Japanese Charts: Nintendo's Dominance Continues As Switch 2 Flies Past 4 Million Units Sold

Look at Kirby Air Riders go! I did not expect it to surpass DK. Very impressive stats!

Nintendominance, once again! Very impressive numbers and like @Hwatt said, very nice to see Kirby surpass DK. I think Kirby is more popular than the good ol' ape, in Japan. But still, it's so nice to see this latest outing of Kirby do so well!

But I thought Nintendo was floundering and no one was buying Switch 2 because of the stock price…!

Yeah, it’s great to see the love for Kirby Air Riders from the Japanese gamers. Also equally great is to see the sales for the Switch 2 console. Absolutely smashing!

Nintendo will probably prioritize Switch 2 development faster than they indicated before because if it's selling this well in Japan, they care. Nintendo is always Japan forward.

Switch 2 going past half the life time sales of PS5 in Japan before 9 months on the market is nuts.

Another week of ZA selling better than Mario Kart! Will hopefully surpass Mario Kart in the next few weeks!

Also holy crap is Momotaro crushing it right now!! Best seller for the week!! Kudos

Xbox X digital edition with 149, nice All Xboxes beating the PS4 very nice

Go Nintendo. I mean Sony

All good news! <3

@Hwatt I'm not too surprised. Kirby is very big in Japan, even a spinoff will sell like hotcakes there compared to any DK game.

I have both games and like both very much but I feel like I will put in more hours in Kirby than DK due to the amount of things you can do in it and playing with friends is a blast.

Nintendo Switch 2 has now officially outsold the GameCube’s lifetime sales in Japan (by around 50k)!

I've always been curious about the Momotaro Dentetsu series and what makes it so popular over there. Anybody know if there is an English Asia copy out there by chance?

@DashKappei That means they will release 5 GameCube games for the NSO to celebrate, right?....Right?..I wish.

The Switch 1 has now surpassed the lifetime sales of the Game Boy.

Wow, I can't believe this dead console is selling so well! Could it be all of those Anti Nintendo grifters are....lying????

Huh, that's weird. I thought nobody was buying a Switch 2, and that Nintendo was stuck in a rut and Japan's sales don't matter???

Air Riders continuing to dominate. Wouldn't be surprised if it sold a million by March or so.

Strange, on another article people were convinced it ain't selling.....

@TerribleTerabytes Won't be long before they come to this article with excuses.

Switch 2 officially outsold the Gamecube in Japan... in only 7 months lol

1.5million more and it beats the N64.

Japan loves it's portable gaming be it smart phones or consoles. It also helps they have that region locked cheaper SKU. With the slow down of the system over holidays (at least in the West) I'll be interested to see how well it's been selling as we get into 2026 now that you can just walk into any retailer and buy one.

I’ll be very curious to see how much Animal Crossing rises. You’d think majority of people would already have it. But maybe I’m wrong and this game overtakes Mario Kart next week?

I love the Japanese charts just because we get hard numbers, unlike the west where we get vague metrics like “most hours played on a Wednesday afternoon in Berlin ever!”

Thanks Japan.

Despite what investors say, this console will sell like hotcakes. And well deserved! It's a fantastic console, perfect evolution of the amazing Switch 1.

@ButterySmooth30FPS That is still happening, this is just the Japanese chart, elsewhere Nintendo is struggling with Switch 2 sales very fast. Remember worldwide there are no cheaper Nintendo Switch 2 with just one language. All those Switch 2 that got sold in Japan were just the one language version.

Perhaps reports of the demise of Switch 2 were a bit premature. I have steadfastly refused to click on YouTube videos that have hair-on-fire headlines about the Switch 2. My own console is however collecting dust as I wait for something new that I actually want to play.

@JohnnyMind tbh, I have stopped giving them oxygen and commenting on blatantly false articles or videos. Same as I did for Switch 1. Early Switch 2 feels a bit similar to that and 3DS.

Will be interesting to see global numbers for year so far including quarter 3 which should be available around 2 Feb.
With many territories trading down except Japan.

@Hwatt agree, but worried that 2 N franchises are selling this low, N needs to bring bigger franchises, SW is not helping great S2 HW momentum for now

The Japanese punters definitely aren't "spooked"...

@Zuljaras I mean, if you've decided that nothing short of the once-or-twice-a-decade big Mario or Zelda game will make you buy a Nintendo console, then that's that, right? You shouldn't be surprised that nothing else is doing the trick.

Personally: MKW, DK Bananza, Pokemon ZA, Kirby Air Riders, Hyrule Warriors 3, and Metroid made my Switch 2 purchase in the first year more than worth it. All good experiences, and even some phenomenal ones (MKW and DK for me)!

@the_beaver despite how anti-Nintendon grifters try to spin it, the dip in Nintendo stocks is most likely more due to the chip shortage.

With a chip shortage so close to the launch of a new console, if th situation isn't resolved before Nintendo runs out of stock and/or whatever advanced orders it could damage their profits.

Nintendo rarely raises the Price of a console, only doing it to the switch OLED after years. So they aren't likely to raise the switch 2's price even if they have to sell at a loss unless the loss becomes too big to ignore.

But as a result Nintendo COULD see a fall in profits as the ongoing chip shortage hits them.

I'd bet a lot of similar Japanese based tech companies that aren't investing in AI are probably seeing similar drops.

Meaning Nintendo stock will bounce back either once the chip shortage ends or Nintendo is just able to weather the storm.

I'm noticing that a lot of the people dooming in the comments section for the recent stock prices article seem to be absent.

Wasn't there literally just an article out here about it selling poorly?

@Zuljaras Ah yeah, I'm all in on their family fare. Obviously when a main Mario or Zelda comes out it's like a second Christmas, but I still do like most of their in-between games too~

@Trmn8r no that was a stock price article..which stock prices fluctuate for a lot of reasons... Like the chip shortage everyone is freaking out over.

A company that sells hardware like Nintendo and isn't investing in AI could get hit hard by the shortage.

Japan loves Kirby, so of course they'll keep Air Riders relevant if nowhere else will. Whether people can play it or not, it's an excellent game. Nice to see DK selling respectably too.

Total sales as of Dec 31st, according to the best estimates available and my own mathematical calculations accounting for reports of "35% less than NS1 Dec 2017 in NA/EU" puts Switch 2 at...

15 million

This is almost certainly underestimated, as I calculated a 35% shortfall vs NS1 2017 in NA/EU for the entire Q3 instead of just December, and we know it outperformed NS1 in Oct and did about the same in Nov. But I'd rather underestimate than overestimate.

This takes the exact numbers known as of Sept 31st, adds the exact numbers known for Japan in Q3, and adds exactly 65% of the NS1 2017 Q3 numbers for NA/EU.

This means they only need to do another 4m, at most, for Jan, Feb and Mar 2026. They're averaging about 1.5m per month so they should land right at their 19m target (though 20m is possible).

Yellow line = 15m Dec 31st estimate

Note of Interest: Switch 2 isn't seeing the same holiday surge spikes Switch 1 saw, but it's also not seeing the same valleys and lows. It's actually a very constant, predictable trajectory, neither speeding up nor slowing down.

Five million? They have THOSE??!?

@JaxonH Why they failing though? Bobby Kotick should buy them and then sell them.

Man I wish I was struggling like Nintendo apparently are 😆

Is there an english translation planend for „ Momotaro Dentetsu 2“?

I bought the first one physical and its in english also…

Just wait till we start getting the big games!

@Serpenterror The stock prices were from Japan, too, but all the doomers here applied to that to the entire world