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Miyamotoo on 05 September 2018


Total sales of Switch hardware in Japan have surpassed five million units as of September 2 with a total of 5,007,368 units sold since its March 3, 2017 launch, according to Famitsu sales data. 

The platform’s top five selling games in Japan (also as of September 2) are as follows:

  1. Splatoon 2 (07/21/17, Nintendo) – 2,621,928 units sold
  2. Super Mario Odyssey (10/27/17, Nintendo) – 1,788,228 units sold
  3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (04/28/17, Nintendo) – 1,738,502 units sold
  4. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 1,065,780 units sold
  5. Kirby: Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 591,721 units sold

https://www.famitsu.com/news/201809/05163498.html
https://gematsu.com/2018/09/switch-sales-top-five-million-in-japan#WX8lwxJUBIPYToii.99

 

Road to 5 million

3DS: 52 weeks
GBA: 54 weeks
NDS: 56 weeks
WII: 60 weeks
NSW: 79 weeks (5.007.368)
PS2: 79 weeks (5.002.680)
PS1: 114 weeks (5.037.156)
GBC: 114 weeks (5.018.883)
PSP: 117 weeks
PS3: 180 weeks
PS4: 181 weeks
PSV: 234 weeks

 

At end of December Switch will most likely pass 7m.



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Darwinianevolution on 05 September 2018

Great news, I hope this gives japanese devs more incentive to bring their games to the system, I'm surprised of the relative lack of JRPGs on the system.



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Jranation on 05 September 2018

Wow! Did the same as the PS2!



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Mnementh on 05 September 2018

Nice, that you included other systems time to that milestone. I thought 3DS must have lost steam later on, but looking at the list I realize that 3DS is actually pretty strong in Japan, currently 3rd in total sales (only topped by Gameboy and naturally DS). There are five systems sitting between 5 and six million units in Japan (which Switch should beat this year): N64, Sega Saturn and the Vita. After that is a big gap with only the PS4 in it, which obviously is still a moving target. The next settled target is PS3 with just above 10 million units. Can Switch get there next year? Possible.



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Miyamotoo on 05 September 2018
Mnementh said:

Nice, that you included other systems time to that milestone. I thought 3DS must have lost steam later on, but looking at the list I realize that 3DS is actually pretty strong in Japan, currently 3rd in total sales (only topped by Gameboy and naturally DS). There are five systems sitting between 5 and six million units in Japan (which Switch should beat this year): N64, Sega Saturn and the Vita. After that is a big gap with only the PS4 in it, which obviously is still a moving target. The next settled target is PS3 with just above 10 million units. Can Switch get there next year? Possible.

Yeah, I also didnt know that 3DS was fastest selling console in Japan (at least to 5m).



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ZODIARKrebirth on 05 September 2018

reached this goal really fast, and smash could give another nice boost



peachbuggy on 05 September 2018

Looking at the before and after numbers, it seems Famitsu is calculating the Switch sold 41k in Japan last week. Seems a little low.



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Kerotan on 05 September 2018

Interesting to see the Wii and 3ds got there first



manuelogando40 on 05 September 2018
Kerotan said:
Interesting to see the Wii and 3ds got there first

Intersting to see ps4 just winning psvita. 



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Miyamotoo on 05 September 2018
Kerotan said:
Interesting to see the Wii and 3ds got there first

It seems that 3DS is fastest selling gaming device ever in Japan (at least to 5m).

Wii also had first 2 years strong but than sales totally slow down, in around first 18 months sold around 6m and in following 5 years sold 6-7m.