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Switch hits 30m lifetime unit sales during July in Japan

Draugoth

Gold Member

During July in Japan, the Nintendo Switch reached a lifetime sales total of 30 million consoles.

Famitsu's monthly retail sales data from June 26 to July 30 shows that the console sold 407,000 units across its standard, Lite, and OLED systems.

By comparison, Sony's PlayStation 5 console hit 243,000 systems sold during the month. Sony's hardware has moved a total of 4 million units in the country.

Nintendo led with 947,000 boxed titles in Japan software sales, outpacing Square Enix's 109,000 and Spike Chunsoft's 101,000 copies. Nintendo's newly released Pikmin 4 was the biggest-selling title of the month at 518,000 moved units. It has sold nearly 80% of Pikmin 3's lifetime sales within ten days after launch.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom moved 92,600 copies sold in the month. Meanwhile, Spike Chunsoft's newest title, Master Detective Archives: Rain Code, sold 74,400 boxed copies as the third-best seller.

Regarding physical game units sold during the period, Nintendo had the lion's share at 55%. Square Enix was second as it commanded 6.4% of copies purchased, while Spike Chunsoft was third, with the sales of its boxed titles making up 6% of the market.

Here are Japan's Top 10 best-selling physical games from June 26 to July 30, 2023, courtesy of Famitsu:

RankTitlePublisher
1Pikmin 4Nintendo
2The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the KingdomNintendo
3Master Detective Archives: Rain CodeSpike Chunsoft
4Final Fantasy 16Square Enix
5Mario Kart 8 DeluxeNintendo
6Minecraft: Switch EditionMicrosoft
7Nintendo Switch SportsNintendo
8Splatoon 3Nintendo
9Super Smash Bros. UltimateNintendo
10Ring Fit AdventureNintendo
 

Woopah

Member
Was never expecting it to hit this milestone, I'm pretty confident it will outsell the DS and become Japan's best selling platform.
 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
So that roughly means that one in four people in Japan owns a Switch. Not bad, Nintendo, not bad!

House Yes GIF
 

Robb

Gold Member
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So DS is the highest selling system ever at aprox. 33M?

Doesn’t sound impossible as long as the Switch doesn’t fall off a cliff when the follow up is announced.
 
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So DS is the highest selling system ever at aprox. 33M?

Doesn’t sound impossible as long as the Switch doesn’t fall off a cliff when the follow up is announced.

Yeah. 3DS kind of clipped the DS' wings and allowed the PS2 to bypass it.
 
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