The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console in Japan with 211,407 units sold for February 2024, according to VGChartz estimates. The Nintendo Switch has now sold an estimated 32.33 million units lifetime in Japan.
The PlayStation Five sold around 160,567 units, bringing its lifetime sales to 5. 3 five million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 10. 23 four units, bringing its lifetime sales to 0. 56 million units. The PlayStation four sold about 3. 507 units, bringing its lifetime sales to 9. 67 million units.
PS5 sales in the same month for PS4 in 2016 increased to approximately 25,000 games, while Xbox Series X|S sales in the same month for Xbox One increased to more than 9,000 games. The PS4 sold 135,992 games during the month of February 2017 and Xbox One sales amounted to 817 units.
Nintendo Switch sales compared to the same month last year were down 9. 67 and five units (-4. 4%). PlayStation Five sales were down 206,463 (-56. 3%) and Xbox Series X|S sales were down 15,669. games (-60. 5%). The PlayStation 4 is down 1. 81 games (-34. 1%) year-on-year.
When it comes to month-over-month sales, Nintendo Switch sales increased with approximately 72,000 units, PlayStation five sales with more than five 9,000 units, and Xbox Series X|S sales with less than 1,000 units.
Since the beginning of 2024, Nintendo Switch has sold approximately 0. 49 million units, PlayStation 5 has sold 0. 38 million units, and Xbox Series X|S has sold 0. 02 million units. units.
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Japan Hardware Estimates for February 2024 (Lifetime Sales Tracking):
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Japan, estimates as of March 2, 2024:
William D’Angelo, an avid gamer, first discovered VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was recruited in 2010 as a junior analyst, then rose through the ranks to become a senior analyst in 2012 and took over. Hardware estimates In 2017, he has expanded his involvement in the gaming network by generating content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. He can tap on Twitter @TrunksWD.
Switch there with the DS, it will be here soon.
The PS5 and Xbox’s downfall is huge for a fourth-year console. It turns out that this generation is starting to stagnate.
Completely missing the context of why the PS5 sales were so high last year.
Japan has a volatile market when it comes to non-Nintendo consoles. I wouldn’t base the climate of the game solely on those numbers, no matter how bad they seem.
They don’t look bad at all. 40,000 units during the week of February is still much higher than the benchmark sales figures set by the PS4 and PS3.
-56% and -60% are objective figures for a console in its fourth year.
The Switch is a beast.
The fact that the Switch still outsells the PS5 in this period shows that once the Switch 2 is released, all hell will break loose in Japan. I fully expect PS5 sales to drop if the Switch 2 gets most, if not all, Japanese third-party support.
So PS5 Slim isn’t such a game changer like PS3 Slim. Probably because of its price.
Can PS5 beat PS3 in Japan?
I think it’s going to be short
Functionally it’s not a PS5 Slim. One day there might actually be a PS5 Slim though and it will likely give a large boost to sales.
Why is the PS5 Slim a working PS5 Slim?
First of all, it’s not called the “PS5 Slim” and even if it were, functionally it wouldn’t be a PS5 Slim because it’s not thinner or smaller. This is rarely a very significant redesign, just a unification of two separate SKUs.
It’s crazy. Sony never called it “thin”, yet everyone ridiculed them for not being thin enough, even though they never called it “thin”. Totally unfair, but I guess there’s weak marketing.
Wow, I had to look this up, it’s crazy that Best Buy calls it the PS5 Slim.
it’s cramped anyway, we haven’t noticed a cramped PS5 yet
It’s strange, so if “real” close compatibility came out, would Sony call it PS5 Slimmer? Because there is already a PS5 Slim on the market.
You know there’s such a thing as a PS3 Super Slim, right? There are no regulations on how many times you can replace your console’s design.
That’s actually cool. Ok so if there is a 3rd slim, could it be called PS5 Super Duper Slim?
(They also increased the value to $450, if Sony can’t get the value of the console down to $300, they have a problem, turns out Crypto and then AI managed to get chips to decrease the value)
It sells on par with the PS4 and the PS4 has been the most successful console of all time in terms of game sales and profits generated. I don’t think that’s too problematic.
The Xbox Series is doing very well in Japan. With any luck it can reach up to 1 million units sold in Japan. It’s a shame that in the rest of the world he’s doing poorly
I was actually expecting the PS5 to take over this year in Japan, but it looks like that won’t be the case just yet. . . Interestingly, the Switch also has a strong hold. Perhaps releasing the successor this year was too soon. They will surely sell around 10 million WW units. I hope they can take advantage of this “delay” to produce everything imaginable because the Switch 2 release is sure to be massive.
13-13. 5 million in 2024.
The times they Are a changing
For the sale weeks of February 24 and March 2. PS5 and Switch sales figures are backwards.