Nintendo Swap 2 helped develop the Japanese dwelling online game market by almost 40% in 2025, as the corporate prolonged its over two-decade dominance over Japan’s gross sales charts.
Swap 2 offered 3.78 million items in 2025, making it Japan’s fastest-selling console ever and accounting for greater than half of all dwelling consoles offered that 12 months, in keeping with annual gross sales knowledge revealed by Famitsu.
For the 21st consecutive 12 months, Nintendo video games dominated the best-selling bodily video games chart, with Swap and Swap 2 video games taking 9 of the highest ten locations, and certain 18 of the highest 20.
Swap 2’s Mario Kart World offered an enormous 2.66 million bodily copies, making it the annual best-selling console recreation in Japan since Pokémon Scarlet & Violet and Splatoon 3, which had been launched in 2022. Final 12 months’s best-selling recreation in Japan was Mario Occasion Jamboree with 954,261 gross sales.
In consequence, Japan’s home video games market is estimated to have grown from 301.32 billion yen in 2024 to 418.13 billion yen in 2025. The vast majority of this progress comes from {hardware} gross sales, which rose from 189.4 billion yen to 282.6 billion yen.
Japan’s best-selling console {hardware} final 12 months was Nintendo Swap 2 (3,784,067), adopted by Nintendo Swap (1,520,384), PlayStation 5 (879,204), Xbox Sequence X|S (31,226), and PlayStation 4 (1,087).
Meaning Nintendo has had the best-selling recreation {hardware} in Japan in all however one 12 months (when PSP was the main platform) for the previous 20 years, throughout Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Swap, and now, Nintendo Swap 2.
Nintendo’s closest competitor in Japan, PlayStation 5, has now seen its gross sales decline for 2 consecutive years. In 2025, PS5 gross sales had been down 60%, regardless of the launch of a brand new, cheaper mannequin.
PS5 offered 1.4 million items in 2024, which was down considerably in comparison with the two.6 million offered in 2023, when the supply of consoles was boosted following Covid-related provide points. Sony raised the value of PS5 in Japan by 20% final 12 months.
Japan’s Finest Promoting Video games of 2025
(Particular person platform variations / Bodily solely / Supply: Famitsu)
- Mario Kart World (Swap 2) – 2,668,381
- Pokémon Legends Z-A (Swap) – 1,529,823
- Pokémon Legends Z-A (Swap 2) – 1,004,154
- Monster Hunter Wilds (PS5) – 838,319
- Tremendous Mario Occasion Jamboree (Swap) – 498,397
- Donkey Kong Bananza (Swap 2) – 435,206
- Kirby Air Riders (Swap 2) – 424,837
- Minecraft (Swap) – 346,606
- Mario Kart 7 Deluxe (Swap) – 342,866
- Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake (Swap) – 316,439
Famitsu has not revealed locations past ten, however Recreation Information Library’s weekly gross sales archive suggests the next further placements (gross sales marked with ~ are estimated):
- Animal Crossing New Horizons (Swap) – 288,683
- Donkey Kong Nation Returns HD (Swap) – 277,204
- Momotaro Dentetsu 2 (Swap) ~233,000
- Tamagotchi Plaza (Swap) – ~222,931
- Ghost of Yotei (PS5) – 199,870
- Momotaro Dentetsu 2 (Swap 2) – ~190,000
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Swap) – ~179,237
- Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (Swap 2) – ~147,000
- Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake (Swap 2) – ~135,000
- Tremendous Mario Galaxy + Tremendous Mario Galaxy 2 (Swap) – ~134,000
