Switch sales plunge in Japan after price increase; PS5 tops chart
After Nintendo’s May 25 price increase, weekly Switch sales in Japan fell: Switch 2 sold 31,751 units and the original Switch 299; the PS5 family combined reached 8,373.
Retail hardware data for the week ending May 31 in Japan show a sharp drop in Switch sales in the first full week after Nintendo raised prices on May 25. The Switch 2 sold 31,751 units and the original Switch sold 299 units. The PlayStation 5 family recorded a combined 8,373 units, placing Sony first in the weekly hardware ranking.
The week’s hardware ranking placed the Switch 2 at the top with 31,751 units, followed by the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition at 6,527 and the Switch OLED at 4,162. The Switch Lite sold 1,810 units and the PlayStation 5 Pro moved 1,479 units. Other entries included the Xbox Series X Digital Edition at 408, the PlayStation 5 at 367, and the Xbox Series X and S at 304 and 123 units respectively.
Combined sales of Sony’s PS5 models totaled 8,373 units for the period, compared with 6,271 units for the three main Switch SKUs. The Switch 2 had reached about 247,880 units in the previous week, before the price increase.
Boxed software sales for the week showed Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream at number one with 52,483 copies sold, bringing its lifetime total to 1,259,031. 007 First Light debuted on PS5 with 20,690 copies. Utawarerumono: Past and Present Rediscovered appeared on PS5 with 6,225 copies and on Switch 2 with 2,863 copies, while Demon Kill Demon: Yomi 1984 sold 3,719 copies on Switch.
Mario Kart World sold 5,865 copies on Switch 2 for the week and has a lifetime total of 2,958,073 on Switch platforms. Minecraft sold 3,480 copies on Switch during the period and has a lifetime total of 4,214,562 on the console.
Lifetime hardware totals reported for the week showed the Switch 2 at 5,865,213 units, the Switch OLED at 9,585,830, the Switch Lite at 6,972,953 and the original Switch at 20,300,305. The PlayStation 5 Digital Edition’s lifetime total was 1,302,820, the PlayStation 5 at 5,919,834 and the PlayStation 5 Pro at 360,308.
The figures provide the first full-week sales snapshot after the May 25 price adjustment in Japan, with overall console sales lower than in recent weeks.
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