This is the Japan Console Showdown comparison thread for 2026.

It will be only for the Japan region, and will be the only sales thread from me, that will be updated weekly since the site is updating the worldwide numbers monthly instead of weekly. Just to clarify, my data is strictly adjusted with the VGChartz data. I fill up the data from Famitsu when it comes out, and when the given month data is out on VGChartz, I adjust that with those slightly different numbers. They are slightly different from the Famitsu ones, because there is 1 day difference in the weeks. That 1 day difference is there because the weeks are adjusted in order to be the same days they are with the NPD/Circana weeks (and Europe too). For that reason, the week ending January 4th from Famitsu, is actually ending January 3rd, when aligned with NPD/Circana. VGChartz will have that week for December, and that's why that week will be counted towards 2025 (and be added to my 2025 thread too), therefore this thread starts with the week ending January 11th from Famitsu.

The battles are as follows:

• Switch 2 vs NSW '18 (3.5M) vs 3DS '12 (5.5M)
• Nintendo Switch 1 vs Nintendo DS '11 (650K)
  
• PlayStation 5 vs PS3 '14 (430K) vs PSV '12 (680K)

For comparisons of other regions as well as worldwide ones you can check the Ultimate Consoles Showdown 2026 thread (coming soon), or the Lifetime ones for Worldwide and Regional which are all updated monthly. You want to see how a console compares to it's previous years ? Year on Year Charts Showdown thread is the place.

The target for all of the comparisons is to be as close as possible and to give us better perspective where the given console is going this year and having good chance of finishing close in the end. Therefore if some of the contenders go way too far one from another then, the contender's year, or even the contender itself may change, so that it suits better to the given's console performance. Other thing is also I would not repeat main competitor (on the tables) from the year prior, so even if it's a good fit, I would always look for a different one, so it's always new, fresh and interesting.

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3DS '12 vs Switch 2 2026 Comparison

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DS '11 vs Switch 1 2026 Comparison

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PlayStation 3 '14 vs PlayStation 5 2026 Comparison

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Also, gotta shout you out for calling Switch 1's Famitsu numbers dead on last year. Iirc you got 1.5M all the way back in January.