Through Famitsu we have the opportunity to see the sales data of games in Japan for the software side and for the hardware side. Speaking of the latter, we can see that Xbox Series X | S was able to surpass PS5 sales for the week of mid-June 2022. Here is the sales ranking (total sales to date in brackets):
- Switch OLED Model – 22,860 (1,899,156)
- Switch – 19,907 (18,399,758)
- Switch Lite – 7,638 (4,761,895)
- Xbox Series S – 3,423 (130,076)
- Xbox Series X – 3,272 (108,983)
- PlayStation 5 – 2,371 (1,451,795)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 664 (242,208)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 215 (1,187,058)
- PlayStation 4 – 18 (7,819,701)
Of course, Xbox Series X | S and PS5 sales are also determined by the number of stocks available. Both platforms could sell more if they had more units available. To suffer, according to the data, is above all PS5 Digital. Of course, to date, the latter has still sold more than the Xbox Series X and S combined, but for the reference period, the numbers are very low.
Moving on to software data instead , we see that Nintendo Switch is again able to dominate physical sales (digital data is not included):
- [NSW] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles (Aniplex, 06/09/22) – 20,964 (111,849)
- [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 18,789 (493,046)
- [NSW] Mario Strikers: Battle League (Nintendo, 06/10/22) – 13,002 (45,175)
- [NSW] Kirby and the Lost Land (Nintendo, 03/25/22) – 8,649
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 8,456 (4,682,390)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 6,887 (2,677,377)
- [NSW] Overlord: Escape from Nazarick (Kadokawa, 06/16/22) – 5,682 (New)
- [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 5,462 (3,181,291)
- [NSW] Pokemon Shining Diamond and Shining Pearl (The Pokemon Company, 11/19/21) – 5,043 (2,560,536)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 4,364 (4,905,190)
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