Switch Tops 5 Million Units Sold in Japan - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 September 2018 / 4,829 Views
Lifetime sales of the Nintendo Switch has surpassed five million units in Japan as of September with 5,007,368 units sold, according to Famitsu.
Here is the top five best-selling games on the Switch in Japan:
- Splatoon 2 (07/21/17, Nintendo) – 2,621,928 units sold
- Super Mario Odyssey (10/27/17, Nintendo) – 1,788,228 units sold
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (04/28/17, Nintendo) – 1,738,502 units sold
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 1,065,780 units sold
- Kirby: Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 591,721 units sold
The Nintendo Switch launched on March 3.
Thanks Gematsu.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Marketh mine own w'rds, this is bombing hard'r than the Wii U
Patcher is that you?
I don't how you can predict a Nintendo handheld to be a commercial bomb.
in a matter of time, Switch Japan sales will surpass Wii U sales... worldwide. :p probabily around 2020 lel
@Proxy-Pie if it makes you feel better, I don't even think these kind of comments are funny. I just wanted a chance to use the exaggerated Shakespeare translator I found.
You tell me
Yay! The next million should be faster.
nintendo did really a great job with the right games from the beginning
Very well deserved sales, great things are coming
Now to see some better Japanese developer support eh? Companies like SEGA, Atlus, Level 5, Bandai Namco, Konami should be all over the Switch, at least with AA titles (screw Capcom)
Well, Sega, Square and Bandai already putting a lot of titles on Switch, still missing some high profile stuff (Yakuza, Kingdom Hearts, Shonen Jump). Konami, well seeing the overall output of them - I think they are already all in on Switch, that's all they have to offer these days.
And atlus has already shown support early on- it's just that it takes them a while to actually get a game out.
"(screw Capcom)"
Slow down there. Not before the greatest game ever made, RE4, gets released on Switch.
Oh don't get me wrong, I used to love Capcom. My favorite game of all time, and first game ever was Gargoyle's Quest on the GB.
And I loved RE, Zack & Wiki, MH, Phoenix Wright, Powerstone, Duck Tales, Street Fighter and many of their games.
They suck now, though.
Wait until the Pokemon games and smash come out this holiday season.....
I wonder how high the Switch will soar in the land of the rising sun.
Congrats! Woo!
Not many games on it I care about to get the system but I'm glad it's doing good. Will buy one in the future.
And Japan is still waiting on DQXI next year, mainline Pokemon next year, Animal Crossing, another mainline Pokemon in a few years, and I gotta believe a mainline Monster Hunter and Final Fantasy will make it to the Switch as it'd be insane to put those games on PS4 when Switch is gonna have over double the install base and many times more games being sold. It'll probably hit 10 million before the holidays next year.
Very well deserved!
Awesome!
Yay Nintendo! Love my Switch <3
Its a handheld. Who didn't expect it to sell in Japan?
Switch took 79 weeks to reach 5mil. While PSP is 117 weeks, and PSV 234 Weeks. So its more like how fast it reached it. And not all handhelds do it really fast.
But it is a Nintendo handheld. You can't compare sony handhelds to nintendo handhelds.
I didn't say I thought he would win, just that I prefer Gundam.
Also : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWK9vZy0OrI
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