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The story
A UK sales-tracking site’s platform breakdown for the Western release of Nihon Falcom’s RPG Trails in the Sky: 2nd Chapter has sparked discussion on 5ch’s hardware/industry (Geha) board. The split: Switch 2 at 72%, original Switch at 19%, and PS5 at just 9%. Posters quoted Falcom’s president, who had previously said new titles sell well on Switch and Steam while “PS5 is fading with no future,” arguing the new numbers back up that remark. Others pushed back, noting the series already skews toward a Switch-heavy fanbase, so this doesn’t necessarily prove PS5 itself is in decline.
What people said
(Sora no Kiseki the 2nd)
Switch 2 72%, Switch 19%, PS5 9%
The PS5 lineup is just too weak, man
It's just a series that already cultivated its fanbase on this particular platform selling well there—doesn't prove anything ("tanemaki," or seeding, means a publisher built up a loyal audience on a platform ahead of time)
Simply put, the customer base for this specific game got pulled almost entirely onto Switch
Kondo (Falcom President):
Right now, in terms of new-user numbers, Switch and PC (Steam) are where most of the growth is.
If we want to keep this going long-term, we need to properly release titles on those platforms too and work hard at broadening our audience.
https://ascii.jp/elem/000/004/430/4430552/
The Trails in the Sky remake was inserted specifically to win new users. Kai no Kiseki is PlayStation-exclusive, and its user decline is already obvious.
(The cause being that they limited the platform to PS)
https://twitter.com/michsuzu/status/2001560439508046122
https://twitter.com/thejimwatkins
https://twitter.com/thejimwatkins
Guess that proves the president was right
Can't really blame people for calling 9% "fading"
Yeah, now we know he wasn't just talking out of his hat—he actually had the data
Honestly, no joke, it's gonna be hell
I bet we'll see more publishers just skip releasing software on it entirely
https://www.nintendolife.com/tags/uk-charts
Wait, for real?!
lol
Re: #25
#1
EA Sports FC 27
PS5 67%, Xbox 14%, Switch 8%, PS4 6%, Switch 2 5%
Guess it must really not be selling on PS5 if it's fading that badly…
The final gap is gonna end up dozens of times over
It's already an 8x gap right now at 72% vs 9%…
That's exactly why the real-world gap ends up way bigger than it looks
Earnings shot up too once they started putting it on Switch
No wonder they want to say PS5 is fading 😭
They've gotta be regretting ever releasing it on PS5 (´・ω・｀)
If only they'd gone to Switch from the start…
This is seriously Falcom's mood right now
Too spot-on, lol
Falcom revises earnings upward
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1791360581/
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Trails in the Sky selling especially well in the West is what drove the growth
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Nearly all of Europe's sales were on Switch 2 Re: #1
No wonder the president's been singing Switch's praises
No joke, dead serious, I've never once seen a PS5 game described as a success
Re: #73
#1
EA Sports FC 27
PS5 67%, Xbox 14%, Switch 8%, PS4 6%, Switch 2 5%
Wasn't the PS-loyalist president replaced by a different one at some point?
Well, if the president changed, I guess that explains it
Still wish they'd gone down with PS though
Wasn't there that story about Falcom's president getting told by his kid "I don't even know what a PlayStation is" and realizing right then that PlayStation was done for?
lol
But honestly, outside of Geha I've never once seen PlayStation come up in conversation
If I didn't browse Geha I might be living a life where I don't even know what PlayStation is
Yeah, finding someone who actually owns a PS5 in real life is basically impossible at this point 🙄
Falcom's President Kondo took office in 2007
He's been running the company for 19 years
Wait, he hasn't changed?
What a traitor
Bit slow on the uptake to be talking business strategy, no?
Back when PS4 was still around it was probably still not as bad
#1
EA Sports FC 27
PS5 67%, Xbox 14%, Switch 8%, PS4 6%, Switch 2 5%
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
It’s worth noting that these figures come from a region-specific sales chart compiled by the UK’s Nintendo Life, not worldwide totals or digital sales — they’re limited strictly to physical retail sales in the UK. Posters in the thread also pointed to EA Sports FC 27 as a counterexample, where the same chart shows PS5 taking a 67% share. In other words, platform sales splits vary enormously by genre and fanbase, so it’s premature to read the overall fate of PS5 purely from the numbers for a Trails in the Sky series that already skews toward Switch owners. Falcom’s president’s comments, too, were made in the context of deciding where to release new titles — not as a blanket dismissal of PS5.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “Overseas Trails in the Sky: 2nd Chapter sales ratio “Switch 2 at 72%, PS5 at 9%” lol“
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