Famitsu Sales: Week 5, 2025 (Jan 27 - Feb 02)

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kenjab said:

Zarkho said:

How is it possible for Switch to have sell 20K units more than in the same period of last year, without any significant launch and with Switch 2 already announced? O_o'

If you look at the breakdown by SKU, you see that the main driver of the increase is the Switch Lite, which is up 20K over last year-to-date. I'm guessing this is because it's the cheapest console available now? The price of the PS5 only went up last year while the Switch stayed the same. This makes me think that the Switch Lite will remain in production even well after the Switch 2 launches, and may even be key to Switch reaching 160M worldwide.

I agree.  In this latest quarterly report from Nintendo, I saw the tie ratio in Japan is noticeably lower in Japan compared to The Americas and Europe.  This suggests that Nintendo is successful in Japan when it comes to reaching that "1 system per user" goal instead of just "1 system per household".  However, in The Americas and Europe its a "1 system per household" situation in most households.  Switch Lite will definitely continue to be very important in Japan, but I think they are going to have to keep one of the other hardware SKUs going to continue sales in other regions.