consoles took off. In Canada, the PS5 ranked 3rd and the Switch 2 ranked 7th, and replies quickly piled on with rankings from the US and UK too, revealing a split between winners and losers depending on the country. The thread also broke into arguments over the reliability of sales-estimate site VGChartz, with posters divided on which data source to trust.
Canada
PS5: 3rd
Switch 2: 7th
Source: amazon.fr / Original article here
What people said
It's dominating overseas
Maybe "Nishi-kun" (derisive 5ch nickname for Nintendo fanboys) should just stick to bragging about Japan-only sales
That's the same VGChartz that slashed its PS5 unit estimate by 40% after seeing Sony's earnings report, you know
You're citing VGChartz?
Wikipedia says it's an unreliable site whose numbers are way off from reality
And what did VGChartz say for April–June, when it got crushed by more than double the score?
This is basically its last hurrah
After this, PS is done — no big titles left in the pipeline
If it's GTA demand, shouldn't Xbox be selling well too then?
If you can already play it on PS5, why would anyone bother buying the minor platform?
Rockstar's clearly favoring the PlayStation version too — they even used PS5 footage for the trailer
The only Xbox model cheaper than PS5 is the 500GB Series S, so it's kind of a wash
The 1TB Series S is the same price as the PS5 Digital Edition
And the Series X Digital Edition is $749.99 🤮
PS is just big, that's about all it's got going for it
After the hike, sales will probably settle around 10,000 units a month
Another price hike? At that rate it won't be a price parents can casually buy for their kids anymore — and I already think it's pushing the limit as it is
Turns out the people making noise about "no disc, no buy" really were just a loud minority
I'm still playing Z-A (Pokémon Legends: Z-A), a cross-gen Switch 1/Switch 2 multiplatform release
Go play Elden Ring — you know, the one that supposedly bombed
It's basically the same price as PlayStation now
Overseas gamers only care about Western games, so unless it beats PS5 on value, it's a non-starter
What do you mean "the same price"?
PS5 Switch 2
US: $650 $500
Europe: €650 €500
The PlayStation fanboys on the Geha board seem to think PS5 is cheaper overseas too, just like it is in Japan
So it's cheaper than PS5 and it *still* doesn't sell?
It's a mystery why anyone recommended a late multiplatform port in the first place
People aren't buying it even when it's not a late port
If people were actually buying it, nobody would be saying there's not enough games
#11: PS5 (7,351 units)
#19: Switch 1 (8,847 units)
So on this "Amazon ranking" thing, a lower number actually means it's selling better? (lol)
Canada's the only place where you can check Switch 2's monthly unit count, and sure enough Switch 2 came out ahead there
Other countries aren't putting out unit numbers anymore — maybe retailers changed how they report after the price hike
Are you pretending Switch 2-exclusive games don't exist?
Doesn't any country over there have a proper tracking firm?
Spain technically has one outlet besides Famitsu that puts out decent weekly sales figures
but it's been dead all summer because of vacation season
There used to be a firm called GSD that put out fragmented hardware sales articles split between the UK and the rest of the EU, but they stopped around last year and it's been a black box ever since
Saw it coming, but PS5 looks like it could hit 100 million while Switch 2 might struggle to even reach 50 million
So does that mean PS5 is also washed up, since it's losing even to a Switch 2 that's supposedly already past its peak in the US?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/videogames
Switch 2: #8
PS5: #18
Losing even right after the price hike…
Even after the price hike, Switch 2 is still cheaper than PS5 everywhere except Japan
The only two consoles you can get cheap right now are the Switch 2 and the 500GB Xbox Series S
It's not that they stopped doing it
Chris Dring, who was putting out that data, just left
There's no way to find out anymore, so it amounts to the same thing
Or are you saying there's secret data out there showing PS actually sells more, they just haven't published it?
Walmart's daily purchase counts already show a 10x gap
Honestly Switch 2 is selling so poorly it's stuck showing "number in carts" instead of "number purchased" — that's basically over
Walmart switches from "in carts" to "purchased" once something sells enough, and Switch 2 just isn't hitting that line
PlayStation dominates Walmart so hard that it's basically always showing PS purchases — that's no reference point at all
Even in Japan, despite it being the back half of summer vacation, it's been stuck in the low 20,000s two weeks running
The UK actually favors Switch 2 even more than the US does
UK
Switch 2: #13
PS5: #43
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/videogames
Background and key points of this debate
“Amaran” (Amazon’s bestseller ranking) is shaped by stock levels and temporary sales as much as by actual unit sales, so it’s premature to crown a winner by country based on ranking position alone. VGChartz, the sales-estimate site cited in the thread, is commonly referenced overseas, but questions about its accuracy have come up repeatedly. On pricing, while Japan is abuzz over the Switch 2 price hike, several posters note that in the US and Europe, Switch 2 remains cheaper than PS5 even now — so the regional price picture doesn’t necessarily line up the same way everywhere. Few countries publish actual unit-sales figures, and most of the comparisons here rely on the indirect proxy of rankings, which is worth keeping in mind while reading this thread.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry “Geha”) thread “[Sad News] Switch 2, after its price hike, starts losing to PS5 in overseas Amazon rankings“.
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