Overview
- Famitsu’s Japan boxed-sales chart for the week of May 18–24, 2026 shows Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream as the top physical game with 64,899 retail copies sold.
- Switch 2 posted an unusually large single-week jump of 247,880 units, taking its Famitsu-tracked lifetime to 5,833,462 units.
- Multiple Switch 2 titles filled the top 10 that week, led by new release Yoshi and the Mysterious Book at 39,661 boxed sales, underlining Nintendo’s dominance of Japan’s physical retail market.
- Famitsu’s figures cover only Japan boxed (physical) sales and exclude digital downloads and overseas markets, so actual player reach and total sales are higher than these numbers indicate.
- Publishers and analysts link the late-May hardware spike to consumers buying before the region’s May 25 price increase, a pattern that could foreshadow similar pre‑hike buying in other markets when prices change.