Kinda. Considering it was also at a lower price overall. Although with the GKC situation on the SW2 version, there's a probability the digital sales will be quite higher than expected. 

For example, both the normal and Digital deluxe SKU were amongst the top of the charts for the last two weeks on the NA eshop. 

Anywoo, at the end of the day, the game is also clearly not a big spending venture for them considering this a retooling of the mobile game into a console fledge experience. Despite that it received great reviews and the WOM is really positive. 

So, I'm expecting SE to make quite the bank on this project nonetheless. 

It's not just the PS5, RoW has been growing in general in terms of sales percentage. Sony has been doing really well in RoW since the PS2, which has been a strong point for them since then. No other console had been coming close to their success in RoW until the Switch came along. The DS only selling 11M in RoW compared to the PS2's almonst 28M is why the DS sold less Worldwide, after all.

Switch is actually an extreme case, as it sold close to the total of DS, Wii and 3DS in RoW, consoles that taken together sold more than twice as many consoles as the Switch did Worldwide, but in RoW they're an even match.

And it looks like the Switch 2 could outdo this, as it's currently selling better in RoW than in Europe and it's only slightly behind Japan and not far from North America

I think the fact that PS5 is not getting a holiday boost sort of speaks to a main issue for the brand there. It seems PS has a small demographic base of people interested in the brand in Japan, very few families wanting to buy the console as a christmas gift, very few women. Probably almost fully men in a certain age group being the sole demographic interested in the brand. Nintendo seems to have managed to create a much wider demographic base of potential buyers for their consoles, probably more variety in age groups, more variety in terms of gender, more variety in types of gamers buying Switch 2. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony is still riding on people from the PS1-PS3 generation to continue to buy their consoles in Japan.

As has been mentioned this is week 49 so the title should be changed. For the week itself these Switch 2 sales more than make up for it sales being surprisingly low last week and with December started sales are really gonna go into over drive for a bit. The Switch 1 had a surprisingly good week too so the trend of it holding relatively well in Japan continues.

The Switch OLED still selling the best is strange though since even with the screen and better battery life it makes way less sense now to get one compared to even a year ago since the cheap price in Japan makes the Switch 2 have way better value considering how much more capable it is and how long it's gonna get supported. And with this opening Prime 4 might need to do relatively well in the US to even just match Dread at this point. Also PS5 sales are weak this time though without the new digital model probably would've been close to half of this since the previous one was barely selling anything.

You should really wait more than one poor week and ideally at least somewhat into 2026 before saying something like this since how its baseline next year will compare to this year is up in the air. As I said above its sales this week would've probably been nearly half this without the big price cut.

Switch 1 more than doubling PS5 half a year after it's replacement, the little hybrid that could continues to flex even in its twilight.

Looks like more Switch 2 stock has arrived in time for the holidays; as long as supply holds this month should be massive.

Switch 2 actually embarking into its "big boy" mode for the reminder of December I think. Finally doing the numbers we thought it was gonna do last week.

Also, WTH is going on with the Switch 1 ?! How has it still all that energy left during a moment we thought it was done for 😅 Low-key a PS2 moment in the coming lol

Metroid Prime4 did well in a market that traditionally does not like first person games

The same games that Japanese players aren't buying or interested in?

It's not as simple as "Make a handheld and watch them come." You need to give them a reason to care, a reason to be invested long-term...

You need to give them GAMES! 

Otherwise, all they're doing is kicking the can down the road. The Vita's failure had nothing to do with not being able to run current gen games. The 3DS couldn't run current gen games either - Even less so than the Vita. That didn't stop it. Because the 3DS had stuff that no other system had: Exclusives. MAJOR exclusives. A handheld needs its own dedicated, unique library to entice players, otherwise its going to fail. 

Which audience is this handheld supposed to be targeted to? PS5 owners? They'll just get the game on their PS5 (or PS6) and call it a day.

PC Gamers? They'll just get them on their PC or Steam Deck.

Nintendo gamers? Any 3rd party games they want that aren't on Switch 1 or 2 - They'll just get them on any of the other two platforms I just mentioned, or Xbox. 

The decline of third party game sales in Japan is corresponding to a lack of offering to them in handheld form on Sony systems. Some IPs will recover naturally when offered in portable mode

Wii, Wii U, PS4 and PS3 had tons of exclusives and neither sold even 15 million. Playing portable is a huge deal for japanese people, Sony having a portable option is simply a must for japanese market, even if it only to play PS5/PS6 games 

We don't have to wait until into next year to know that the higher price was never the biggest issue for the PS5 in Japan.