MoneyDJ News 2022-04-07 10:24:37 Reported by reporter Cai Chengqi
Although the Nintendo Switch series (regular version of Switch + Switch Lite + OLED version of Switch) continued to dominate the Japanese game console market in March, sales continued to shrink, and monthly sales were less than 400,000 units for two consecutive months. Sales of Sony PS5 series models (standard version with CD-ROM + digital version without CD-ROM) soared by 40%.
According to statistics released by Famitsu, a Japanese game intelligence media on the 6th, during March 2022 (4 weeks from February 28 to March 27), the sales of Nintendo Switch series in Japan were 364,495 units, the 49th consecutive year. It dominated the Japanese game console market in 2019, but its sales volume shrank by 3.5% compared with the previous month (377,678 units in February 2022), the third consecutive month of decline, and the monthly sales volume was less than 40% for the second consecutive month. million units.
As of March, the cumulative sales of the Switch series in Japan has exceeded 24 million units.
The Sony PS5 series sold 94,407 units in Japan in March, up 43.5% from the previous month (65,772 units), the first monthly increase in three months.
Compared with the same month last year (March 2021), Switch sales in Japan dropped by 29.8% in March (519,138 units in the same month last year), and PS5 sales dropped by 40% (157,352 units in the same month last year).
Famitsu said that in April, new popular games such as “eBASEBALL Live Wild Ball 2022 (expected to go on sale on April 21; Switch/PS4 platform game)” will be sold, and April is the new year in Japan (2022). The first month, so it is expected that the video game market is expected to be boosted by this.
PS5, Switch 2021 sales targets are revised down
Sony Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Hiroki Totoki said at the earnings press conference held on February 2, “The chaos in parts procurement and logistics centered on chips is expected to be disrupted in fiscal 2022 (April 2022). fiscal year starting from )”. Sony has revised down its PS5 global sales target for 2021 (April 2021-March 2022) from 14.8 million units to 11.5 million units, citing a shortage of chips.
On February 3, Nintendo also revised down its global sales target for Switch in 2021 (April 2021-March 2022) from 24 million units to 23 million units, a reduction of about 20% annually.
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