Japanese Charts: Switch And Switch 2 Hardware Are Both Crushing The Competition

switch 2 is almost to two million in japan!!!! exciting!!! mario kart worlds numbers are impressive. although i wish bananzas was a little higher. im excited to see what kirby will be next weeks charts! mario party jamboree switch 2 edition has already sold pretty well!

Wonder if Nintendo is happy with the DK sales numbers?

The cross-gen period between the Switch 1 and Switch 2 seems to be pretty healthy and looks like it will probably run a full 2 years

Well, PS5 is still selling with 4K units.
It's quiet week.

Animal Crossing New Horizons being a Switch 2 game is crazy

Nice, Switch 2 will probably pass two million in Japan in the coming weeks! Now I'm curious as to how well the Kirby and the Forgotten Land Switch 2 Edition will sell in the next chart.

Curious to see next week how Kirby and the Forgotten Land NS2 Edition fares. Though knowing Japan, it will do pretty well.

Press F for Microsoft as usual, but this time because only 1 sale separate the Series X and Series S.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Switch 2, eh? Seems even Famitsu is getting a bit confused with all these Switch 2 Editions.

MK8D still thriving!

I wonder how many people there didn't get a Switch and are now dipping into the OG Switch library with a Switch 2. 🤔

@Anti-Matter, why do you always point out PS5 sales? This is a Nintendo news website, sir.

I’m guess it is what you call
Owning a territory

Wow. Switch Lite 5,556 sales and the combined total of PS5 sales is 6,428.

@Pillowpants
It's because I'm not interested to give comment about Switch 1 & 2 sales that really outselling PS5 sales.
It's a great sales, but I felt Switch 1 and 2 were disappointing me from certain reasons after I got PS5.
Switch 1 disappointment from underpowered quality, code in box, partial download, streaming only games.
Switch 2 disappointment from game key card issue, overpriced in every nook & cranny, backward compatibility issue, etc.
Also, it's mentioned the PS5 sales as well on this website Nintendolife so I have rights to give my positive comments about PS5 sales since this article only on Nintendolife, not on PushSquare.

I felt more interested to give support on other console that still deserve for more love and currently I have more hype with PS5 after I purchased Fantasy Life I and bought some DLC for my The Sims 4 on PS5.

Side note, I still like my Switch V1 I bought in year 2017 but if I compared with my PS5, PS5 is way much better machine to play my 3rd party kids games than on Switch 1.
Switch 2 doesn't look like the right machine I want to play at the moment until I see the revision with better battery life, more games released in proper game card (hell no to game key card) and new Animal Crossing for Switch 2.

Playstation and Xbox are non existent.

You love to see it.

I'm a bit sad that Donkey Kong Bananza isn't selling more... I've put over 50 hours into that game and loved every minute of it. One of my top 5 favourite games of all time.

The hardware dominance is insane, though. The Japanese really do prefer a handheld system, don't they?

@Oldstalk
PlayStation is still exist for me.

Tbf the Series X is a dead console since MS keeps saying how much better the next (last) Xbox will be.

35k + 9k + 5k is 17k ? I`m no matematican , but ...

Sorry : only S1

What a big drop-off for Switch 2 sales. Seriously, there is no way for me to predict the sales at this point, but this way it is more fun.

The transition between switch 1 and 2 is very healthy ! Lets hope DK Bananza increase those numbers

Looks like Nintendo really nailed the timing on this. Xbox has nothing really on the horizon, Playstation is in that near late gen lull by still going but ultimately starting the wind down. Other console owners and especially those who never bought a Switch are ripe to buy into something new and shiny and people have been clamoring for a Switch upgrade. And when MS and Sony circle back around, the Switch 2 will have their strong foothold in place already. It's looking to play out like the opposite of what happened when the Dreamcast was straddling console generations.

There are no downloads required for the PS5 software you purchase Anti-Matter? (With regards to proper game card comment)

Trogdor: I'm very curious about the same! I'd think not too happy, this was their Odyssey.

Wow. What about making games for the damn thing now?

Wow. Switch 2 came in like the reaper on the Digital Edition and Pro versions of the PS5.

The OLED version of the Switch practically ran over the PS5 by itself 😵

It’s safe to say Nintendo still owns Japan.

At this point even if Sony introduced the PS6 with no PS4 and PS5 backwards compatibility, they will still failed to outbeat the Switch 2. It's clear that the Japanese customers ain't gonna move away from their love of handhelds and that's the feature that makes the Switch 1 and Switch 2 super attractive. Unless the PS6 can turn into a handheld, Sony's next gen console is as good as dead already.

