Sony has enjoyed a decent run over the last few weeks in Japan, with the holiday season pushing sales of both the PlayStation 4 and the PS4 Pro. According to the latest hardware charts, the former broke 50,000 units over the last week, and although the latter saw a very slight dip, the supercharged system still managed to top 15,000 units.
Of course, nothing can touch the Nintendo Switch right now -- and that's true of the software charts as well. The Big N dominated the top ten, with only one new PS4 release -- The Idolmaster: Stella Stage -- coming anywhere close.
Needless to say, it's going to stay like this for a while. We're looking forward to seeing what January's heavy hitters can do.
Hardware sales
- Switch – 269,684 (221,210)
- PlayStation 4 – 50,662 (45,161)
- New 2DS LL – 45,387 (31,653)
- New 3DS LL – 27,947 (19,115)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 16,595 (17,804)
- PlayStation Vita – 14,041 (9,049)
- 2DS – 6,992 (4,324)
- Xbox One – 687 (2,175)
- New 3DS – 311 (421)
- Wii U – 98 (75)
- PlayStation 3 – 40 (44)
- Xbox One X – 32 (132)
Software sales
- [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 209,630 (1,292,281)
- [3DS] Yo-kai Watch Busters 2: Treasure Legend Banbaraya – Sword / Magnmum (Level-5, 12/16/17) – 184,739 (393,279)
- [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon (Nintendo, 11/17/17) – 176,789 (1,345,962)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 137,607 (1,668,466)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04,28,17) – 100,205 (1,045,438)
- [3DS] Kirby: Battle Royale (Nintendo, 11/30/17) – 42,796 (115,324)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 35,565 (738,026)
- [NSW] Pokken Tournament DX (Nintendo, 09/22/17) – 27,053 (297,491)
- [NSW] Arms (Nintendo, 06/16/17) – 25,285 (297,491)
- [PS4] The Idolmaster: Stella Stage (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 12/21/17) – 23,772 (New)
- [NSW] 1-2-Switch (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 23,156 (328,694)
- [3DS] Style Savvy: Styling Star (Nintendo, 11/03/17) – 21,321 (105,557)
- [PS4] Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings (Gust, 12/21/17) – 21,129 (New)
- [PS4] Earth Defense Force 5 (D3 Publisher, 12/07/17) – 20,536 (164,944)
- [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf Amiibo+ (Nintendo, 11/23/16) – 18,019 (336,543)
- [NSW] Sumikko Gurashi: Sumikko Park he Youkoso (Nippon Columbia, 12/07/17) – 17,769 (110,355)
- [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon Double Pack (Nintendo, 11/17/17) – 17,679 (319,945)
- [PS4] Okami HD (Limited Edition Included) (Capcom, 12/21/17) – 16,536 (New)
- [NSW] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 Deluxe Edition (Bandai Namco, 12/21/17) – 16,011 (New)
- [NSW] Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 for Nintendo Switch (Bandai Namco, 09/07/17) – 15,916 (89,161)
[source 4gamer.net, via gematsu.com]
Comments 32
Nintendo killed it over there this holiday.
PS4 game sales are probably spread out over a lot of different releases, judging from those over 65 thousand hardware sales.
For those keeping track, the NS is around 1 million behind the 3DS in Japan compared to the same point in the 3DS life cycle.
x box x 32.wow even magic Johnson can't help the sh😱Xbox.haha😂.word up son😄
And the top selling PS4 game in Japan is .... The Idolmaster! Huh?! And the next best is ... Atelier Lydie & Suelle?! I’ve never even heard of these games.
68000 PS4s sold/week would be pretty impressive IF the Switch wasn't a thing.
Sales are on the up, but nothing will stop the Switch in Japan.
Hopefully Sony come out swinging next gen with a high profile JRPG launch title .
@Fight_Teza_Fight
What's crazy is the PS4 worldwide sales numbers despite being pretty much non-existent in Japan compared to past PlayStation consoles. For this gen anyway, the decision to focus on the West paid off.
