The best-selling games and consoles in Japan confirm the dominance of the Switch: let’s see the rankings

The Japanese newspaper Famitsu revealed the data of hardware and software sales for the Japanese gaming market for the week included between October 28th and November 3rd. Let’s start with hardware sales for the last seven days:

• Switch OLED – 39.849
• Switch Lite – 15.578
• PS5 – 11,566
• Switch – 4.669
• PS5 Digital Edition – 2.399
• Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 1.769
• Xbox Series S – 565
• Xbox Series X – 276
• PS4 – 53

As you can see, the situation has not changed: Nintendo Switch remains the number one platform with PS5 always behind it.

Software sales data

Let’s see it ranking of best-selling games in Japan in the last week (the second value indicates total sales):

1. [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree – 57.522 / 366.484
2. [NSW] Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven – 14.646 / 85.013
3. [PS5] Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – 8.620 / 35.567
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 5.782 / 6.044.039
5. [PS5] Professional Baseball Spirits 2024-2025 – 5.729 / 84.989
6. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – 5.492 / 294.371
7. [PS5] Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven – 5.097 / 37.254
8. [NSW] Pharmacy – 4,296 / New
9. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 4.253 / 7.943.533
10. [NSW] Minecraft – 4.242 / 3.666.338

As we can see, the Nintendo Switch party game continues to be first, in a week that is still lacking in news, excluded Pharmacy which only gets eighth position. Overall, as always, Nintendo Switch games dominate. However, remember that this is a ranking of physical games only: digital games are not included in this data.

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