{"id":451178,"date":"2026-03-01T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451178\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:04:09","slug":"japan-even-nintendo-switch-sales-have-been-higher-than-ps5-since-switch-2-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451178\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan: Even Nintendo Switch sales have been higher than PS5 since Switch 2 launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"930\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ps5_switch_2.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"389113\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2025\/11\/18\/sony-seemingly-committed-to-japan-only-ps5-after-seeing-success-of-japan-only-nintendo-switch-2\/ps5_switch_2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mynintendonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ps5_switch_2.jpg?fit=1600%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ps5_switch_2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mynintendonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ps5_switch_2.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mynintendonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ps5_switch_2.jpg?fit=930%2C523&amp;ssl=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2025\/07\/26\/sony-is-seemingly-looking-to-bring-more-playstation-games-to-switch-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony<\/a> has been trying its hardest to improve the sluggish sales of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2025\/02\/16\/xbox-to-show-nintendo-and-playstation-logos-in-all-future-showcases\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation 5<\/a> in Japan even launching a Japan-only PlayStation 5 console which is quite a bit cheaper. This hasn\u2019t really made a differences as Sony\u2019s current console continues to be <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pierre485_\/status\/2027091091854438595\" rel=\"nofollow\">outsold<\/a> by the original Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo Switch has sold over 845.000 units since the <a href=\"https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2026\/02\/25\/jeff-grubb-says-playstation-studios-got-gran-turismo-7-running-on-nintendo-switch-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> released in Japan. Whereas Sony\u2019s PlayStation 5 has only sold 545.000 units in the same time frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nintendo Switch (1) sold over 845.000 units since Nintendo Switch 2 released in Japan. For comparison, PS5 sold 545.000 units in the same time frame.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony has been trying its hardest to improve the sluggish sales of the PlayStation 5 in Japan even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-451178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}