@playstation1995
It was only a matter of time before the..... ps3 beat it again! Lol
The switch is awesome no doubt. I wonder how Sony will respond?
@themcnoisy By making a Switch -ripoff - playstation swap...
@3MonthBeef it’s cheaper!
I'm surprised Microsoft even bothered launching the Xbone X in Japan.
@Ralizah haha ha.word up son micro you are so soft should just give up already in Japanese.word up son
What's a xbox?
All I could do when I saw the Switch numbers was...😳 Congrats to Nintendo!
@Th3solution hearing that makes me sad. An Idol game in the top 10 on Team Playstation. 🙁
@premko1 as if they need to respond when they're doing so well worldwide.
@TheHatredDMC What makes you sad? The fact that I had no idea what “The Idolmaster: Stella stage” was or that the game is in the top ten?
Splatoon is still putting in ludicrous numbers. Monster Hunter will no doubt have a huge impact as always.
wow, switch 269K units in a month, up from 221K last month. was wondering whether ps4 ever posted these (ridiculously) high numbers in it's charts? still, i'm not a fan of the switch - there are simply no games i want to play on it. i'm guessing everyone that has a 3ds is simply replacing it with a switch as it seems a worthy upgrade. everything seems so mediocre compared to ps4 exclusives and upcoming titles.
@YummyHappyPills thanks...even more ridiculous numbers then... don't think ps4 ever hit these highs on a weekly basis...
I love my PS4 people but the Switch is just very impressive in many ways. From the library for year one to the portable capabilities to the heap of classics it already has. A far cry from the Wii U days for sure!
2018 is fully stacked for PlayStation Exclusives, The 3 Final Big Exclusives in 2019 are Ghost Of Tsushima, Death Stranding And The Last Of Us 2. PS5 will launch Fall 2019.
@Grawlog Oh yeah, that price point thing really hurt Wii U too, and the climate was all wrong for Wii U. We should all just "please understand" how the Wii U and NS turned out.
NS has certainly hit the nail well in Japan. Monster Hunter and SotC will be high up for PS in the next couple of months, thats all its got, so expect Nintendo ruling Japan for a while.
@naruball they do, because they can do more money.
@Grawlog But when you make excuses for the NS, you are a Nintendo apologist. That has always been my problem with NS fans.
Enjoy what you like, but don't try to make it something it isn't.
@Mahe
"Enjoy what you like, but don't try to make it something it isn't."
Ok, you stop trying to make out the Switch is struggling or its software line up is 'garbage' then.
"But when you make excuses for the NS, you are a Nintendo apologist."
Hahaha. Rationality has left the building.
@themcnoisy
I don't think they'll do much. Worldwide they're cleaning up and have a ton of great exclusives still to come on PS4 that will drive sales. The next two years are harvest time for Sony.
@Grawlog "I own consoles from every manufacturer and don't play the one that has the shiniest branding; I play what's fun."
You know what, that's me too! Guess our conception of what's fun and what's all branding and nothing to back it up is different.
@Mahe
I love how you paint yourself as some "pure and objective gamer" when all you do at NintendoLife is spout objectively false and fanboyish gibberish (NS is "struggling", it's lineup is "garbage", Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a "flop", etc)
Hilarious.
Anyways, pretty decent PS4 sales when all things considered, despite the fact that this was obviously Nintendo's week. Monster Hunter World should rake in big numbers come January.
@Grawlog Nintendolife has gone to the dogs in how biased they are these days, and the fanboys aren't any better. I still visit the site sometimes to check on 2DS news, and may deliver a reminder that their Nintendo fan glasses aren't showing everything. Sometimes they go as far as leaving big news completely unreported because the news doesn't fit their bias.
@Averagewriter The Xbox One may not be killer numbers but I wouldn't rely on Japan's number to be an indicator of sales between a domestic product and a foreign product. The Xbox brand isn't well like there at all so of course Sony and Nintendo will win there, then you're comparing it to the Vita, a portable gaming device, something that's strong in Japan but a flop everywhere else.
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