 Hey everyone, how's it going? No, I'm not at my Normal set at the moment because my camera is set up for live streams But that's neither here nor there because we have some interesting stuff to talk about Now look I am not a PlayStation hater I think this is something that I want to state at the beginning because I feel like a lot of the videos I make on PlayStation are kind of negative And that's mostly just because this channel wasn't covering PlayStation 4 During its heyday, we are a Nintendo focused channel hence Nintendo Prime So we don't talk a lot about Sony and Xbox and all that But obviously a lot of the news lately when we do talk about Xbox is pretty positive game pass is Pretty nice, and I enjoy it and I'll be the show Day one pretty cool. I really like that. That's happening You know, I also think that a lot of the news around surrounding Sony seems to be sort of negative Although there was a nice update to you know that you can now put PlayStation 5 games on a On a different, you know storage medium You still can't use the internal storage and it was kind of a nice reminder that hey It's cool that we can do this thing that Xbox series X could do from day one But we can't you know still expand the internal storage despite there being an m.2 slot Just sitting there on the board. So I think it's a rather interesting narrative that's developing around Sony and the thing is I'm not alone in this a lot of Sony fans are also wondering if it is a time for Jim Ryan to leave And one of the big things that comes up Setting aside the games and whatever else is that they're de-emphasizing Japan Now I've heard time and time again that well, you know, they're doing really well in Japan The PlayStation 5 is sold out in Japan. Now, I own a PlayStation 5. I own a switch. I own an Xbox So I'm not trying to like show some console bias here I'm just pointing out the facts because we have the latest media create sales in and yet switch is still at top Yeah, monster hunter still dominating. We'll show you that switch is still dominating. You have the entire top 10 again That's neither here nor there. I think that that's a narrative We have talked about many times on this channel and you'll see it again here But I want to focus on PlayStation 5 because it turns out that No matter what way you slice it if you want to say well, PlayStation 5 is selling well there It's just selling out this and that though we you remember Nintendo's failed system though we you launch aligned is Spanking the PlayStation 5 in Japan remember we you as a failure PlayStation 5 is getting spanked in Sony's home country. I'm quoting home country because they move their gaming headquarters to the United States Let's just look at this because I I'm still kind of shocked Just I just look at this. Okay, so here's so here's the numbers It's come from from its easy monster rise at the top at a hundred ninety four thousand three hundred and twenty seven units Super Mario 3d world at twenty one thousand You know and and this is going to be selling out soon This is physical only so you know as many physical units as I have and then they're done a moment Momotaro continues to be that one of the best selling third-party games 2.1 million there at 12,920 for the week Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Ring Fit Adventure Minecraft Nintendo Switch version Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Animal Crossing New Horizons what doing to the Pokemon search? All right, whatever like one thing that's also clear about this and I have another video coming out is The talk about the future of physical versus digital when we're Nintendo got it right, but we'll talk about that later Moving on down the list. You'll see the hardware sales So Nintendo Switch had its natural drop-off, you know because there hasn't a major release right now We're in week three of monster to rise being on the on the charts So, you know there we're waiting on the next major game, which is new Pokemon snap by the way People don't know that comes out here this month. So All right, so you see a natural drop-off to 96,259. All right, whatever right, but here's the thing PlayStation 5 was at 20,000 7 5 5 last week. It's at 15,560 This week three weeks ago. It was at 56,000 So it had like this boost in sales at the same time monster to rise came out, which I thought was very interesting But obviously it's dropped off a cliff since that week now if PlayStation 5 is factually selling out Which my contacts in Japan are telling me they can't find it at retailers. So maybe it is factually selling out You know, I can't prove that it is but if it is selling out just like it is here in the United States and everywhere else That means that something interesting is happening here This means that with these low of sales because I guarantee you sales in the United States are much higher than this week Over week that Sony's just not giving PlayStation 5 to Japan now We know