Analysts attribute the disastrous performance of the new Sony console to many factors, including the company’s attitude towards the region.
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While PlayStation Chief Executive Jim Ryan says otherwise, analyst observations have shown PlayStation 5 sales in Japan to be the worst in Sony history.
The fourth and fifth weeks of sales brought the company 11 thousand consoles sold each, while the indicators of the sixth week were already more confident – 16 thousand. The total sales of the new gaming system in the region amounted to 240 thousand units. This is very small. If this trend continues, PlayStation 5 sales in Japan will barely be half of what the PlayStation 4 shows towards the end of its life cycle.
Journalists at GamesIndustry.biz Japan associate the inconclusive performance with a number of factors, including the strange censorship of games for Japan and the change in the DualSense controller layout (the confirmation of the action was moved from “O” to “X”) to comply with international standards. The players of the land of the rising sun believe that the company is not serious about the region and began to express their attitude to this behavior with wallets.
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