On Monday, Famitsu published its final weekly software chart for 2024. Although the publication has yet to collate an annual chart, Game Data Library’s archive confirms that at least 13 of the 15 best-selling console games last year were Nintendo Switch titles.
Only one non-Nintendo title made the top ten last year: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for PS5, which charted tenth. The other PS5 title in the top 15 is Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake at 14th.
That means Nintendo has now dominated the physical software charts in Japan every year since 2005. In 2004, eight out of the top 10 best-selling games were PS2 titles, but Nintendo has taken the majority of Japan’s top ten sellers every year since.
Based on Famitsu’s weekly hardware sales for 2024, Switch was also comfortably the year’s best-selling hardware platform, with PS5 outselling Switch (all versions combined) during only three weeks of the year.
That means Nintendo has had the best-selling game hardware in Japan in all but one year (when PSP was the leading platform) for the past two decades, across Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, and Switch.
Despite approaching eight years since it launched, analysis of Nintendo’s financial data and weekly Famitsu sales shows that Switch sold just over 3 million units in Japan last year. That compares to over 4 million in 2023, and nearly 5 million in 2022.
Nintendo’s closest competitor in Japan, PlayStation 5, sold around 1.4 million units in 2024, based on Famitsu’s weekly sales data. That’s significantly lower than the 2.6 million units PS5 sold in 2023, when availability of consoles was boosted following Covid-related supply issues. Sony also raised the price of PS5 in Japan by 20% last year.
At over 35 million sales total, Nintendo Switch is Japan’s best-selling game console to date, beating Nintendo DS’s 33 million.
Super Mario Party Jamboree! (Switch)- 954,261
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (Switch) – 930,505
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – (Switch) 536,019
Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Switch) – 419,854
Momotaro Dentetsu World (Switch) – 411,406
Animal Crossing: New Horizons – (Switch) 377,781
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Switch) – 372,903
Minecraft (Switch) – 368,364
Jikkyo Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 (Switch) – 341,908
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (PS5) – 339,168
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Switch) – 283,744
Nintendo Switch Sports (Switch) – 267,937
Pokémon Scarlet / Violet (Switch) – 244,663
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (PS5) – 230,581
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Switch) – 222,524
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