@mlt they are making games for it… it hasn’t been 3 months yet. There’s quite a bit to play if you want. Probably by your perspective there isn’t anything to play, but I’m close to backlogged on the S2

With no competition. Nintendo will put the prices higher.
Come on Sony. Git gooood

@Jhena it isn’t, last week’s numbers were for two weeks.

@Johnny44
Yes, I know. You can check last weeks comments, when I commented on it. It was 179,641 thousand sales for two weeks, so basically 90 k per week. This week is 35k.

2 million in the US. 2 million in Japan. Nintendo are going to have to manufacture a truck load for the holidays!

@Jhena Oh I see, I had 70k in my head for some reason lol

@kmtrain83
My complaints about PS5 just only one, the absence of Copy Save data like PS4 version.

@Jhena it’s usually weighted on one week when we miss data (because of a holiday) so 90k a week is probably not accurate. Could be like 120k 60k. I usually go by 60k a week is superb. So 35k this week is low, but it is the quietest point of the year so still good.

@molkom
Nope.
All my PS5 purchased games in physical have all game data inside the disc since I don't play AAA games with gargantuan GB size. I only play 3rd party kids games with smaller GB size like Barbie, Paw Patrol, Fantasy Life I, etc.
They still need the updates after installation from the disc but I got a few of them don't need any update since they have the latest update version from the disc and that's great.

@GrailUK
Well, we can only assume how much they sold per week. It is a quiete week, that is for sure.

I think the PS5 has reached its end in Japan now sales wise, I still think the PS6 will sell 5+ million there as it will still be the main place for high end third party games as Xbox is pretty much dead and will be the same next gen as well. But the rumoured PS6 handheld may claw some sales back, especially if the next Monster Hunter can run on it.

@mlt Huh, I guess you must've missed
Mario Kart World
Zelda BOTW/TOTK S2 Edition
Donkey Kong Bananza
Kirby Forgotten Land: Star Cross World
Pokémon Legends Z-A
Kirby Air Riders
Metriod Prime 4
and
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
(As well as the 5 Gamecube NSO games)

Easy mistake, could happen to anyone (intentionally being an a***).

No Game-Key Cards in the top 10! Wonderful!

I want to meet the nearly 300 people who bought Xbox branded systems in Japan. They fascinate me.

@Bizzyb that's a mighty fine list 👍

not a single game key card in the charts... but well no third party switch 2 game at all which is shocking...

@Anti-Matter I’m curious, I remember you seemed to really hate Sony and the PlayStation brand, when did that change and what prompted it?

Wonderful numbers but here’s hoping for more 3rd party sales.

The comments around here lately....holy cow some of you really didn't want this console to succeed!

@1UP_MARIO the competition raised their prices first 🤷🏻‍♂️ not sure your claim stands up

@Bizzyb he's probably referring to already released games

35k? Isn't that a new low for the week?

Isn't switch 2 like $330 in Japan at that?

@progx you do know that the PS5 came out 5 years ago right

Is Xbox trying though? I’m not so sure. If they are they need to try harder.

@jsty3105 Japan sales. If there is no one to compete with there is no competition.

@DonnieTACO yeah… the Switch OLED came out almost a year later. It has outsold the PS5 in the lifetime on its own.

@spiderman0616 Internet malcontents crack me up. People want more, but they also want Nintendo to fail to "teach them a lesson." How dare a multi-billion-dollar company not do each and everything XHanako69X on Reddit wanted!

Interesting how many Switch Lites are selling.

@Bizzyb
Haha yeah I was talking about third parties being weirdly late to the party. There is this whole dev kit ordeal so this might be the problem but still a strange situation.

@progx
Yeah absolutely. My comment was not very clear, I was talking about third parties specifically.

@AmplifyMJ
Oh, here is what happened.
When I have Nintendo Switch in late 2017, my fanboism with Nintendo suddenly increased and at the same time I was intrigued to get more PS4 games after I ate my words because I was against PS4 due to my lack knowledge about kids games I can get from PS4 and during that time I didn't have that much interest level with other games genre I have never played even they are for kids. Fast forward, I ended by purchased PS4 Slim machine in April 2018 with a few PS4 games. The reason I purchased PS4 machine during that time because I ate my words after I found FF XII The Zodiac Age will be on PS4, I was speechless added with other games I found like The Sims 4 and Portal Knights , it was completely changed my mind from hating PS4 for no reason suddenly became curious to play some PS4 games.

