The Xbox Series S has become an unlikely champion for Microsoft in Japan. The cheaper, 1080p-oriented console has outsold Sony’s PlayStation 5 in Japan for the first time.The news comes courtesy of Limited Run Games' Japanese business manager , who quoted sales figures from for the week of May 9 to May 15. The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series S sold 6,120 units, more than doubling the PS5’s 2,963 combined units for both the physical and digital versions of Sony’s console.Xbox has historically struggled to make a mark on the Japanese market. While PlayStations comfortably sell well into the millions, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:only the Xbox 360 ever made it into the seven figures in Japan. The Xbox One barely sold over 100,000, and while Microsoft is touting Japan as its fastest-growing market, Xbox Series X and S comꦿbined sales are still only just over 200,000, according to Famitsu.
A few other notable observations. Firstly, the PS5’s lifetime sales in Japan are around 1.6 million, far outstripping Xbox, and would likely be even higher but for global supply shortages of Sony’s latest console. Second, the Xbox Series X’s paltry sales indicate that Japan much prefers the smaller Xbox Series S, perhaps due to a lack of 4♓K TVs in Japan or beca🎃use Japanese customers prefer "."
Or perhaps last week’s sales figures hav♛e more to do with supply than anything else. As , Amazon Japan received a shipm🐭ent of Xbox Series S consoles while PS5s were still out of stock.
TheGamer 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:spoke to several experts recently, and while many expressed doubt that Microsoft would truly break into Japan with the Xbox Series X|S, they did extoll the console for appealing to Japanese audiences. Besides the Xbox Series S's design, Game Pass also offers som💙ething that the PlayStation 5 just doesn't: day-one releases of the latest titles. Even with PlayStation's revamped PlayStation Plus, Game Pass will still offer a much larger library of games of newer games than its competitor.
