Top 30: https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-software-sales-12-8-25-12-14-25-top-30/

1. [NS2] Mario Kart World – 103,861 / 2,458,007
2. [NSW] Pokemon Legends: Z-A – 50,292 / 1,397,534
3. [NS2] Pokemon Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition – 40,813 / 903,190
4. [NS2] Kirby Air Riders – 39,206 / 327,824
5. [NS2] Momotaro Dentetsu 2 – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition – 18,964 / 132,058
6. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu 2 – 18,015 / 177,007
7. [NS2] Donkey Kong Bananza – 12,519 / 403,783
8. [NSW] Minecraft – 11,770 / 4,078,169
9. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 9,513 / 8,283,927
10. [NS2] Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment – 8,001 / 126,461
11. [NS2] Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV – 6,891 / 97,360
12. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 6,884 / 6,488,289
13. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 6,506 / 5,832,056
14. [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree – 6,388 / 1,429,462
15. [NSW] Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 – 5,358 / 117,664
16. [NSW] Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake – 4,962 / 305,061
17. [NSW] Octopath Traveler 0 – 4,874 / 26,572
18. [NSW] Disney Miraness Fitness – 4,767 / NEW
19. [NS2] Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake – 4,540 / 123,928
20. [NSW] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles 2 – 4,318 / 158,885
21. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Violet – 3,445 / 5,643,121
22. [NS2] Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition – 3,381 / 24,796
23. [NS2] Tamagotchi Plaza – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition – 3,377 / 76,565
24. [NS2] Octopath Traveler 0 – 3,376 / 21,459
25. [PS5] Octopath Traveler 0 – 3,210 / 22,743
26. [PS5] Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 – 3,164 / NEW
27. [NSW] Splatoon 3 – 3,053 / 4,491,754
28. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival – 3,026 / 459,894
29. [NSW] Tamagotchi Plaza – 3,006 / 205,524
30. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 2,963 / 1,668,226

NS1 - 17
NS2 - 11
PS5 - 2

PS4 is soft-discontinued globally and might have even been outright discontinued without Sony mentioning it yet. 

PS4 might not sell 1,000 units in 2026 in Japan, and probably not much more than that globally.

Shoot, Xbox Series will sell more in Japan next year than PS4. 

100% that was a typo and meant to be PS5 not PS4.

Whoops typo I meant PS5

Got it. Yeah, it would be sad if Switch and Xbox don't outsell PS4 in Japan in 2026. And yeah, Switch still might outsell PS5 in Japan in 2026 given Nintendo's dominance in Japan for about 20 years now largely from handhelds and hybrids. Wii sold a mere 12.7 million units in Japan. That's low for a console that sold about 101 million units. DS and PSP essentially switched Japan over to a handheld culture. PS3 sold a little less than Wii there, but that meant PS3 and Wii sold far less than PS1 and PS2 in Japan. 

I think a lot of that is JRPGs. Wii had more JRPGs than N64 and GameCube, but not as many as PS1 and PS2. DS and PSP have a lot of JRPGs. 

We have returned to 2016, it seems.

(I know this was a typo lol.)

Donkey Kong continues to show excellent legs; it may not have had an explosive launch, but word of mouth seems to be strong.

We could be headed for an all-Nintendo top 30 soon, with just a few PS5 games hanging in there.

I don't think we'll see much evolution in the software chart even with NS2 now getting much better support. The games Japan loves are the kind that Nintendo make and those with brand behind it... But I don't see many 3rd parties shifting to accommodate it, I think we'll continue to see Nintendo dominate 80-100% of the top 10 and then 70-80% of the top 30 (discounting reoccurring skus)

Kirby definitely landed where it needed to in Japan though. Glad to see such a crafted game finding success here because it deserves an audience... Just hope I'm able to get it on sale eventually

I think its more the fact that since PS1, a lot of third parties have built their audience fully on PS, meaning games like Yakuza, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Tekken and many more don't really have an audience on Nintendo consoles, those are all on PS in Japan. It would take a very long time for those PS connected third party games to build an audience on Nintendo consoles in Japan. Other third party franchises like Dragon Quest have no problem selling on Nintendo consoles because that franchise have continued to build an audience on both Nintendo and PS consoles.