Switch sales top five million in Japan

Deleted member 5535 · Sep 5, 2018

Total sales of Switch hardware in Japan have surpassed five million units as of September 2 with a total of 5,007,368 units sold since its March 3, 2017 launch, according to Famitsu sales data.

The platform's top five selling games in Japan (also as of September 2) are as follows:

Splatoon 2 (07/21/17, Nintendo) – 2,621,928 units sold
Super Mario Odyssey (10/27/17, Nintendo) – 1,788,228 units sold
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (04/28/17, Nintendo) – 1,738,502 units sold
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 1,065,780 units sold
Kirby: Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 591,721 units sold

https://gematsu.com/2018/09/switch-sales-top-five-million-in-japan#t1kdQeiacZG7iwWt.99

Phendrift · Sep 5, 2018

Splatoon 2 insanity

Kirby also climbing up quick.

Also it's so great to see Zelda up there :^)

Dark Cloud · Sep 5, 2018

Nintendo Land

patapon · Sep 5, 2018

Congrats Nintendo. Fantastic news!

Deleted member 864 · Sep 5, 2018

Congrats Nintendo!

salromano · Sep 5, 2018

The release dates for Mario Odyssey and Mario Kart 8 got mixed up, my bad!

duckroll · Sep 5, 2018

So well over half of the Japanese Switch userbase own Splatoon 2, and 1 in 5 Switch owners in Japan bought Zelda at retail? Pretty amazing.

CGiRanger · Sep 5, 2018

For fun, what were the total Wii U Hardware Sales in Japan?

Medalion · Sep 5, 2018

Congratulations Switchtendo

Deleted member 1413 · Sep 5, 2018

Over a 50% attach rate for Splatoon is nuts.
Not sure if that includes digital either.

It's probably good news that a console is performing that well in japan. Hopefully devs can adapt for year 3 to be good

DecoReturns · Sep 5, 2018

Who would've thought Zelda would be so high.

I'm expecting a Splatoon Spin-off. Has to happen eventually. What type of game? Who knows. Just seems like a smart thing to do.

Deleted member 1413 · Sep 5, 2018

CGiRanger said:
For fun, what were the total Wii U Hardware Sales in Japan?

3.3M

Quo Vadis · Sep 5, 2018

5 million in 18 months.

I know the 3DS is a different market but how long did it take to reach 5 million in Japan?

Sandfox · Sep 5, 2018

Those SW sales will never cease to amaze me.

NintendoMariah · Sep 5, 2018

absolutely amazing
what a time to be alive

Platy · Sep 5, 2018

duckroll said:
So well over half of the Japanese Switch userbase own Splatoon 2, and 1 in 5 Switch owners in Japan bought Zelda at retail? Pretty amazing.

CHances are all japanese switch users bought splatoon 2 if it is just retail

Shark · Sep 5, 2018

That's healthy.

Deleted member 5535 · Sep 5, 2018

salromano said:
The release dates for Mario Odyssey and Mario Kart 8 got mixed up, my bad!

No worry! I'll correct it.

Joltik · Sep 5, 2018

How does Odyssey sales compare to other 3D Mario platformers in Japan?

foxuzamaki · Sep 5, 2018

Wow. in the thread everyone was saying 2 weeks until it reached this but it didnt even need that

Deleted member 5535 · Sep 5, 2018

Cartridge Games said:
Over a 50% attach rate for Splatoon is nuts.
Not sure if that includes digital either.

It's probably good news that a console is performing that well in japan. Hopefully devs can adapt for year 3 to be good

No digital sales included, otherwise Kirby would be above 600k, for example.

mrmickfran · Sep 5, 2018

Splatoon is a goddamn monster

crimsonheadGCN · Sep 5, 2018

Congratulations to Nintendo!

Marukoban · Sep 5, 2018

Joltik said:
How does Odyssey sales compare to other 3D Mario platformers in Japan?

It has passed every single 3D Mario except for Super Mario 3D Land (LTD 2,111,490).

Deleted member 20297 · Sep 5, 2018

When will they overtake PS4 there? Where is PS4 at in JP?

Lelouch0612 · Sep 5, 2018

Joltik said:
How does Odyssey sales compare to other 3D Mario platformers in Japan?

Already at n°2.

Code:

[3DS] Super Mario 3D Land   344.698 / 2.111.490 
[SWI] Super Mario Odyssey   511.625 / 1.788.228 
[N64] Super Mario 64        162.111 / 1.646.558 
[NDS] Super Mario 64 DS     120.062 / 1.231.891 
[WII] Super Mario Galaxy 2  337.569 / 1.046.696
[WII] Super Mario Galaxy    256.341 / 1.025.664 
[NGC] Super Mario Sunshine  280.610 / 789.989 
[WIU] Super Mario 3D World  106.967 / 613.693

Retail only.

Marukoban · Sep 5, 2018

c0de said:
When will they overtake PS4 there? Where is PS4 at in JP?

PS4 just passed 7m not long ago.
https://gearnuke.com/ps4-sold-7-million-units-japan/
Maybe by early-mid next year Switch will pass PS4.

Lelouch0612 · Sep 5, 2018

Marukoban said:
PS4 just passed 7m not long ago.
https://gearnuke.com/ps4-sold-7-million-units-japan/
Maybe by early-mid next year Switch will pass PS4.

It has a good shot at doing so by end of the year.

Dark Cloud · Sep 5, 2018

Lelouch0612 said:

Already at n°2.

Code:

[3DS] Super Mario 3D Land   344.698 / 2.111.490
[SWI] Super Mario Odyssey   511.625 / 1.788.228
[N64] Super Mario 64        162.111 / 1.646.558
[NDS] Super Mario 64 DS     120.062 / 1.231.891
[WII] Super Mario Galaxy 2  337.569 / 1.046.696
[WII] Super Mario Galaxy    256.341 / 1.025.664
[NGC] Super Mario Sunshine  280.610 / 789.989
[WIU] Super Mario 3D World  106.967 / 613.693

Retail only.

