Later today, Minecraft will arrive on the Nintendo Switch, but consumers should be warned that they will require an additional set of Joy-Con controllers if they wish to enjoy local multiplayer.
Nintendo has shared new data revealing the top top 30 most-downloaded Switch games in North America for September 2018.
My Hero One’s Justice sold 24,626 copies on Switch and 16,026 copies on PlayStation 4 for a total of 40,652 retail copies sold during its opening week, according to the latest Media Create sales figures.
The Crew 2 for PlayStation 4 was the highest selling new release in Japan last week with 17,585 opening retail sales, the latest Media Create sales figures reveal.
The Switch version of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana followed at 6,431 sales. To compare, the PS Vita version launched at 43,753 sales in July 2016, and the PlayStation 4 version at 27,741 units in May 2017.
On the hardware side, Switch sold 50,762 units, the PlayStation 4 family sold 18,811 units, and the 3DS family sold 7,323 units.
8/10 first game are for Switch. Another nice week for Nintendo in Japan. I find though the Ys VIII numbers low for its release.
Its the third time it releases over there Vita in 2016, ps4 some time later and switch now, so its not going to sell as much
NIS put out a vague statment saying Ys VIII had a bigger week on the Switch than the PS Vita and PS4 versions (separately, not combined). So let's wait for the final numbers.
Japanese hardware sales as of 07/01/2018 according to Media Create:
PS4 (released 02.22.2014): 6,851,509*
SWITCH (released 03.03.2017): 4,506,235
*includes Pro sales
Switch is doing very well in Japan. Curious how sales will be when Pokémon and Smash release.
Pokemon and Smash will make the hardware sales absolutely explode in Japan. If the Switch isn't ahead of PS4 by then (which I think can happen), it'll definitely do it after those release.
wow!! Interesting analysis. so date to date, Switch has better numbers than PS4 in Japan.
Switch sales are continuing to climb in Japan while PS4 sales seem to have peaked in Japan. A new Gundam game releases and sales went down from the previous week.The Crew 2 didn't seem to help either. Crazy. KMH 3 can't come out soon enough. You can't blame this one PS4 stock issues.
Ooooh money grabbin Nintendo
you need to be able to move the camera around so I'm guessing that's why
Considering the game makes full use of controllers, why would this surprise anyone? It's not the type of game where using one joy-con is feasible.
The website should be called obviouspixel
Well yeah, camera control of course. Probably better just to buy a pro controller.