Switch Tops 31M Lifetime, PS5 and XS Sales Drop - Japan Hardware Estimates for October 2023 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 November 2023 / 8,255 Views
The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console in Japan with 283,171 units sold for October 2023, according to VGChartz estimates. The Nintendo Switch has now sold an estimated 31.10 million units lifetime in Japan.
The PlayStation 5 sold an estimated 66,264 units to bring its lifetime sales to 4.52 million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 8,156 units to bring their lifetime sales to 0.52 million units. The PlayStation 4 sold an estimated 5,524 units to bring its lifetime sales to 9.65 million units.
PS5 sales compared to the same month for the PS4 in 2016 are down by nearly 83,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same month for the Xbox One are up by over 6,000 units. PS4 sold 148,993 units for the month of October 2016 and Xbox One sales were at 1,705 units.
Nintendo Switch sales compared to the same month a year ago are up by 84,436 units (42.5%). PlayStation 5 sales are down by 27,138 (-29.1%) and Xbox Series X|S sales are down by 4,074 units (-33.3%). The PlayStation 4 is up 5,473 units (10,731.4%) year-over-year.
Looking at sales month-on-month, Nintendo Switch sales are down by nearly 81,000 units, the PlayStation 5 sales are down by nearly 161,000 units, and Xbox Series X|S sales are down by over 18,000 units. It should be noted there are four weeks in October, while there were five weeks in September.
2023 year-to-date, the Nintendo Switch has sold an estimated 3.22 million units, the PlayStation 5 has sold 2.10 million units, and the Xbox Series X|S has sold 0.12 million units.
Monthly Sales:
Japan hardware estimates for October 2023 (Followed by lifetime sales):
- Switch - 283,171 (31,103,723)
- PlayStation 5 - 66,264 (4,522,592)
- Xbox Series X|S - 8,156 (523,692)
- PlayStation 4 - 5,524 (9,654,139)
Weekly Sales:
Japan October 7, 2023 hardware estimates:
- Switch - 110,258
- PlayStation 5 - 33,763
- PlayStation 4 - 1,025
- Xbox Series X|S - 999
Japan October 14, 2023 hardware estimates:
- Switch - 44,478
- PlayStation 5 - 19,715
- PlayStation 4 - 2,059
- Xbox Series X|S - 1,091
Japan October 21, 2023 hardware estimates:
- Switch - 62,261
- PlayStation 5 - 9,849
- Xbox Series X|S - 2,757
- PlayStation 4 - 1,431
Japan October 28, 2023 hardware estimates:
- Switch - 66,174
- Xbox Series X|S - 3,309
- PlayStation 5 - 2,937
- PlayStation 4 - 1,009
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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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There is approximately one Nintendo switch in japan for every 4 people in the country. That’s a pretty astronomical attach rate. I wonder what the highest attach rate for any console in any country is? Maybe some weird outlier where there was 1 PS2 for every 2 people in a smaller European country or something.
Very impressive either way
that is crazy!!!!!!!!! and its true! good job here
At one time something like one in every three households in the United States owned a NES.
Hmm... population in the United States was 280Mi on 1985 (NES release date on that region), NES total sales were ~62Mi.
Without taking into consideration the increase in population in the following years and imagining that sales were only in the United States, that would be one console for each 4.5 persons...
I have bad Math or you have Meth... I'm just kidding here hehe.
PS5 shortages in Japan towards the end of October?
There's nothing new to play apart from Spiderman in terms of first party. That might be why
Yeah sales dropped from 30k+ a week, every week of the year so far, to 2.9k because there’s “nothing new to play apart from [one of the biggest games of the year]” God, this website.
Thank you for clarifying that. I couldn't think of any other reason why PS5 sales would implode to the point of being outsold by the Series X|S.
by the starndards of western triple a games spider-man was very popular in japan.
It was just a theory . It's well known that exclusives sell consoles 😊
No stock of the PS5 fat for the last couples of weeks in the anticipation of the Slim model.