they've already reduced the the Sony Japan studio You know their game development studio there. They claim they haven't closed it that they've just restructured it But I don't think we're gonna see much coming out of that studio moving forward They just don't seem to care about smaller games Which sucks because Sony Japan made some of the best in my I mean, this is my humble opinion Some of the best Sony games came from Sony Japan. I realize that they have their big blockbusters or God of Wars They're their horizon zero dawns and all they have their big blockbusters I'm just saying from like just a creative perspective And I'm not saying those games are uncreative, but they're the expected Sony Japan always gave us the unexpected just like media molecule did with dreams so it's kind of sad to see maybe they're done with that I know some people gonna bring a bug snacks or something like that but Not really on the same level. I think I think anyone who looks at that objectively can see that So now I mentioned that the Wii U is spanking it I'm launch aligned. I wasn't aware of this because I don't this is reset era I don't really spend a lot of time on reset era, but I was scrolling down and I saw this chart. This is just comparing monster hunter Sales so monster hunter rise here's this orange one. So it's a head of world Which is the best selling monster of all time, but world is not necessarily the best selling monster of all time in Japan So it's got a ways to go if I want to catch up to some of the best selling monster hunters Which were on prior Nintendo platforms like 3ds 3ds so like 25 million in Japan. We're gonna switch out by the way Japan What were some minutes we have it at switches at 20 million so 3ds is at 24 or 5. Yeah, so I think within a year or two switch will probably end up passing 3ds It'd be like one of the best selling platforms of all time in Japan. If not the best I'll have to actually look that up But scrolling down there's this chart and I went back and looked at the Wii U Femitsu numbers And it turns out this chart is 100% accurate. Let's just let's just make this as full screen as we can here Wii U launch aligned it launched with more units. It's spiked in weeks two and three No, actually, I guess this is weeks three and four with even more units like it. It sold even better and Then it just kind of kept a steady increase in Japan This is not what we saw by the way in the entire world We did see the first two three weeks it really spiked to the world But then we you just kind of flat-lined it just kind of flat-lined it barely went up or in the rest of world But in Japan Wii U was actually doing alright And here's PlayStation 5 so you see launch it launched at way lower numbers It had a way smaller bump by week three and then it's just been kind of slowly going now I picked up a little momentum here Around week 12 where the momentum started going up a bit more and obviously there's that week 19 spike I was talking about three weeks ago where it sold 56,000 units, but it's still not really even close I mean if you look at this here's the Wii U chart spikes up Consistence land up and look at this spikes up and then kind of goes like this Look at the curve. Look at the curve. The curve is a down curve before it finally levels out But you know levels out at a pace that it was I guess at launch again. I'm sure if you draw a line here, you know, this Kind of close to a straight line versus the dip. Oh, so the point here the larger point is that obviously Wii U is spanking the hell out of PlayStation 5 in Japan To those in the know this might not be surprising. This isn't me I'm not trying to put out there that Wii U is outselling PlayStation 5 Launch aligned like worldwide. That's not even remotely close Wii U was a failure only sold 13 million units PlayStation 5 will likely outsell 13 million units in its first full year on the market So I'm not trying to argue that Wii U is a more successful platform But I am trying to just show further evidence and further proof that Sony has Literally abandoned Japan now PlayStation 4 sold 9 million units in Japan. Yes, that's not the 20 million of switch That's not the 24 million of 3ds, but 9 million is nothing to scoff at. Remember Wii U sold 13 million Worldwide PlayStation 4 massively outsold Wii U in Japan like not even close and Here we are where Sony just being like hey We're either not giving units of PlayStation 5 to Japan enough units to sell or the device is too expensive or Sony's just abandoned Japan now the Fourth process is thinking well Japan gamers just favor handheld gaming more which has always been true But Sony was able to still be successful with their consoles despite that And have a bunch of top sellers in Japan this last generation despite the 3ds despite the switch Despite occasional peaks up there from Wii U with games like on Mario Kart 8 8 Mario wasn't deluxe yet That was for switch. So I'm just a little worried