For the first time in 8 years, Xbox outsold PlayStation in Japan last week
The Xbox Series S outsold the PlayStation 5 in Japan last week, according to new sales data.
According to sales data published by Famitsu, the Xbox Series S on its own (not including Series X) sold 6,120 units, whereas the PS5 and PS5 digital edition sold a combined 2,693 units.
For comparison, last week the PlayStation 5 sold 49,798 units, whereas the Xbox Series S sold 10,00, which appears to suggest that, like in many other parts of the world, the sales fluctuation is due to the availability of consoles.
Similarly, the Xbox Series X sold 3,508 units last week, compared to only 105 this week.
This milestone is notable due to the Xbox family’s famously soft sales figures across the generations in Japan.
According to a recent report, as of February, only 2.3 million Xbox consoles had been sold in Japan across all generations since the original console came to the country 20 years ago.
The vast majority of these were Xbox 360 sales, of which there were 1,616,128.
As pointed out by @GameDataLibrary, Xbox hasn’t outsold PlayStation since the launch of the Xbox One in 2014. Since the inception of the Xbox brand, it has outsold PlayStation fewer than ten times.
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While the PlayStation 5 got off to a great start in Japan, even selling 1 million units faster than the massively successful PlayStation 4, inconsistency of stock and the dominance of the Nintendo Switch has seen Sony fall to a firm second place in the market.
As of the start of March, the various Xbox consoles had sold the following number of units:
In context, Xbox console sales are tiny compared to the other platforms in the Japanese market (PS5 has already sold over 1m units in the
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