Japanese Charts: An All-Switch Top Ten Is Led By Nintendo Switch Sports

Finally, the king (PS5) returns to his throne atop the sales charts. Long live Sony!!!!

@IronMan30 But PS5 is third?

XBOX is still dead in Japan. 😝
Go, PS5 !

Kinda surprise to see Snow Bros. Special in the top ten software sales list, I thought that game had limited physical released.

When as a country as a whole you don't like Microsoft and still can't get a PS5...not very surprising news.

@Rob3008 Literally putting the blind in blind fanboyism I guess.

The Switch just keeps on dominating. Switch Sports will have long legs.

Next gen is in crisis.

@kennykenny Isn't that participle?

Go Ring Fit Adventure!

Time for Paper Mario Ring Fit RPG.

@Rob3008 PS5 is still dead in Japan. When was the last time a single PS5 game was in the top 10?

Sony fanboys like to use the “bad stock” excuse until the cows come home [let’s pretend Switch or Xbox doesn’t deal with that too] , but that doesn’t explain the poor software sales either.

@Rob3008 that's basically the headline/discussion whenever MS or Sony outsell each other even when Switch sold the most. I was parodying that and even, to a lesser degree, this article's tone.

@Arawn93 They’ve put all their eggs in the western basket. I did predict before it came out that if they don’t cater for the Japanese market, they’re going to struggle big time over there. They have to have games people want to play or people won’t buy it.

Multiple top level people at Sony should be fired for their handling of this gen. I cannot imagine the permanent market share they has lost so far. Certainly double digits.

@Sonos in Japan or globally? That mostly comes down to the chip shortage - both PS and Xbox sell every unit they produce.

Or do you mean the lack of a handheld? Since that is what sells best in Japan, the lack of a Sony handheld seems like a terrible decision

Wow, NSW Sports is a HUGE flop in Japan, sold half of Kirby's sales, and it's already stagnated, it's not going up.

That's unfortunate, I really enjoy the game, hope it does well in the west.

To be fair, the original Wii Sports was not as popular in Japan, Reggies decision to bundle it in in the west is what made that game a phenomenon in the west.

@Anti-Matter these numbers are amazing for Xbox in Japan.

@Mando44646 It is a failure on all levels. Do you know why Tesla has never suffered under the chip shortage? Because Tesla read the tea leaves, anticipated the shortage and stockpiled.

Sony created fake demand through shortage on release -just like they always do and when they decided to eke out real supply - there was none to be had.

It is 100% on them. No one else. They will lose huge marketshare on this huge folly. By the time they catch up supply Nintendo's newest will be rolling out or out for a year.

If Nintendo were smart they'd be looking to put the killstroke on Sony.

@Sonos every company had this problem. Sony, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, graphics card manufacturers, car companies...all of them.

Including Tesla. I know this first hand because my parents had ordered a Tesla early during the pandemic. And the order was delayed several times and took about 6 months longer because the company cited the ongoing chip shortage as the cause.

@Mando44646 No doubt Sony's shareholders, or consumers for that matter, will be super forgiving at their shortcomings.

My hope is the console manufacturer's stop the release day nonsense of creating demand through fake shortages - or they continue to pay the price in the future.

Edit - and even if I gave you the benefit of the doubt. Look at the PS 4. It may be on the road to selling 1/3 the number of units as the combined Switch OG and OLED. So that is two failures in a row in their home base. Sony has managed to decimate Japanese support in less than a decade. Failure by every metric. They are currently mis-managed.

Headline should say “led”

@Sonos the whole chip shortage thing for consoles is complete *****, they have enough chips, this is the fastest selling console gen of all time.

Is there even more demand? Yes, but it's not like it's the end of the world like Sony and Microsoft are trying to make it look like, they have enough and they are selling more than enough. This is probably business strategy to tell shareholders they have even more demand, and thus will likely sell even more in the future. It's a smart PR strategy, it's just that people over exaggerate the influence the shortage has on their business because of that.

@HenHiro flop? you are definitely joking. or you are trollin. it does well in the west. is number 1 in all countries in Europe.

I love how the Sony fanboys come here to gloat over Xbox fans because Push Square refuse to post this due to Switch domination XD.

@HenHiro Switch Sports is not a flop especially with the budget for a few mini games that game got compared to that 3D Kirby game.

Also have a feeling game is gonna be like Ring Fit. Legs for days because they both hit that casual gamer market that likes games like that

@HenHiro
Switch Sports is in no way a flop.

For all the people saying next gen is in trouble, remember this is in Japan. Nintendo basically owns the market there.

I do wonder, has any other system been so completely dominant as the Switch is in Japan?

If I had to estimate it seems to have completely owned the top ten titles in the charts for two thirds of the time the last few years. There have been times where it had all the top 40!

Even in the days of the Nintendo DS this didn't happen.

@Tandy255 Paper Mario Ring Fit RPG!!! Yes sir! Great game idea. Really hope Nintendo makes a cool ring fit game like that.

@Ooyah no, "is lead" is just about never right. It could be "in the lead," though. I once had a professor who was making a convoluted point via group chat about choice and how a student "chose" to misspell the past tense of lead wrong as "led." Everyone in the chat was confused until we realized the professor didn't know how to spell it. He thought "lead," as in the metal, was the same spelling as led, the past tense of lead (as in leader). Its probably just a mistake, like my own poor professor.

@Sonos I don't know what to tell you.

The PS4 was super successful globally. The PS5 is outselling the PS4 at the same time, and is only hamstrung by demand outstripping supply. Xbox has the same issue - its not unique to Sony.

It is a stupid move to leave behind the Japanese market without a handheld - I agree on that. But the Vita wasn't successful enough for them, as much as I personally loved it.

I don't know why you're acting like Sony punched your mom and shot your dog. Don't take it so personally

@westman98 it's an absolute flop in Japan, the numbers are clear.

If you don't think this is a flop, you don't follow that japanese charts. This game is gonna sell 600K there, that's a HUGE flop, all major Switch first parties sell 2-4 million.

@Arawn93 the initial sales in Japan is definitely a huge flop. That's a fact, it's not a matter of opinion.

It has nothing to do with budget, but with sales potential. Basically all major Switch first parties sell more than this in the first weeks.

@Mythra this article is about JAPAN. I'm talking about JAPAN. The internet and it's text interpretation...

@HenHiro boy take it easy. ring fit adventure debuted with 68k sales and is now over 3 million sales . you act like the game has stopped selling now. wait a year before you start talking with your big mouth.

Internet full of troll nowadays.

@Mythra this is a 100% speculative on your part, there's 0 guarantee the game will take the same path Ring Fit did, Ring Fit also launched with a 4 times smaller install base.

The launch is a huge flop, that's not trolling, that's a fact.

no absolutely not you are now pretending that switch sport is a new 3d mario game or a splatoon 3 that has 1 million sales at launch . I predict that the game will sell around 1 million by the holidays and then just like all nintendo games will sell between 5 and 15k a week

@HenHiro
There are plenty of 1st party Switch games that don't sell 2-4 million in Japan.

Heck, Zelda Breath of the Wild only just reached 2 million retail copies sold in Japan ~5 years after launch (and Switch Sports is outpacing it launched aligned).

@HenHiro No it is an opinion. An extremely bad take on your part. You do know there is more to expect then the initial sales right like forecasted LTD and budget for said game right? Especially for a casual game like this right? I guess Ring Fit is a flop too because it launched at less then 100k sales

Hopefully your just being ignorant because it’s not a very good trolling attempt

@Arawn93 the launch... The LAUNCH is a flop. I assume you can read???

Gosh............