Paper Mario and Nintendo Switch dominate sales in Japan, there is no room for PS5 or Xbox

The Japan continues to be the land of Nintendo, in every sense, with the weekly sales which also this time show the total dominance of Nintendo Switch both on the hardware and software front, with Paper Mario: The Millennial Portal confirming itself as the best-selling game.

We are not saying anything new, considering that since the release of the Nintendo hybrid console we have been witnessing a similar scenario, further exacerbated with the start of the generation of PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, which seem to have only timidly entered the territory. Indeed, practically only as regards the Sony console.

There doesn’t seem to be room for anything other than Nintendo Switch and its games, which is evident from a top ten software list that only contains titles for the Nintendo console and the latter which stands out from everyone in terms of hardware sales too.

An entirely Nintendo issue

These are therefore the data relating to week between 3 and 9 June 2024 in Japan. Let’s start with software sales (the data in brackets are overall sales):

1. [NSW] Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo, 05/23/24) – 19,180 (168,883)
2. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 10,110 (7,792,869)
3. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 9,415 (5,864,036)
4. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 4,849 (3,539,474)
5. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 4,557 (1,867,598)
6. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 4,342 (4,312,457)
7. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 4,160 (2,294,450)
8. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 07/12/18) – 4,120 (5,521,954)
9. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 3,954 (1,454,184)
10. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 3,361 (3,582,007)

Sales Hardware:

1. Switch OLED Model – 37,161 (7,372,522)
2. PlayStation 5 – 17,338 (4,892,761)
3. Switch Lite – 12,058 (5,876,545)
4. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 4,490 (790,376)
5. Switches – 4,124 (19,804,997)
6. Xbox Series
7. Xbox Series S – 644 (314,355)
8. PlayStation 4 – 349 (7,926,571)