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Sony’s PS5 “slim version” new console will go on sale in Japan on November 10. In view of the limited price advantage of the old version, many players choose to wait and see, causing PS5 sales to freeze, and even rarely lose to Microsoft’s Xbox camp.
According to “Famitsu” statistics from Japan’s physical channel sales data from October 23 to 29, Switch is still the best-selling game console. The OLED model alone sold more than 50,000 units in a single week. Including other versions, the total is about There are 66,161 units achieved. As for the PS5, its momentum has obviously plummeted. There are only 2,717 units of the disc version and 216 units of the digital version, which is not even as good as the 3,301 units of the Xbox Series X/S combined.
If you look at the weekly updated list of “Famitsu”, you can find that after Sony announced the new version of the console on October 11, PS5 sales have been declining. Looking at the disc version, there were still 31,995 units from October 2-8. The next week (10/9-15), after the new PS5 console was released, there were only 18,565 units left, and the number was cut in half again the next week (10/16-22). Only 8,164 units remain.
In fact, the new model of PS5 has not been upgraded in terms of performance. It mainly reduces the size by 30%, reduces the weight by 24%, and upgrades the SSD storage space from 825GB to 1TB. There is no price difference between the old and new models. Sony also announced that the old model will This is while supplies last. In the Taiwan market, Sony has recently offered a discount of nearly 3,900 yuan for the Double 11 sale, the largest discount since its launch, which also seems to be clearing out stock.
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