In the long-awaited return of VGCultureHQ's podcast Plugged-In, Morgan and Paul discuss the latest gaming news surrounding the Switch OLED, Nintendo's first and second half of 2021, their favorite games thus far from the year, and their most anticipated titles leading up to later in 2021.
They also discuss at length Skyward Sword HD, with Morgan from the perspective of a veteran, hardcore Skyward Sword fanatic, and Paul as a newcomer to the game.
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Famitsu has published its estimated physical game software data for Japan for week of June 2, 2025 to June 8, 2025.
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
Switch 2 – 947,931 (New)
PlayStation 5 – 14,535 (5,690,661)
Switch OLED Model – 8,040 (9,060,680)
Switch Lite – 6,089 (6,581,795)
PlayStation 5 Pro – 4,230 (218,056)
Switch – 2,482 (20,109,545)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,017 (974,094)
Xbox Series S – 163 (337,686)
Xbox Series X – 113 (320,660)
Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 57 (20,820)
PlayStation 4 – 24 (7,929,628)
So its official. Switch 2 dethroned PS2 in Japan for the biggest hardware launch ever.
Tripled the switch launch numbers, yeah Nintendo's domination of the Japanese market is going smooth
And take note. This is just for retail sales only; sales from the Nintendo Japanese website are not yet included.
Xbox boss Phil Spencer explains that the new ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X is Microsoft's best collaboration between gaming and Windows teams.
