Switch 2 vs Switch 1 Sales Comparison in Japan - June 2025 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 July 2025 / 14,796 Views
The VGChartz sales comparison series of articles are updated monthly and each one focuses on a different sales comparison using our estimated video game hardware figures. The charts include comparisons between the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch, as well as with older platforms. There are articles based on our worldwide estimates, as well as the US, Europe, and Japan.
This monthly series compares the aligned Japanese sales of the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch 1.
The Nintendo Switch 2 launched in June 2025 in Japan and the Nintendo Switch launched in March 2017. Therefore, the normal holiday periods and the Japanese Golden Week holiday for the two consoles do not lineup.
Switch 2 Vs. Switch 1 Japan:
Gap change in latest month: 985,532 - Switch 2
Total Lead: 985,532 - Switch 2
Switch 2 Total Sales: 1,550,447
Switch 1 Total Sales: 564,915
June 2025 is the 1st month that the Nintendo Switch 2 has been available for in Japan. During the latest month, the Switch 2 has outsold the Switch 1 by 0.99 million units when you align the launches. The Switch 2 is now ahead of the Switch 1 by 0.99 million units.
The 1st month for the Switch 2 is June 2025, while for the Switch 1 it is March 2017. The Switch 2 has sold 1.55 million units, while the Switch 1 sold 0.56 million units during the same timeframe.
The Nintendo Switch 1 sold 35.86 million units to date. The Switch 2 is currently 34.31 million units behind the lifetime sales of the Switch 1.
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If anyone is wondering why the graphs show weekly data rather than monthly, with just one month of data there would only be a single data point. The graphs will show monthly data next month.
Nintendo and the customers are confident in Switch 2 compared to how Switch was in 2017 coming off of Wii U.
Good start!
That abundance of supply at launch did wonders for the Switch 2.
Let's see how the momentum keeps up long term, but that's already an impressive headstart with 3x the sales rate of the Switch.
Hoo boy, this is gonna be good!
Here we go!
Glad for Nintendo. That said, seasonality really makes a difference during that first year: March (NS1) and June (NS2) will have different impacts on sales.
Looking forward to the first year chart to see how a full 12 month cycle looks.
it has much more to do with the fact that Switch was incredibly supply constrained for a long time after it launched, while Nintendo made sure they had millions of S2's at launch. And also of course Nintendo was coming off the WiiU failure when Switch launched so it took some time for massive interest to grow while for the S2 launch they are coming off arguably the most successful system of all time so there are many millions of people ready to upgrade early on.
There was also bigger hype in Japan for Switch 2 during launch week.
Awareness of launch week was very strong compared to Switch.