But my fanboism with Switch 1 really made me blinded after more games from PS4 get ported to Switch 1 during year 2018 and 2019 like FF XII TZA, World of Final Fantasy MAXIMA, FF X/X-2 HD, FF 7+8 Remastered, FF 9 Remastered, the best port era.

When I get blinded by my fanboism with Switch 1, it made me half hearted to own PS4 and it made me to sell one by one of my PS4 games that get ported to Switch 1 until I said if The Sims 4 get ported to Switch 1, I will be done with PS4 and completely sell my PS4 machine. That was the moment of my PS4 in peril until when I was watching EA presentation in July 2019, I was hoping EA will reveal about The Sims 4 for Switch. But the moment I have been waiting for didn't even happened. Instead, The Sims 4 will NEVER get ported to Switch 1. That was really devastating news and I felt really crumbled. Then I realized I made a huge mistake by selling almost all my PS4 games until only 2 games left (FF XII TZA and Portal Knights). After I felt terrible due to my fanboism with Switch 1, I suddenly put my love back to PS4 by purchasing the DLC for The Sims 4 PS4 for the first time to console myself. Right after I realized my huge mistake, I bought again the games I have sold to recover my PS4 games library.

But during year 2022, I keep finding more disappointing stuffs from 3rd party games on Switch 1 such as downgraded quality, code in box, partial download, streaming only. Those situations suddenly made me less impressed with 3rd party games on Switch 1 and it made me get impressed more with PS4 / PS5 version instead for better performance.
In year 2023 and 2024, I became less and less impressed with Switch 1 for keep finding disappointing stuffs for 3rd party games on Switch 1.
I bought PS5 Fat in June 2024 and it was the BEST PlayStation machine I have ever purchased. Some of my PS4 games that really struggle in performance even on PS4 machine suddenly got performance boost to 60 fps on my PS5 machine and no additional cost to get 60 fps boost.

During year 2025, right after the Direct of Switch 2 in April 2025, the game key card was my biggest disappointment ever from Nintendo and the more I hear from Switch 2, the more I felt disinterested with Switch 2.
When Switch 2 get released, the huge sales of Switch 2 that overshadowing PS5 sales didn't make me feel happy as I thought Switch 2 didn't feel the right machine I want to play at the moment until I see the revision of the battery life, more game card release for 3rd party games and a new Animal Crossing for Switch 2.

Well, that was the reason I love my PS5.

(It goes without saying that healthy sales across the board is good for everybody; our jibes toward PlayStation and Xbox is all in good fun.)

Shame we live in an age so bereft of literacy, critical thinking, and humour that these kind of addendums have to be added.

/s

@Anti-Matter so you like Kids games yet you dislike Nintendo games, the ones that have all the game data on the cartridges.

@mlt 😅 All good mate, was just teasing you there and yeah it would be nice to have more 3rd party announcements...good thing there's a Nintendo Direct coming next month 👍

@Anti-Matter interesting, thanks for your detailed reply. Regardless of what platform you game on, I hope it continues to bring you joy. I am currently saving up to buy a Switch2, I understand some of your frustrations but I remain a single platform gamer and that platform remains Nintendo hardware for me 😊

I was wrong, I thought S2 sales will be poor and not as attractive due to a lack of oled screen. For me it still is no go. I expect a bit more mature game line-up - where is the Red Dead Redemption 2 so much talked about when S2 was launched. Current game lineup is not for me, very childish. I look forward for more XBOX game ports. But maybe its time to just stick with Switch Oled and go with XBOX portable

@mp_72 You are being impatient. The Witcher 3 was rumoured to be on Switch in 2017 and it released in late 2019.

And what makes the current line up childish? Cyberpunk2077 is the 3rd best selling, Hitman is receive well, and people are looking forward to FF7R, they arent the 'newest games' but they are 'new games', they are still reflective of modernday gaming, where Metal Gear Solid Delta despite being fully remade is still a PS2 era game at heart compared to the FF7R or the recent Resident Evil remakes which are total different mechanical concepts compared to their originals.

Switch 2 needs more kids games. Switch 2 needs more mature games.

@1UP_MARIO the competition raised prices twice in Japan already and you're worried about them not being competitive enough to keep Nintendo's prices low? 😀

@AmplifyMJ The switch 2 is well worth the wait and Nintendo is currently not increasing the price

This is the first Nintendo generation I said no to. Far too expensive of a system.