Japanese Charts: Switch 2 Hits Another Milestone As Pokémon Pokopia's Reign Continues

PS5 with disc drive are still on number 6 & 7.
That's pretty low sales number, but I'm glad to see PS5 still survived. 😌

Glad to see Pokopia still doing well. Hope Star Force Legacy Collection continues to have legs.

When will we know Pokopia's global sales?

So, either the Japanese charts have stopped reporting on PlayStation 4 hardware sales totals altogether, or they just didn't move any this past week...

@AlanShore be patience, Nintendo will show their fiscal year information update next month.

Wow, Switch 2 is catching up to base PS5 which had a 5 year head start. Pretty nuts.

Wow the fact that the Switch numbers are still able to beat the PS5 numbers combined is fantastic. Sony could had easily win this if they reduced the price of the PS5.

Doesn't surprise me. Pokemon usually sells well.

Truly, PS5 needed just one good hardware release to start consistently competing with Switch in Japan. If not exactly a PlayStation hardware release.

It's surprising to me that the OLED remains the most popular model of the original Switch to buy even after the launch of the Switch 2. I would have assumed the Switch Lite would be leading as a budget option for children, with those looking for a more proper Nintendo hybrid system opting for the Switch 2 (that's not to say OLED is ahead of Switch 2, as it very much isn't, it's just surprising to me that its getting as many sales as it is).

I guess some people just really love that OLED screen.

Wow, nice milestone! Despite all the hating I see on Nintendo, the Switch 2 keeps selling nicely.

Pokopia really deserves this, too. It's so good. I still think no one expected it to be this big of a success.

The Switch 2 can end up selling over 27-30 million in Japan. I love it.

How much did the OG Switch sell in Japan at this same point?

@Pillowpants there is no hate for the switch 2 in Japan. This only exists in internet forums here

Should I trust this or the random twitter account saying that actually the switch 2 is Nintendo’s biggest failure and there isn’t one game worth playing on it. Hmm..

Wish more people would pick up monster hunter stories 3……so good.

This week I got the download version of Pokopia. The Pokemon are so friendly. I will have a good time with this game.

@hol_up according to Google, "the original Nintendo Switch sold over 3.25 million units in Japan within its first 10 months".

@Lord I agree. It’s my most played game this year as I wander around to squeeze as much out of it as I can. I hope that it’s selling well enough for them to continue this series in future.

@Lord I picked it up, but didnt dare to start yet. I read about some stuttering and minor quality issues that would eventually be fixed. I could wait a month or two. What do you think?

@hanzel Yeah, I don't get the hate. It's not like Nintendo are doing anything the other big players in the field aren't doing. In fact I'd argue that there are way worse offenders than them. But this website and Reddit can be quite the echo room, so I'm well aware of that fact.

@Pillowpants My interpretation is the typical success makes envious story.

Also I think that Nintendo is a quality product that not everyone can afford. Not everyone wants to admit it, though. So they need a valve to let out steam.

@WiltonRoots it’s crazy that it’s outpacing the Switch 1.

The numbers are phenomenal. 5 million Switch 2 in 10 months vs 7.5 PS5 (all models) in 5.5 years. PS5 currently selling at the rate of 1 vs 5 compared to Switch 2. That speaks more about the Switch 2 because PS5 sales are still fine for this part of its life cycle. Then you see the Switch, the little system that can, selling about 35% more than PS5 for the month across all models.

Note: We should be talking "models" too. An "SKU" is an ID and means any difference in a product, including colours. The Switch, Lite and OLED are simply different models. That's how they are presented in the chart. There's no green Lite or Zelda themed OLED, for example. Mind you, that would be fascinating to know!

Edit:
Regarding the "hate" towards Nintendo that people are noticing in external internet forums, that's just jealously. Sadly, it's often fostered by media, especially multi platform sites, that need to feed their constituency. They readily post headlines about supposed slowing sales while neglecting to mention that it's off a very high base and the sales numbers are still rampant. Or they omit key information until, perhaps, buried late in the article. As if people read articles these days? It's all instant negative reactions because hate and attention are some of our strongest primal emotions. Of course, the key detail omitted (from the original Nintendo report) is that sales were slightly below expectations in late 2025 in North America. So, the broad narrative of slowing sales could easily be interpreted as Nintendo's expectations too high in one particular market! 🤣🤭

Anyway, the lesson is to ignore anything on the internet, especially comments. People have agendas, as do many media sites. Facts are the Switch 2 is still selling like crazy. Nintendo even hit their revised forecast of 19m by 31 March (up from 15m) and the Switch 2 leads the Switch by about 7m over the same time. Numbers don't lie. Only people do.

Safe to say now that Nintendo's gambit of a gentle iteration and delaying a substantial price hike has paid off massively. The steamdeck and all the emulation portables couldn't put a dent in the Switch with any level of superior hardware, and Sony caved to the economic pressure with a price hike. Now Nintendo runs largely unopposed on the market and is the cheapest option, while scooping up the ports and sitting on Disney level brand power. Of all the times they've been doomed this is definitely the doomiest.

@HalBailman not just multi-platform sites… 🙊 being a Michael Jackson fan of 30 plus years, I know how the media works 😆 your post is… 👌

Why the ridiculous gulf between PS5 and PS5 Digital? It's usually a 3x difference, but this is a 21x difference. 😳

@Thomystic From last Wednesday all of the PS5s went up by $100-$150 except the Region locked Japanese Language Digital Model which stayed the same price (which is also the launch price of the PS5).

Even if someone wanted to play PS5 physical games in Japan it now makes no sense for Japanese people to buy anything but the Region Locked one and then buy the separate disc drive. Next weeks charts might even have some of the models drop below Xbox.

B-b-but the people on Reddit told me the Switch 2 marked the downfall of humanity! This has to be Nintendo bribing Famitsu to make it look like they’re doing better!!!1!

@shiningpikablu252 Famitsu confirmed recently that they'd be discontinuing tracking of the PS4 in Japan, so now it's down to the ever accurate Sony to provide the final sales figure 😆