Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch Sports And Kirby Still Reign Supreme

2DS beating the series X...... 🤣

Seriously though Sony and Microsoft need to get their stock sorted out, otherwise this gen could see the lowest total sales for both of them, at this rate neither of them will be hitting more than 60 million each

I agree with nintendo switch sports having good and bad sides but 4 weeks later still the most selling game? I didn't thought that!

Switch sports does not deserve the sales it is getting. Well I guess that is what nostalgia does for a game.

What happen with PS5 sales? 😟
The number of PS5 sold was suddenly dropped to two thousands units ?

@Anti-Matter shortage of stock is what's happend, seems this month sony sent more stock to Europe which is their main market.

@blindsquarel Didn't you say that last week?

I never taught I'd see the day where an xbox would outsell the current PlayStation console in Japan.

@UltimateOtaku91
I heard Sony will launch another model of PS5 in Japan very soon.
I wonder it will be same PS5 Fat model but with some improvements or PS5 new model (and slimmer??)

Excellent news!

@blindsquarel I think it's selling well right now due to being a game that uses motion controls and so people can keep active or their kids active etc

So it's initial sales will be good for a couple of months and then it will drop off hard

@Anti-Matter a smaller digital version would sell better for them in Japan I think. But if they are struggling for stock anyway I don't see the point of a new model

Heh heh Just dropped in to see the possible whining & gnashing of teeth over Switch Sports doing decently well. Probably not something that I'll pick up, but kudos to them for finding some success with It.

Oof, Xbox Series S alone outsold both PS5 models combined. Probably a result of Sony allocating stock to the West, but it's just sad to see Sony move away from Japan this much.

I'm surprised Legends Arcesus dropped from the 10 top for a bit now.

Remember everyone. Nintendo have said time and time again that they aren't competing with MS and SONY! That's a battle they aren't interested in.

Also sony moving away from the Japan market is a good thing for Nintendo gamers, more and more games that we're playstation only last gen are now releasing on the switch like neptunia, atelier, YS, sword art online, trails of cold steel, senran kagura games etc won't be long before tales of games start coming to the switch as well

@UltimateOtaku91 It is good for Nintendo but also kind of sad when I think of all Japanese 1st party PlayStation games I loved back in the day...

Wow Sony really did shoot themselves in the foot for leaving Japan now. Even triple a titles like Elden Ring, Trek to Yomi, Strangers of Paradise, Horizon Forbidden West, and Sifu couldn't save the PS5 from falling.

@Serpenterror the ps5 only sold less due to stock shortages though, last week the ps5 sold nearly 50,000 whilst the series consoles sold 14,000 combined, whereas total sales so far in Japan are 200,000 for series consoles and 1.6 million for ps5, so Microsoft are no where near overtaking playstation and probably never will in japan, but both are also inferior to the switch

@Clyde_Radcliffe Sony isn't doing a very good job of reviving their IPs as of late, a new Twisted Metal, WipEout, Tomba, Legend of Dragoon, LittleBigPlanet, Cool Boarder, Destruction Derby, Intelligent Cube, Pepsi Man, Jak and Daxter, etc., would had made the PS5 a must have but instead we got more remastered of the Last of Us II, Horizon, and oddball titles like Sifu and Trek to Yomi. I understand they want to introduced brand new titles but giving us new entry on older IPs would be very appreciated as well. They're like Sega now, trying to make as many original IPs as they could hoping one sticks and when it does milk it for one or two entry, if it stop selling killed it. That's Sony's strategy right now.

@UltimateOtaku91 And that's the real issue cause stock shortage should not happen if the scalper issue is solve. Not many games are sold cause a scalper would scoop up hundreds of PS5 for themselves with most not even selling. For every one of those PS5, it is expected that a customer would buy at least three games for it. That's $210 of game purchase per PS5, now imagine if scalper got a hold of 100 of them, that's a $21,000 software loss for Sony for all those PS5 since none of those had any games purchase on them. Sony needs to solve the scalper issue and fast. Waiting for the years to go and hoping the issue would stop by itself ain't gonna help.

Kirby is such a joy! Even more people should play it!

The big news for me are those XBOX sales! Switch family will comfortably hit 25million in Japan next week, wowzers.

The Switch family has now outsold the 3DS family in Japan.

@UltimateOtaku91
Switch Sports will be a top-seller throughout the summer. It won't suddenly lose steam anytime soon.

@UltimateOtaku91 The PS5 didn't sell 50k last week. That was across two weeks. Same for XBS.

@Serpenterror Twisted Metal is rumored to be getting a revival on PS5 and LittleBigPlanet got Sackboy on launch which is just focused on platforming now. None of those series you mentioned are terrible but I highly doubt most of them would get many people going "oh now I need a PS5" outside of Jak and Daxter. Legend of Dragoon though I don't know why that never got more than one entry.
When it comes to IPs if you're not God of War or Gran Turismo you usually get games for one-two consoles at most before the developers move onto new IPs. Sony seems to like making new IPs a lot of the time than making games from their older ones. It'd be nice to see them come back now and again, I'd love for a Sly Cooper game on PS5.

@GrailUK have they actually said that? Current people, not retirees.

It seems like Switch Sports has been on at my house nearly non-stop for weeks now.
It's the first game to do that since Animal Crossing a couple of years ago. One person after another, and sometimes together, nearly always online - so much fun!

@IronMan30 Well, I think it was mostly Reggie playing down the spec race to be fair. I just think it's funny that a sentiment like that usually applies to being last place.

@westman98 Then Golf arrives in fall.

@UltimateOtaku91 it's not their fault we're currently in a semi conductor shortage

@Larams It is their fault for not having inventory on hand at launch. Sony's current failures are the sole responsibility of one entity: Sony.

Business is anticipating. They failed miserably.

When they finally do ramp up production it is extremely likely the world will be in the throws of economic disaster the likes we haven't seen in decades - if not a century. My bet is the frivolity of $600 past time machines will suffer mightily.

Got a good laugh seeing Xbox ahead of PlayStation in Japan. Sure you can just write that off as stock [although Xbox has the same issue], but it’s also due to the decline of the PlayStation brand in Japan let’s be real. Meanwhile Nintendo is thriving.

PS5 getting its 4ss kicked, that sounds well! I really wonder, if shortages should be to blame here, since no one is buying the games as well.

@GrailUK
Not sure I actually commented on this last week. But even if did, I still stand by it. I can see why it is selling, but I am saying it doesn’t deserve the sales it is getting.

Edit:
Last comment about switch sports I made, was about youtubers putting out clickbait. Remember, when everybody was making a big deal about the first online match being against bots.

Yes I know I took your comment way to seriously.

The console gen is either gonna be the longest ever or PS5 is gonna sell like 50 million consoles because of lack of stock.

interesting that Smash Bros Ultimate has sold more total copies in Japan than Mario Kart. And Minecraft/Ringfit over Breath of the Wild lol. I would be interested in seeing the full list, or at least the top ten.

@blindsquarel Hah, no worries mate (But i did get serious deja vu withyour comment. Maybe it's just a glitch in the Matrix.)

Every other company would have pulled out of Japan after 20 years of snubbing. But Microsoft keeps on trying and gets some results good for them.

@SuperPotato316 Sony along with everyone else had “stock issues”, but that doesn’t change the fact that Sony still outsold MS outside of this particular weak.

@dimi When you are worth a couple of trillion dollars, conventional commercial sense is irrelevant.