PS5 sales in Japan reach highest peak since 2004

Sony’s PlayStation 5 is selling quite well in Japan, with new data showing it was the second best-selling console in the country last year, behind only Nintendo’s Switch. What’s even more impressive is that the PS5 sold better than any other PlayStation console since the PS2 in 2004. That’s also an indication of how much easier it is Find the machine in 2023 compared to previous years.

According to sales data published by Famitsu on January 12th, the best-selling console in Japan last year was by far the now six-year-old Switch. Nintendo’s hybrid console only sold 4.06 million units in 2023, compared to 4.8 million in 2022. That’s a small decrease, but it’s still great to have such an old console with such a high number at the top of the charts. Currently, lifetime sales of the Switch in Japan are close to 32 million.

The Switch is followed by Sony’s PS5, which sold 2.58 million units in 2023. While that’s not as much as the Switch, it’s still a huge increase over total sales in 2022, which were just 1.15 million. It’s much easier to buy a PS5 than in previous years, and the data seems to show that.

Sony’s PS5 performs well, Microsoft’s Xbox… not so much

Interesting, based on historical data, This is the best a PlayStation console has done in Japan since 2004. At that time, the PS2 was able to sell around 2.59 million units. Following this, the PS2, PS3 and PSP could not definitely corresponds to this peak.

As for the Xbox Series, however, not many. In 2023, the Xbox Series Meanwhile, Sony’s older PS4 sold an additional 73,292 units, about half of what the new Xbox was able to sell. These numbers aren’t great for Microsoft, but compared to last year they’re actually getting worse. In 2022 the 269,737 copies of the Xbox Series consoles were sold

Here are the 10 top-selling games in Japan in 2023 Famitsu Data. And yes, they are all Switch games.

1. The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom (Switch) – 1,929,603
2. Super Mario Bros Wonder (Switch) – 1,549,401
3. Pikmin 4 – (Switch) 1,119,027
4. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (Switch) – 907,432 (5,246,363)
5. Momotaro Dentetsu World (Switch) – 795,681
6. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – (Switch) 617,223 (5,631,598)
7. Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe (Switch) – 514,581
8. Dragon Quest Monsters 3: The Dark Prince (Switch) – 510,477
9. Splatoon 3 (Switch) – 503,312 (4,191,126)
10. Super Mario RPG (Switch) – 447,687

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