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Switch Continues to Dominate - Japan Hardware Estimates for January 2025

Switch Continues to Dominate - Japan Hardware Estimates for January 2025 - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 11 February 2025 / 9,228 Views

The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console in Japan with 195,116 units sold for January 2025, according to VGChartz estimates. The Nintendo Switch has now sold an estimated 35.25 million units lifetime in Japan.

The PlayStation 5 sold an estimated 47,808 units to bring its lifetime sales to 6.52 million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 5,836 units to bring their lifetime sales to 0.67 million units.

PS5 sales compared to the same month for the PS4 in 2018 are down by nearly 279,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same month for the Xbox One are up by over 3,000 units. PS4 sold 326,318 units for the month of January 2018 and Xbox One sales were at 2,408 units.

Nintendo Switch sales compared to the same month a year ago are down by 88,202 units (-31.1%). PlayStation 5 sales are down by 172,231 (-78.3%) and Xbox Series X|S sales are down by 5,036 units (-46.3%). It should be noted January 2025 is a four-week month, while January 2024 had five weeks.

Looking at sales month-on-month, Nintendo Switch sales are down by over 275,000 units, the PlayStation 5 sales are down by nearly 123,000 units, and Xbox Series X|S sales are down by nearly 5,000 units.

VGChartz Japan Hardware Estimates - PS5, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch

Monthly Sales:

Japan hardware estimates for January 2025 (Followed by lifetime sales):

  1. Switch - 195,116 (35,253,162)
  2. PlayStation 5 - 47,808 (6,515,501)
  3. Xbox Series X|S - 5,836 (665,699)

Weekly Sales:

Japan January 11, 2025 hardware estimates:

  1. Switch - 57,846
  2. PlayStation 5 - 11,834
  3. Xbox Series X|S - 881

Japan January 18, 2025 hardware estimates:

  1. Switch - 47,574
  2. PlayStation 5 - 10,747
  3. Xbox Series X|S - 790

Japan January 25, 2025 hardware estimates:

  1. Switch - 45,339
  2. PlayStation 5 - 12,348
  3. Xbox Series X|S - 1,091

Japan February 1, 2025 hardware estimates:

  1. Switch - 44,357
  2. PlayStation 5 - 12,879
  3. Xbox Series X|S - 3,074

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 Bluesky.


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siebensus4 (on 11 February 2025)

That 78% PS5 drop...

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2zosteven (on 11 February 2025)

just imagine final fantasy 15 16 and 7 remake was on switch, gap to PS5 would be even larger

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JohnVG 2zosteven (on 11 February 2025)

They will probably appear in Switch 2... but do not expect to sell that much in Japan, I believe.
FFXIV is a better experience, and with a free trial in that console, could be a blast.

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2zosteven JohnVG (on 11 February 2025)

most people who wanted to play these games in Japan purchsed on PS5, do you think they will purchase again?

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JohnVG 2zosteven (on 12 February 2025)

FFXIV?, most probably would be a success in Switch 2. The Free Trial would be GREAT and its payed service in Switch 2 could be very very interesting. FF14 is the best product SE have nowadays. Also, you could use a virtual keyboard thanks the Switch 2 touch screen, and with the new mouse capabilities of the joycons... better than ever: You could just play it in a very very similar way as you can do in a PC, if you preffer.

15 and 16... Maybe. The portable factor is very real. People who like those games could buy them only because the new portability. FFXV was a PS4 generation game... a new edition with all the DLCs included (wasn't called that the Royal Edition?) could be interesting even for some new players, and would be no problems in performance (for sure) by the Switch 2 specs.

And FFXVI didn't sell that well in Japan, so, yeah, it probably could sell a quarter of a million more. But perhaps I'm overconfidenf with that, I don't know.

FFVII remaster trilogy will be very welcomed: the trilogy is not even finished, so of course they will sell a lot.

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2zosteven JohnVG (on 12 February 2025)

i agree on all. the original point is if all these final fantasies were on the switch, the PS5 would have sold less in japan

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JohnVG 2zosteven (on 12 February 2025)

I suppose. But I really think they underperformed in PS5.

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2zosteven JohnVG (on 12 February 2025)

i agree they underperformed also

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firebush03 (on 11 February 2025)

it was good run for PS4. Only three remain!

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killer7 firebush03 (on 12 February 2025)

I wonder if vgchartz will stop tracking the Xbox SeX/SS in the coming years. Without the Switch 2 there would only be PS5 and Switch going forward, so a classical Street Fighter situation (1 vs 1). If the Switch 2 would replace the Series, it would be Switch vs PS5 vs Switch 2 wich would also be quite funny. I would not be surprised if that actually happened. Wich was the longest tracked console on vgchartz? I think that must have been the Xbox 360 with a whopping 12 years (2005- 2017)...

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firebush03 killer7 (on 12 February 2025)

idk i don’t see XBSXS getting excluded from JP data anytime soon since it is still a relevant system. Yeah, JP isn’t a particularly strong market for Xbox atm, but it certainly contributes a non-negligible number of hardware sales to WW figures.

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killer7 firebush03 (on 13 February 2025)

I know. And i don't say it will happen next year. But the Xbox certenly won't be tracked 12 years like the Xbox 360.

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Arfen (on 11 February 2025)

According to weekly sales Switch should be near to 250k

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trunkswd Arfen (on 11 February 2025)

If you are referring to Famitsu sales figures our weeks don't quite match up. Their first week of 2025 is our last week of 2024.

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killer7 Arfen (on 11 February 2025)

No. 200k would be closer.
Its strange to see only NS, PS5 and Xbox Sex/ SS without PS4. But as the system reached its final LTD shipment, thats a logical step.

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Tridrakious (on 12 February 2025)

Sony needs to bring the price down. Get more people into the ecosystem to drive software/subs

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CourageTCD (on 11 February 2025)

Wait, Switch's numbers by December 2024 was at 148.79 million. This number + 195,116 should bring the Switch up to 148.98 million in the front page graph, but there the Switch is only with 148.89 million

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JoshuaZC CourageTCD (on 11 February 2025)

I think that's because the Europe data have been revised down after Nintendo's Q3 report by 0.15m. It was 38.50m before, and now 38.35m.

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trunkswd JoshuaZC (on 11 February 2025)

This. I went through the numbers and adjusted it down in Europe and in RoW.

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killer7 JoshuaZC (on 11 February 2025)

I was also wondering. Because Switch is at 150,86 million sgipped as of dec.31. A gap of 2 million+ between shipped and sold is already much, also for a system about to be replaced and then its ajusted down even further? Will it be ajusted down another time for december?

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