at this point about Sony in general there's a general narrative being built That Jim Ryan needs to turn around and I don't know how he's gonna turn it around. I think Sony is so successful at the moment that maybe they're a little full of themselves. I It's hard to know Sony definitely is enjoying being the quote-unquote market leader. I say quote-unquote because now that they're done with PlayStation 4 Technically the best-selling system in the markets Nintendo You want to argue market leaders and I'm not trying to be biased here. This is just a fact-based statement Sony's folding on the PlayStation 5 train. They're done with PlayStation 4 I know they're still dual releasing games on both platforms because there's a big audience there But you know Sony's on their next generation, you know, the old gen's now the old gen It's now old news PlayStation 5 is new news. Well switch is still current news So technically switch is the leading platform at the moment No, I know there's all those debates over being gen 8 and gen 9 Some people think it's a gen 7 Nintendo system and factually it's a gen 8 Nintendo system But overall gaming generations. I feel like it's gen 9. It is what it is. We're not here to debate that again We already did a video on that But regardless of what generation you put it in switch is still the leading platform for Nintendo today and The best-selling platform in the video game realm today It has been the best selling platform worldwide month over month for almost two years and it's still true now It's still the best-selling platform in the United States. It's still the best selling platform in Europe overall in Europe There are certain countries that PlayStation 5 is also in switch. Yes, but overall in Europe switch is still number one and Overall in Japan obviously switches number one and it's not even close It's the territory with the biggest spanking happening. So switch right now is the market leader It's the current hottest product selling the most games In terms of Nintendo make games, of course, obviously, I think third-party games overall top sales charts across all platforms but You know not not in Japan clearly, but everywhere else. So I I'm just it sucks I can't imagine if you're like you're a Sony gamer in Japan and you've been rocking PlayStation You've been loyal to the brand for PlayStation one two three and four you got the PSP you bought the Vita You've been all in you loved that you got Monster Hunter world like finally on a powerful platform That isn't held back by Nintendo's own Own systems and all of a sudden you're like, okay Nintendo's killing it again with a hybrid handheld Home console thing. It's cool. I still want to get that I still want to play monster to rise on the go. I still have all this interest in what Nintendo's doing But man, it was really nice when I got home to plop down and play a PlayStation 4 in my pre-time and then here's Sony He's like, hey, you know what? We we killed it with PlayStation 4. We killed it in Japan We we sold almost 10 million units in Japan Here's our next system and we're not gonna provide enough units for demand and we're not really gonna incentivize you to buy it Anyways, cuz we're gonna stop really focusing on making games that appeal to the Japanese audience We don't have any future contracts locked in place with people like Capcom to get future Monster Hunter games We don't really have any plans in general to appeal to you guys that bought our system at 9 million plus clip Yeah, what do we care? We sold 100 and what 114 million or whatever PlayStation 4's only 9 million was in Japan What do we care our primary audience isn't in Japan? Yeah, Nintendo's primary audience isn't in Japan either Think about this the Nintendo 3ds one of the best-selling platforms of all time in Japan So the about 24 million, you know, maybe you want to round up the 25 fine Say 25 million, right? It sold 75 million worldwide. What does that mean? Two-thirds of Nintendo's audience for 3ds isn't in Japan, which means a majority of Nintendo's audience is international Same is true for Sony just at a smaller percentage because there is larger numbers Now you look back at the Wii days a majority of the Wii's audience That's like Nintendo's closest home console comparable system the Wii days. Hey, guess what a majority of the Nintendo's audience It was roughly 85 percent. We're outside of Japan. Oh, but but but that's that's the Wii. What about the DS? Okay, yeah, the DS guess what it was 85 percent of the audience was also outside of Japan So I'm just pointing out that yes a majority of gamers are in the rest of the world They're not in Japan. That's just a fact There's billions of people out there. Japan doesn't have billions of people within its borders. So yeah, there's factually More sales to be had in places like the United States where people have more disposable income even possibly in places like China Where there's just so many people, right? but