Famitsu has shared the latest physical gaming charts from Japan, this time comprising the last two weeks and it has been yet another monster one for the Switch.
The Japan-only Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-25 knocks it out of the park once again, staying at the top of the pile with an additional 32,372 copies sold. It's mostly familiar faces elsewhere, with the likes of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Nintendo Switch Sports padding out the top 10, but That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ISEKAI Chronicles makes its debut at number four with a perfectly respectable 21,270 sales.
As for Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition... yeahhh, it's gone.
For the full breakdown, here's a look at the latest top ten in full:
The hardware charts are also a Switch-fest this time. The OLED takes a staggering lead with an additional 73,867 sales (127,198 across all three Switch SKUs), leaving the competition in the dust. And the Switch Lite has crossed the six-million mark!
The Xbox Series S and PlayStation 4 sit way behind at the bottom of the chart once again, only managing to shift 66 and 54 units respectively.
Here's your look at this week's Japanese hardware chart in full.
Position |
Console |
Unit Sales (29th July - 4th Aug) |
Total Unit Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Switch - OLED Model |
73,867 |
7,715,864 |
| 2 |
PlayStation 5 |
37,823 |
5,114,386 |
| 3 |
Switch Lite |
30,243 |
6,000,025 |
| 4 |
Switch |
23,087 |
19,875,430 |
| 5 |
PlayStation 5 - Digital Edition |
9,069 |
837,740 |
| 6 |
Xbox Series X |
4,364 |
305,213 |
| 7 |
Xbox Series S |
66 |
317,177 |
| 8 |
PlayStation 4 |
54 |
7,928,240 |
What do you make of this week's charts? Let us know your thoughts with a comment down below.
[source famitsu.com]
Comments 28
Again, PS5 sales is still good. 😊
Happy to see "Slime" in fourth and selling more than 20k copies physically in its first two weeks other than the usual suspects (at this point including Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-25 which keeps on selling) other than of course Switch itself!
@JohnnyMind It's the first two weeks as the game released on August 8th and this report is for two weeks from August 5th to 18th.
More and more my online in Switch Sports is limited to people from Japan (based on the names). I feel like the rest of the world is sleeping on the game and missing out.
@YourDaddy - there is a .99 version that is online only that is available outside of Japan - it is not localized, but is playable.
@cyrus_zuo it can also be played offline against a CPU as well. I dunno how much you'd be missing if you don't play online, but hey, it's 99 cents for a pretty fun baseball game, even if it doesn't have the career mode.
@YourDaddy MLB Power Pros on Wii was so good. I wish they would translate this series again. Even if it was the NPB league. Especially if it was NPB, actually!
@BTB20 Oops, missed that at the top of the article, will fix it, thanks for pointing it out!
Switch really is giving the PS5 in Japan a good solid pounding. It’s great to see. 😊
PS5 software, nowhere to be seen.... 😄
@BANJO The tech twins have had a bad generation. In what should be one of their peak years, both have been really lacklustre in first party IP. I know we are all Nintendo fans here but bias to one side, Nintendo keeps the train going of good quality IP and it's why they are still here. The Switch is waning yes, but it is no where near done yet.
@Duncanballs Exactly, PS5 is still doing ok, but is now falling short compared to it's opening years. Xbox has been fumbling sales wise for the past 2+ years. (I have a Series S and enjoy it greatly, but the Xbox brand is currently in a bit of a conundrum, for sure.
Meanwhile the Switch just keeps on chugging along...
@BANJO It's the age old adage, it's all about the games!
Still true and always will be.
Things feel so stagnant and stale these days. I'm not talking just video games. But these charts reminded me of these feelings. 😒
So that is 33 Series S a week then.
@outsider83 The Industry and all of gaming are more than ready for Switch 2 at this point. Hopefully Nintendo announces something in the next few months.
@Anti-Matter not trying to be a jerk or anything but why do you always talk about the PS5 on a nintendo website?
"Someone get an ambulance, because the PS5 needs some medical attention"
Wii U Wii U Wii U
@beltmenot That's what I'm saying (also I think he blocked me)
@Duncanballs Yes, when the Switch still has Zelda, 2x Mario (Party & Luigi), Metroid, Pokemon, and Donkey Kong games still upcoming, it will keep performing well, I'm sure.
@beltmenot
Here is the thing.
I keep my eyes on 3rd party games mostly and the reason I keep talking about PS5 on Nintendolife because even PushSquare didn't provide the 3rd party kids games article so I got a lot of information about upcoming 3rd party kids games from Nintendolife when the game itself have multi console version.
I keep saying I didn't consider the Switch version but consider the PS5 version because literally I keep finding the 3rd party multi console games have the worst version on Switch version but better performance on PS5, so why should I keep insist the Switch version with half baked quality?
About keep talking PS5 sales on this article, when I see a decent / good sales from PS5, it gave me a good situation where the 3rd party kids games support will keep going as I keep finding more support from 3rd party kids games from Outright Games / Microids / GameMill / Merge Games / Team17 / etc as I really depend on 3rd party games for my PS5.
When PS5 sales situation suddenly like Wii U sales situation, it will make me worried as it will affect the 3rd party games support.
Btw, I still like with my Nintendo Switch machine and the games but currently I don't have much that hype after I keep finding the things that bothering me from Switch games situation that made me didn't want to support them from partial download, code in box, streaming only, downgraded quality, etc.
@BANJO 45% decrease in sales seems the engine has to be replaced as soon as possible with switch 2..
@johnedwin With the current upcoming games (first and third party) it will still have one last amazing Christmas. Sales will be down, yes, but will also be around 150 million + at this point. Good things come to those who wait, and Switch 2 should be here in 2025.
Localize Powerful Pro Baseball for the West again Konami, you cowards!
Crazy how the Switch has sold this much/been out this long and can still combine to sell over 100k in a week, without any brand new releases.
With these numbers why even release a switch 2?!
@JohnnyMind https://www.famitsu.com/ranking/game-sales/
Famitsu just published the top 30 for the week August 5th to 11th and Slime was at #1 with 17.271 copies sold.
@BTB20 So it actually went quite down this week specifically, 15th with 3999 copies sold - oh well, glad it was on top and selling that much in its first week at least!
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