You should probably avoid using the word size, at least in this thread, due to it making it sound like how many units are sold, ect. Probably better to go with something like "the industry generated 5 billion in whatever year".
I wouldn't be surprised this gen of consoles is the last to have physical media outside maybe Nintendo.
And it sucks, but you can't reasonably hold the opinions that "Sony is great because they're the last bastion defending physical media now that most people are buying digital" and "Sony was right to stop focusing on Japan and Japanese studios because no one cares about consoles in Japan anymore" concurrently.
Physical media is unlikely to ever be gone. There's a good number of smaller runs of physical copies for the PS5 for niche games.
The Japanese game market isn't particularly healthy at the moment. Mobile is growing by leaps and bounds but consoles are not. Lots of people feel that stagnation has set in over there. The competition is coming from outside Japan with China making moves to establish itself in the interior.
Please for the love of all that is holy no. I still treasure physical copies. I even bought a blu-ray reader for fucks sake.
We are not talking about mobile motherfucker, we are talking about consoles. Mobile and consoles are two different markets. Mobile has nothing to do with the Nintendo Switch patently outselling the PS5 in its home country hand over fist. The PS5 is selling like shit in Japan by every metric: in comparison to its actual competition, in comparison to its predecessors, in comparison to other consumer electronics, etc. PS5 is selling like shit. The Switch shows it didn't have to be that way.
Japan has been buying 8% of all global Playstation sales since 2013/2014. The Japanese sales still hit that mark with the system selling over 17 million pieces of hardware globally and Japan buying 1 million+. That still breaks down to the average they've been doing for 9 years.
The only thing that proves is that the PS5 is selling like shit globally, not just in Japan.
The PS3 isn't exactly the highest bar to clear.
PS3 is the lowest bar Sony's had for a console. I mean now it's gained a form of reverence, but it was years after the console stopped having new games made for it.
I think it's fine. There's markets for fucking vinyl and tapes of all things. As long as people buy physical games then physical games will be produced. Hopefully the closures of online stores has woken some people up to not being "own nothing and like it" cucks.
LOL NO. The Switch is outselling every previous Nintendo console to date. Even the Wii. Being the best selling Nintendo console, no, game console, is a realistic goal for it.
The Switch has already passed every other Nintendo console in sales. Its only 51 million unit sales away from surpassing the DS, quite doable.
Any past Playstation console have shown a lot more performance in game sales than what the PS5 achieved within the same timeframe, not just the Switch.
And yes that's every PS5 title that charted at least once since the console's release.
I don't need to list every single PS4 title because the comparison is clear to convey the point enough. The count has certainly reached around the 5 or 6 million of retail titles sold otherwise.
No it's not, the Switch can't reach the Original DS numbers given it's current trajectory. And This years sales were down from last years..
The Nintendo Switch will outsell the Nintendo DS. I guarantee it.
It would need to sell close to 50 million units within the next year to match the DS's trajectory. Nintendo isn't producing that much for the next two quarters they had to scale back.
There won't be a Switch successor for at least a couple more years, so it'll easily sell another 50 million. There is no competition, and investors are probably happy with NSO + Expansion Pack, so even with it being in its 6th year, it'll keep kicking around for a while.