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UK Q1/March 2023: PS5 half of all consoles sold in Q1, Q1: PS5 (180%+), NSW (-25%), XSX (-18%)

Hartmann said:
The UK market is smaller than I thought. 400K units in the first quarter is one month of sales in Japan.
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Its only really due to Switch/ handhelds in general being way bigger than any other market in Japan. Playstation is about as big in the UK as Japan now (obviously this last quarter in Japan is an outlier for HW sales) and Xbox is a lot bigger, with PS+XB being a much bigger market in the UK than in Japan.

For example, PS4 sold ~7.7M in the UK, XB1 ~5.7M for total ~13.4M. Japan is ~9.4M PS4, 0.1M XB1 for ~9.5M total.

Do we ever get reports on Japanese market by revenue for comparisons there?
 
So Hogwarts was the best selling game in Q1 and helped carry the quarter along. Holding to my self bet it will end up being the best seller of the whole year this pace. Incredible showing for an honestly pretty incredible title.
 
Xevross said:
Its only really due to Switch/ handhelds in general being way bigger than any other market in Japan. Playstation is about as big in the UK as Japan now (obviously this last quarter in Japan is an outlier for HW sales) and Xbox is a lot bigger, with PS+XB being a much bigger market in the UK than in Japan.

For example, PS4 sold ~7.7M in the UK, XB1 ~5.7M for total ~13.4M. Japan is ~9.4M PS4, 0.1M XB1 for ~9.5M total.
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Well, this isn't exactly fair imho
Sony or MS products sell less in Japan than UK doesn't mean Japanese market being smaller than the UK one
 
Xevross said:
Well good job I'm not claiming that to be the case.
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So I misundertood yout post, sorry
replying to @Hartmann yes, UK market IS smaller than the Japanese one (I think that as single market, Japan is the second biggest behind US, even if it is obvious that we/the industry tend to consider EU as one unique big market)
 
Xevross said:
Its only really due to Switch/ handhelds in general being way bigger than any other market in Japan. Playstation is about as big in the UK as Japan now (obviously this last quarter in Japan is an outlier for HW sales) and Xbox is a lot bigger, with PS+XB being a much bigger market in the UK than in Japan.

For example, PS4 sold ~7.7M in the UK, XB1 ~5.7M for total ~13.4M. Japan is ~9.4M PS4, 0.1M XB1 for ~9.5M total.

Do we ever get reports on Japanese market by revenue for comparisons there?
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2022 Hardware data:

RevenueUnits
USA6060M$???
Japan210B¥6,3M
Germany756M€???
UK825M£2,4M
France646M€~1,7M
 
Aostia82 said:
Well, this isn't exactly fair imho
Sony or MS products sell less in Japan than UK doesn't mean Japanese market being smaller than the UK one
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it's pedantic and I get what you mean but it's only Microsoft that sells less in Japan. Sony and Nintendo both sell more consoles in Japan.

I get why people say it because of the EU but I think it's stupid that people consider the EU one big unique market because at that point we should consider Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong to the same market as they are all similar nowadays.
 
Yep. Japan is a bigger market (compared to the UK) in general and in potential. 2nd only to the US as a single country market (if I’m not mistaken).

Very important market.
 
Xevross said:
Oh thanks for this but I was more wanting overall gaming industry revenue as that is how the size of a market is generally judged.
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The big problem for the comparaison is lack of digital software data for Japan.

The data I have from Famitsu are retail only.
 
Astral_lion02 said:
The big problem for the comparaison is lack of digital software data for Japan.

The data I have from Famitsu are retail only.
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Yeah that's fair enough I thought that would be the case, that means there is no good comparison in that regard.

Going on just HW revenue Japan was 53% bigger last year, so certainly a much bigger HW market. Of course as others pointed out Japan has a much bigger population, currently about 87% more people than the UK.

The main point is I think the original comment was a bit weird, Japan is well known to be the second biggest gaming market but the UK market is still quite big and certainly of a comparable magnitude to Japan.
 
This won't change for the next quarter.
PS5 will probably stay at 50%.

Only Switch and Xbox will reverse. Xbox with the bigger decline and Switch with a lower thanks to Zelda.
H2 should be a little bit more interesting and we'll see if Xbox and Switch can continue to compete.

Overall sales are still quite a lot down over 2021.
PS5 sold nearly 150k alone in March 2021.
 
enpleinjour said:
IMO the real shocker here is the RE split. Its 76:24 PS:XB in the UK. Globally, we could be looking at 85:15 even with digital.

That's like FF level of attachment for PS, something we haven't seen before for RE. Hard to know if its a one off situation (like the lack of XB1) or if this is a trend.



This includes digital.
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This was a surprising split. Do we know the Hogwarts split?
 
SoonyXboneUhh said:
This won't change for the next quarter.
PS5 will probably stay at 50%.

Only Switch and Xbox will reverse. Xbox with the bigger decline and Switch with a lower thanks to Zelda.
H2 should be a little bit more interesting and we'll see if Xbox and Switch can continue to compete.

Overall sales are still quite a lot down over 2021.
PS5 sold nearly 150k alone in March 2021.
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I feel Mario movie boost+ TOTK OLED have potential to lead Switch to rise vs last year but maybe i am just too optimistic lol.
 
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