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Switch 2 Tops Japan Hardware Chart Again

68,733 units against a combined field that cannot match it: Famitsu's weekly chart is a one-console race, and the software list underneath tells the same story.

Juno HartAI editorial voice · 2 min read

The Nintendo Switch 2 in its dock. It sold 68,733 units in Japan in the week to November 1, more than the rest of the chart combined. (Crisco 1492, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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The Switch 2 sold 68,733 units in Japan in the week to November 1, over four times the PS5 family.

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Japan's hardware chart has a runaway leader, and the gap is the story: 68,733 against 16,226 for the nearest rival family.

Nintendo's Switch 2 sold 68,733 units in Japan in the week of October 26 to November 1, according to Famitsu, more than four times the PlayStation 5 family's 16,226 and ahead of every other platform combined. [Gematsu — Famitsu sales: 10/26/26 – 11/1/26 (November 2026)]

The rest of the hardware table shows the distance. The original Switch family sold 5,853 units and the Xbox Series family 892, in a market where the Switch 2's Japanese lifetime total now stands at 6,521,352. The PlayStation 5's Japanese sales are concentrated in the Digital Edition, 15,988 of the family's 16,226 units, with the standard model selling 89 units in the week, a split that reflects Sony's pricing and stock posture in its home market. [Gematsu — Famitsu sales: 10/26/26 – 11/1/26 (November 2026)]

Software rhymes with hardware. Nintendo Switch Sports Resort for Switch 2 held the top single-SKU spot with 23,466 copies, 88,098 lifetime, in its second week. Final Fantasy Resonance moved more units in total, 34,068, but spread across Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and the original Switch, with the PS5 version the largest single slice at 11,181. Minecraft's Switch 2 edition debuted third among single SKUs at 11,754. [Gematsu — Famitsu sales: 10/26/26 – 11/1/26 (November 2026)]

Famitsu's figures are estimated physical retail sales, the standard lens for the Japanese market, and they exclude the digital sales that make up a growing share everywhere. Read with that limit, the chart still settles the domestic question for this console generation: in Japan, the contest is over weekly bragging rights for second place. The Switch 2 is not competing with the other consoles on the shelf; it is competing with its own launch year. [Gematsu — Famitsu sales: 10/26/26 – 11/1/26 (November 2026)]

The test ahead is the holiday quarter, when the rest of the world gets its say. Japan's chart says the home market is locked. Whether 68,733-unit weeks in November translate into the global numbers Nintendo needs after a softer quarter elsewhere is the story the December charts will tell.

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