{"id":35502,"date":"2026-06-04T18:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/35502\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:29:17","slug":"switch-2s-price-hike-saves-ps5s-blushes-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/35502\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch 2’s Price Hike Saves PS5’s Blushes in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Switch<\/a> Image: Push Square<\/p>\n

In the last few weeks, the Switch 2 has been outselling the PS5 by more than 10:1 in Japan, as consumers have rushed to beat the price hike<\/a> on Nintendo\u2019s hardware.<\/p>\n

For those who missed the news, the flagship language-locked model of the Switch 2 went up to \u00a559,980 (~$375) on 25th May, making it more expensive<\/a> than the equivalent PS5\u2019s \u00a555,000 (~$344).<\/p>\n

For the past few weeks, consumers have been buying Nintendo\u2019s console in droves, pushing sales above 200k on a couple of occasions. But now the price increase has gone into effect, the gap between the Switch 2 and the PS5 has closed.<\/p>\n

According to Famitsu<\/a> data for the week ending 31st May, the Switch 2 sold 31k units compared to the PS5\u2019s 8k units. It\u2019s still a big difference between the duo, but it\u2019s not the blowout we\u2019d been seeing before.<\/p>\n

Obviously the Japanese market is extremely unique, and there\u2019s simply no overcoming the power of Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> or even titles like Tomodachi Life<\/a> there. But there is a small window of opportunity here if Sony can keep the PS5\u2019s price below Nintendo\u2019s machine.<\/p>\n

What will be particularly interesting is if the Switch 2 slips further; obviously it\u2019s already raced to a pretty sizable install base in Japan anyway, but there is some pressure on Nintendo right now, because it\u2019s still trying to grow the console\u2019s footprint at a time when component prices are through the roof.<\/p>\n

One thing I\u2019d also quickly like to spotlight is 007 First Light<\/a>, which sold pretty well on the PS5, and was beaten at retail by only Tomodachi Life. That\u2019s a decent result for the IOI action game.<\/p>\n

Software Sales<\/p>\n

[NSW] Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream (Nintendo, 04\/16\/26) \u2013 52,483 (1,259,031)
\n[PS5] 007 First Light (IO Interactive, 05\/27\/26) \u2013 20,690 (New)
\n[SW2] Pokemon Pokopia (The Pokemon Company, 03\/05\/26) \u2013 14,122 (1,038,407)
\n[SW2] Yoshi and the Mysterious Book (Nintendo, 05\/21\/26) \u2013 12,701 (52,362)
\n[PS5] Utawarerumono: Past and Present Rediscovered (AQUAPLUS, 05\/28\/26) \u2013 6,225 (New)
\n[SW2] Mario Kart World (Nintendo, 06\/05\/25) \u2013 5,865 (2,958,073)
\n[NSW] Demon Kill Demon: Yomi 1984 (Experience, 05\/28\/26) \u2013 3,719 (New)
\n[NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06\/21\/18) \u2013 3,480 (4,214,562)
\n[SW2] Utawarerumono: Past and Present Rediscovered (AQUAPLUS, 05\/28\/26) \u2013 2,863 (New)
\n[SW2] Super Mario Party Jamboree \u2013 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV (Nintendo, 07\/24\/25) \u2013 2,858 (202,741)<\/p>\n

Hardware Sales<\/p>\n

Switch 2 \u2013 31,751 (5,865,213)
\nPlayStation 5 Digital Edition \u2013 6,527 (1,302,820)
\nSwitch OLED Model \u2013 4,162 (9,585,830)
\nSwitch Lite \u2013 1,810 (6,972,953)
\nPlayStation 5 Pro \u2013 1,479 (360,308)
\nXbox Series X Digital Edition \u2013 408 (31,544)
\nPlayStation 5 \u2013 367 (5,919,834)
\nXbox Series X \u2013 304 (327,214)
\nSwitch \u2013 229 (20,300,305)
\nXbox Series S \u2013 123 (342,219)<\/p>\n

[source famitsu.com<\/a>, via gematsu.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\tSee Also<\/p>\n

\"Sammy<\/p>\n

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Push Square In the last few weeks, the Switch 2 has been outselling the PS5 by more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2043,8,33,483,1846,2042],"class_list":["post-35502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-hardware","tag-japan","tag-nihon","tag-ps5","tag-sales","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}