Japan Sees Record Sales with Nintendo Switch 2 Launch
The new Nintendo Switch 2 is selling fast in Japan. It’s doing better than the first Nintendo Switch and other game boxes when they started. A report from Famitsu, a Japanese mag, says over 1.24 million of these new games have been sold in Japan in just three weeks.
The start is the quickest of any game box ever in Japan, say the game pros. To give you an idea it took a year for PlayStation 5 to sell its first million there. The first Switch needed four months to hit that big number.
Sales Details (June 16-22)
Here are some numbers from Famitsu for hardware sales from June 16 to June 22, and lifetime sales too:
- Switch 2: 140,026 (1,241,162 total)
- Switch Lite: 5,217 (6,592,497 total)
- Switch OLED: 5,110 (9,071,237 total)
- PlayStation 5: 3,581 (5,703,854 total)
- Switch: 2,442 (20,114,374 total)
- PlayStation 5 Pro: 1,676 (222,857 total)
- PlayStation 5 Dig. Ed.: 749 (976,235 total)
- Xbox Series S: 107 (3,379,918 total)
- Xbox Series X Dig. Ed.: 47 (20,901 total)
- Xbox Series X: 37 (320,799 total)
- PlayStation 4: 28 (7,929,678 total)
Top Games
As for games, Mario Kart World is the big hit on the new Switch 2. It's the first game on this box to sell a million, with 122,000 sold just last week.
On the game list for most sold last week, Raidou Remastered The Mystery of the Soulless Army made it to second place with 21,000 copies sold from June 16 to June 22.