but Sony for now at least is still a Japan company To see them de-emphasize their home Country when Nintendo's proving you could still sell 10s 20 plus million units in Japan if you focus that audience While Nintendo is still getting massive support outside of it as I said number one in the MPD for a record amount of like 23 24 straight months. They're at an all-time record right now. They survived the PlayStation 5 launch Right PlayStation 5 had the supposed record launch or whatever Yeah, guess what happened during the month of that record PlayStation 5 launch Switch was the best-selling platform Not PlayStation 5 supply constraints They had the amount of units they plan to have it launch the entire time supply constraint had nothing to do with why switch was number one Sony only plan to have that many units available now You could argue if Sony had 10 million units available at launch They would have sold 10 million maybe or there would have just been overmarket saturation. We don't know What we do notice which factually was the best-selling system in the MPD that month What we do know is that we you look at it again Spanking the hell out of PlayStation 5 in Japan now obviously I think PlayStation 5 will probably outsell we you long haul we you had a shortened lifespan all that jazz Obviously the Wii U sales do flat line at some point in Japan. I believe it happens about a year in the Wii U sales flat line But I'm just pointing out that I'm incredibly frustrated by Sony I'm incredibly frustrated by their de-emphasis of Japan some of those Japan games also came out in the US So like we get less diversity as gamers Again, I own all platforms. So for me, I have plenty of diversity in gaming between PC Nintendo Xbox You know PlayStation whatever like I have all the diversity I could ever want as a gamer, but I Know I'm in a privileged place How many of you guys own a switch? Well, they're probably a lot because we're Nintendo audience But how many of you guys own a switch and a PlayStation 5? How many you guys want to switch a PlayStation 5 and a gaming PC? Multiple gaming PCs by the way because I got my desktop That I use for video editing But is a gaming PC because video editing and gaming kind of go hand-in-hand with the hardware you need and I have a Laptop I use for school that can also game. It's got a 2060 in it. It can game all right well Now throw on top I have an Xbox Series X. So how many of you guys honestly are rocking everything right now? I'm sure we'll get a couple of comments saying oh me me me. That's great I'm glad that you have the disposable income to what I'm finding out being an all-platform holder is well I could afford to buy all the systems I can't necessarily afford to support them all game pass has made Xbox pretty easy you prepay for a year a game pass Call it good. So game pass has made it pretty easy for Xbox for To at least play some games on it, right? You're not gonna get every third-party game and all that on there PlayStation 5 70 bucks a pot It's expensive. I know PlayStation plus has been giving me some old PlayStation 4 games to enjoy but You know beyond that, you know, I bought Miles Morales the $70 version So I could have to have the prior spider-man game as well because I didn't play that game You know, I bought the one of the Demon's Souls or Dark Souls whatever they I forget because I haven't actually dove into it yet But I bought that for 70 bucks Like it's 70 bucks a pop. I mean switch games aren't cheap either You know $60 a pop that's you know standard gaming prices and obviously I'm a Nintendo channel So I'm more apt to buy Nintendo games versus others like I'm really hyped for do Pokemon Snap this month I'll be buying that I'm really hyped for You know, obviously Mario Golf Super Rush, I'll be buying that and yeah, I'm hyped for you know Ratchet and Clank I might end up picking up that for PlayStation 5 But it's incredibly expensive notice. I haven't even talked about PC There's games on PC even from prior years. I want to buy Crusader Kings 3 I haven't bought that yet. I really want to get Age of My Pirates 4 coming out. I really want that It's expensive and that's something I didn't really plan for when I bought all these systems is how expensive it is to Actually game on everything let alone. Obviously having the time to do it. That's another thing. It was a parent of three you know Time is up of the essence and as a Nintendo channel switch will get the focus, but I do play other things and I plan to play PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X More often especially over on Twitch, you know where I can diversify the audience maybe a bit more And not focus as much on just Nintendo games Because obviously my twitch audience It's not like some big audience that that I'm too worried about we got like 4,000 followers over there But anyways, thank you guys so much for tuning in. 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