Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch Sports Tops 1 Million Physical Sales

It’s great that switch sports has finally achieved the sacred 1 mil sales. And I’m not surprised at all. That game screams ‘play with the whole family’. It’s interesting however. If this game was bundled with the switch and released years earlier, would its sales rival that of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? Because Mario kart is usually shipped with the switch these days.

The demand for Switch has finally reached saturation point. I wish Nintendo would make some sort of announcement on it's successor.

Now I call this a game. No really loved this one so much. It was like for me Dead or Alive xtreme beach volleyball. Thanks to motion controllers another level of gaming. It was so much fun. Good 1 million sales.

Looks like Sony has managed to find another gear and come out of clutch control. A console in it's 7th year selling 50K units a week is bonkers. If Nintendo do have a system that can bridge the gap then I wonder if they can catch lightning in a bottle twice in a row. More power has not been typical Nintendo for decades (if ever to be fair). Interesting to see what's next...but I don't think they are panicing about their hardware and software sales lol.

@BLAZINOAH They'd be better off announcing a price cut before a successor.

@BLAZINOAH 8/10 best-sellers belong to the Nintendo Switch, despite the lack of major releases. Hardly a "saturation point". As long as the games continue to sell well, there's no need to ever announce a successor.

Those numbers for FE engage seem low?

Japanese software sales are dominated by the Switch and hardware is only falling behind most likely due to stock issues (even then the sales are still very good), the PS5 has only been outselling recently, once Nintendo gets its supplies in order or even the next major game releases I guarantee you sales will skyrocket.
Not to mention releasing new hardware still makes no sense because:

• The switch is still very well
• The chip shortage is still a thing and releasing new hardware during a time it's harder to output makes absolutely no sense
• Nintendo themselves literally stated that the switch is in the middle of it's lifecycle and that they plan to support it longer than the average console lifespan.

So rip that Band-Aid off while it's still fresh we aren't getting a successor anytime soon and thinking otherwise is either wishful thinking or delusion.

I agree with Attitude here. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Software sales matter as well as console sales. If both aspects for the switch are doing quite well for a six year old console, why bother with a successor? The wii u was quickly replaced with the switch after a measly 5 years because sales were garbage. The likes of the Wii and DS were different. DS sold like crazy in most aspects, leading to it being the top selling Nintendo console of all time. Lasted 8 years 2004-2012. Games were still being developed for it even with the 3ds in play. The Wii was also a top seller for a long time. Wii sports sold 80+ million alone. The Wii sold 100+ million. Was around for a little over six years. Games were being made for the Wii until 2020, thanks to the JustDance franchise. Now, if the switch is more successful than the wii, and almost as successful as the DS, don’t expect another console for at least another two years.

i am glad nintendo is not listening to comments from some fans who want to keep the current switch around into 2025..

i am 100% sure a new switch is coming mid next year..

Why peoples still do not like Boxing sport ? 😟

Well either Nintendo plan to launch the Switch successor soon or dropped the price of all Switch models. Switch sales had been declining in their home country week after week now and it's not looking good.

Sales are clearly declining in every region except the U.S....once U.S sales start their steady decline (soon), expect Nintendo to start talking about their next generation plans. Most likely later this year

@johnedwin Sure, but the Switch isn't going to disappear before 2025. It's just not. There has to be some transitional cross gen type deal.

@GrailUK neither did the ps4 once a new switch comes out in 2024 sales of the current switch will decline substantially...

@TheBigBlue Absolutely, Switch software sales (physically) are the most healthiest of all, definitely. That said investors also payy attention to hardware/ userbase sales just as much.

Don't be too surprised if/when we start to see more PS5 games appearing on the software charts as well.

Congrats to PS5 for showing their recent success is not a fluke! Hopefully FF16 and FF7R-2 keep the momentum going throughout the year.

Switch is still doing quite well considering its age. Definitely on track to be the best selling console of all time.

I guess it outsold Wii Sports Club? Not a very high bar.

It's common knowledge that Nintendo makes hardly any profit from hardware sales, and the other two don't even break even. Software, on the other hand, makes 80-90$ a piece with few manufacturing costs (none if people buy the game virtually). It makes more sense to release a new game on a platform with a potential userbase of 120,000,000+ (one that will only grow if the game is good enough to convince people to buy a Switch) than to lock it behind a new $400 console that might be a total flop (Nintendo has only gone 4/7 with home consoles since the NES).

2026 or later.

I think this indicates the Switch might be on its way out, I’m predicting late 2024 for a successor

@BLAZINOAH it sold 55,000 units, in 1 week, in just Japan. It’s not dead yet.

Personally I don’t think they’ll show a successor until quite near its launch date. Switch’s first trailer was just 5 months before its release.

I don’t expect a new console for about a year and a half. Switch will still shift 10s of millions more in that time.

It only took 3 years to figure it out for the ps5. I still have no interest in the oversized console. Maybe a ps5 slim will change my mind.

Please updated more sport on it !