Nintendo Switch Bate Records in Japan: Copó all 30 best-selling games of the week

The dominance condition of Nintendo Switch in Japan reaches a new mile that we did not see since November 1988: The 30 best-selling video games in physical format of lJapant week were a single platform, Nintendo Switch . After the position of Famicom in the market, Emperor of the Japanese market during his glory years, the joy-with machine is known ahead of his compeptides on a scale much higher than we saw in previous generations.

Because Nintendo 3DS had to deal with PSP's lJapant years and an intermittent PS4; While Nintendo DS and PSP shared, despite the domain of the double-screen console, one of the ages of the highest boom that is remembered in the Japanese market, especially for commercial successes at the level of platform paths.

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A look at the figures: Sales of consoles and games from August 2 to 8

Let's look at the data, which speak for themselves. In the week from August 2 to 8, Nintendo Switch sold 72.883 consoles . Throughout the year 2021 carries 3.43 million units sold ; In total, it accumulates 20.76 million consoles . In just a few months the 24.57 million accumulated from Nintendo 3DS will exceed, in need of knowing whether to exceed the more than 32 million units of the historic Nintendo DS in Japan. PLAYSTATION 5 , For its part, sold 13,530 units In those seven days, giving a total of 698,583 units at all 2021.

Hardware and software go hand in hand; No one is explained without the other. The 30 best-selling video games of this period were, from top to bottom, by Nintendo Switch. The Top-30 wJapan Super Mario Maker 2, a videogame of 2019, with 2,256 physical copies sold. That is, the best-selling PlayStation video game of the lJapant week in Japan sold, at most, less than 2,256 units.

A context marked by circumstances: About the Nintendo Switch position

With Nintendo Switch there is no margin for competition ; In fact, several phenomena coincide at the same time. On the one hand, a hybrid console that hJapan managed to take the attention of the traditional fan of Nintendo and who remained for decades rooted to its portable segment, with sagJapan willing to beat all records at the sales level.

On the other, one of the most delicate situations in the history of PlayStation at a commercial level. Your hardware does not take off and missing great exclusive games vendeconsolJapan; Person , Dragon Quest and Monster Hunter - Historical Emblems of PlayStation - or remain unlike or are elsewhere. Xbox, on the other hand, is still looking for its place, but it does not come by the time.