Nintendo Switch Dominates Japan’s Weekly Sales, But One PS5 Game Holds Up in the Charts

The Japanese Header Famitsu he revealed as usual the physical video game and hardware sales data for the Japanese market for the last week (from September 9th to September 15th, to be precise). Through these we can see which are the most successful products of the moment; let’s start with the consoles:

• OLED Switches – 34,250
• Switch Lite – 11,570
• PS5 – 8,254
• Switches – 4,754
• PS5 Digital Edition – 1,841
• Xbox Series X – 380
• Xbox Series S – 295
• PS4 – 39

As you can see, Nintendo dominates as always especially with OLED Switches. We also note that the PS5 sales figures are not particularly high. Recall that the PS5 recently received a price increase in Japan, so interested parties rushed to purchase the console before this happened.

Video game sales data

As regards the boxed software sidethe ranking is composed as follows:

1. [NSW] Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Ohotsuku ni Kiyu – Tsuioku no Ryuuhyou / Namida no Nipopo Ningyou – 20,919 / New
2. [PS5] Astro Bot – 8,882 / 21,554
3. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 7,840 / 5,997,783
4. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 7,069 / 1,422,221
5. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 6,967 / 7,908,719
6. [NSW] Minecraft – 5,713 / 3,631,184
7. [NSW] Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 – 4,750 / 287,959
8. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Purple – 4,215 / 5,411,506
9. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 3,943 / 5,583,573
10. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 3,538 / 3,627,657

As you can see, as always Nintendo Switch occupies the Top 10, but PS5 continues to hold its ground thanks to Astro Bot, which although it is not selling out of proportion in physical format, maintains the second position.