N64, GC and Wii U didn't exactly rip the charts up.  But perhaps I'm missing something.

Perhaps the GBC, GBA, Ds, and 3ds.

so you call 2003 domination by playstation?

Could be.  I never mobile gamed so I have no idea.  I think Nintendo combining home and portable into a single division focused on a hybrid was a brilliant business decision.

Switch sales still going strong two and a half months after TotK! This thing just can't be stopped! Over 30m and still selling 70k+ weekly. Only one week in the past 14 weeks has been under 70k wow!

Switch is an unstoppable train barreling down on that DS Japan record. It should be well within a million of DS sales by end of this year, maybe even only 500k to go at that point. Switch may pass DS in Japan by end of the fiscal year. Switch could very well end up hitting 35m.

And look at that Switch top 9 all 5600 and up. Pretty sure that is stronger than it normally is. Splat3 and Switch Sports continuing to sell well, TotK refusing to drop down to lower numbers, Pikmin 4 a huge second week over 100k, and of course MK8D and Minecraft just selling forever.


As for PS5 I still don't get whats going on this year. Not sure why it's so popular in Japan this year unless its a lot of people exporting out of Japan. I'd have expected to go back under 20k by now. But good for Sony for apparently keeping their gaming brand alive in Japan after generations of gradual descent.

It is a lot of people importing from Japan like it has been since the beginning. The PS5's physical software sales are just too low all around to suggest otherwise, even when factoring in very high digital sales.

Regardless of the good hardware sales for the PS5 on the surface level, it's not that great of a result. The PS handheld line got axed, so the brand as a whole is still in decline. Plus it's still unclear what the future holds, because the PS4 used to track above the PS3 for a long time too, only to end up selling less in the end. Nowadays there aren't all that many Japan-relevant software titles left that are still exclusive to PS.

Pikmin 4 holding well.

Ah that's true. The dismal Japan software sales for PS5 pretty much point to the fact that a lot of those systems this year aren't actually going to Japanese owners. Even if there are high digital sales numbers, the gulf between HW sales and SW sales is enormous. Either Japanese are buying PS5's as a door stop haha or lots of those systems are leaving the country.

PS5 (4.046 million) has surpassed the lifetime sales of Gamecube (4.04 million) in Japan.

Playstation never "dominated" Nintendo in Japan unless you're strictly talking about home consoles.