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A thread on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board asked: “In developed countries PS5 is the mainstream choice, so why does only Japan still favor Nintendo?” The original poster cited a conversation with an overseas friend, but other posters pushed back hard, arguing that “Switch has sold 160 million units worldwide, so if anything Nintendo is the dominant one globally,” and pointing to U.S. age-bracket survey data showing that “across all age groups, Nintendo actually comes out on top.” Meanwhile, some noted that even within Japan, PS5 hardware sales rank second or third among home consoles, pushing the discussion into questioning the entire premise that “only Japan is unusual.”
What people said
If we're talking Amazon rankings, the US isn't doing that great either…
US Amazon ranking's pretty low too — is this really a game launching in November?
"Lately I've been totally hooked on Elden Ring on Switch 2 — perfect for short bursts of free time.
I love how you can't progress unless you actually get better yourself, kind of like weight training.
Other games just bore me. I end up thinking, this is just tracing through a story, just watching cutscenes, I don't even need to be the one playing it."
Apparently that's why a bunch of turncoat anti-Nintendo trolls overseas are going wild right now — just recently PS5 games reportedly started running on PC without needing an emulator
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Switch 2's weak sauce — PS5's crushing it
That survey's limited to ages 18-69.
Across all ages, Nintendo would top it
Say what you want, but it's still a country where PS5 sells 2nd or 3rd best
Thanks for the reply confirming it lost to Nintendo
Every country except Japan
Xbox, huh… might not be a bad cash-cow move to pay Nagoshi and get him to revive something for it
There's also his ties to SEGA to consider, so Nagoshi's probably a tough ask lol
By that logic, the "Buhitch" (a derisive nickname for the underpowered Switch) is a bust since it's too weak to even properly run a soccer game
Or you could just say Nintendo's first-party titles aren't as popular there
Though Sony's own games don't sell as well
CoD isn't a Sony game though — it belongs to Microsoft
Microsoft? Oh, the one that pulled out of the market? Sony's taking over, so rest in peace
CoD still isn't Sony's, though. Sony just embarrassed itself trying to block Microsoft's acquisition. Figured I'd educate you since you clearly didn't know
Even as a joke, that wasn't funny
Background and Key Points of This Debate
The argument over “global unit sales” between Nintendo and Sony is a recurring staple topic on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry board. The Switch family has sold over 160 million units worldwide cumulatively, putting it well ahead of PS5 in raw shipment numbers. On the other hand, posters pointed out that PS5 ranks near the top of the home console market in North America and Europe, and that results shift depending on which age bracket a given survey covers. The disagreement comes down to which metric is used to measure “dominance” — hardware units sold, software sales performance, or surveys of specific age groups — since the “leader” changes depending on the yardstick used. Some in the thread speculated that one reason for PS5’s weak sales in Japan is that “buying the hardware leaves less money to spend on games,” but this remains an anecdotal impression rather than a claim backed by hard figures. Readers should note that this kind of international comparison is highly sensitive to the survey year and age range of the source data, and that judging “dominance” or “weakness” from a handful of images or numbers alone is premature.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry) thread “Why does only Japan still favor Nintendo when PS5 reigns supreme in every other developed country????“
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