2025 Japan Sales Comparison Charts Through January - PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 February 2025 / 6,194 Views
Here we see data representing the sales through to consumers and change in sales performance of the three current platforms (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch) and two legacy platforms (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) over comparable periods for 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Also shown is the market share for each of the consoles over the same periods.
Year to Date Sales Comparison (Same Periods Covered)
Market Share (Same Periods Covered)
2021 – (January 2021 to January 2022)
2022 – (January 2022 to January 2023)
2023 – (January 2023 to January 2024)
2024 – (January 2024 to January 2025)
"Year to date" sales for 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 sales are shown in series at the top of the table and then just below a comparison of 2024 versus 2023 and 2024 versus 2022 is displayed. This provides an easy-to-view summary of all the data.
Total Sales and Market Share for Each Year
Microsoft
- Xbox Series X|S
- 5,836 units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 5,036 units (-46.3%)
Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch
- 195,116 units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 88,202 units (-31.1%)
Sony
- PlayStation 5
- 47,808 units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 172,231 units (-78.3%)
Note: VGChartz 2025, 2023, and 2022 estimates through January includes 4 weeks, while 2024 estimates includes 5 weeks.
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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Switch increasing it's market share each year despite being on the way out, lol
Wait wait wait... Why are those numbers a lot smaller than the Famitsu sells?
January 2025 are around 260-300K for Switch and around 80-90K for PS5, depending on how many weeks (4 or 5) you count, by Famitsu numbers.
How is this possible?
Oh my, PS5 already falls behind supply constrained 2022...
Could this be another 2 million+ year for the Switch in Japan? PS5 should do 1 million, maybe 1,5, the Xbox could do 50k- 100k but closer to 50k. For Switch 2 its really hard to say. A WiiU/ Vita like flop we can exclude but i guess around 2-3 million minimum for the year, depending on when it launches but it could be more...
Amazing work by Nintendo to claim Japan, very important step to regain control in the dedicated game market and exert better influence. Well done.
Add Monster Hunter for Switch 2 and they'll get nearly 100% of the market in Japan.
When will MH release for PS5/Xbox Series? I somehow have the feeling it could be a launch title... a very wild theory is that Nintendo could hold off the Switch 2 launch to get a GTAVI port and release it day and date to have it as a launch title...