Click to shrink...

Poor 3D World. It should be near the top.

AcademicSaucer · Sep 5, 2018

That Splatoon 2 attach rate, Nintendo should let their younger staff make more online games

Lelouch0612 said:
It has a good shot at doing so by end of the year.

How big is smash in japan?

SMD · Sep 5, 2018

Marukoban said:
PS4 just passed 7m not long ago.
https://gearnuke.com/ps4-sold-7-million-units-japan/
Maybe by early-mid next year Switch will pass PS4.

Smash and Pokemon, dude.

Gamer @ Heart · Sep 5, 2018

Spaltoon tactical rpg pls.

Herb Alpert · Sep 5, 2018

Nice to see an healthy Nintendo platform, not only in Japan, which isn't really surprising, but worldwide.

gogojira · Sep 5, 2018

Deserved. Such a great comeback for Nintendo.

SpeedyBlueDude · Sep 5, 2018

I don't understand what Japan see in Splatoon. Of all the "shooters" they choose to love and try to make an "eSport" out of, they choose Splatoon.

Ugh.

Dark Cloud · Sep 5, 2018

AcademicSaucer said:
That Splatoon 2 attach rate, Nintendo should let their younger staff make more online games

How big is smash in japan?

Smash and Pokémon dude.

kickz · Sep 5, 2018

Awesome job, at this rate they will surpass PS4 in their first 2 years lol

But 4 out of those 5 titles are from 2017, 2018 has been very lack luster

Deleted member 10737 · Sep 5, 2018

amazing result. they did a lot right with switch's hardware, and their support for it has been phenomenal so this is well deserved.

kickz · Sep 5, 2018

SpeedyBlueDude said:
I don't understand what Japan see in Splatoon. Of all the "shooters" they choose to love and try to make an "eSport" out of, they choose Splatoon.

Ugh.

Are you nuts? Its a great game

SMD · Sep 5, 2018

SpeedyBlueDude said:
I don't understand what Japan see in Splatoon. Of all the "shooters" they choose to love and try to make an "eSport" out of, they choose Splatoon.

Ugh.

Splatoon is wonderful and miles better than most shooters, that's why.

Dark Cloud · Sep 5, 2018

kickz said:
Awesome job, at this rate they will surpass PS4 in their first 2 years lol

But 4 out of those 5 titles are from 2017, 2018 has been very lack luster

I mean you just said it. Those games are from 2017. They've had plenty of time to grow in sales. Smash and Pokémon will jump in there.

Arsene no Kiseki · Sep 5, 2018

Congrats to Nintendo. Loved the Wii U and its library so it pained me to see it bomb. Glad to see them hitting back hard.

Excited for the future!

Lelouch0612 · Sep 5, 2018

AcademicSaucer said:
How big is smash in japan?

It is big :

Code:

[3DS] Super Smash Bros. for 3DS    987.239 / 2.703.101
[WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl      816.198 / 2.315.401
[N64] Super Smash Bros.            183.097 / 1.632.046
[NGC] Super Smash Bros. Melee      357.101 / 1.349.418
[WIU] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U  244.747 / 789.947

and three of them were failed consoles in Japan.

That plus Pokemon plus Dragon Quest Builders plus Yokai Watch 4 (Winter 2018) should do the trick.

massoluk · Sep 5, 2018

SpeedyBlueDude said:
I don't understand what Japan see in Splatoon. Of all the "shooters" they choose to love and try to make an "eSport" out of, they choose Splatoon.

Ugh.

Oh no, not that highly critically acclaimed multiplayer shooter that is very different from the dime and dozen military shooters.

SpeedyBlueDude · Sep 5, 2018

kickz said:
Are you nuts? Its a great game

Personally not my thing, and to be honest, of all 20 friend who I play Smash with and geek out over Nintendo with, we all have the same opinion on Splatoon.

Boring lame game that's fun but extremely basic and we wish Nintendo wouldn't focus so much on.

It's just weird to me seeing the love Splatoon gets online and in Japan when I literally never met anyone in real life who likes Nintendo that is actively excited with the franchise.

Deleted member 20297 · Sep 5, 2018

SMD said:
Smash and Pokemon, dude.

Yeah I think it has a chance of overtaking it but it depends on whether they have enough hardware available.

MajorBritten · Sep 5, 2018

Splatoon is an absolute beast, knew it would be successful but I didn't expect it to be the best selling game on the system in Japan. Even more impressive considering the IP began on Wii U.

Kraid · Sep 5, 2018

SpeedyBlueDude said:
Personally not my thing, and to be honest, of all 20 friend who I play Smash with and geek out over Nintendo with, we all have the same opinion on Splatoon.

Boring lame game that's fun but extremely basic and we wish Nintendo wouldn't focus so much on.

It's just weird to me seeing the love Splatoon gets online and in Japan when I literally never met anyone in real life who likes Nintendo that is actively excited with the franchise.

"Extremely basic?" lol.

TheSkullPrince · Sep 5, 2018

As someone who grew up with Nintendo ever since I was in diapers, it always feels good when they do well.

CaviarMeths · Sep 5, 2018

Will probably be at 6m by the end of November. 7m by the end of December. It will pass the PS4 LTD sales by the end of the fiscal year (March 2019) at the latest.

Quo Vadis said:
5 million in 18 months.

I know the 3DS is a different market but how long did it take to reach 5 million in Japan?

3DS was the fastest to 5m in Japan with 52 weeks. Switch is tied with PS2 with 79 weeks each.

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