Xbox stays strong in Japan with another week of good sales for Series X and S

Microsoft consoles are very close to overtaking PlayStation again in Asia.

We informed you in May that xbox In data corresponding to a given week, it managed to sell more consoles than PlayStation in Japan, which is very striking because microsoft It has always cost him more to succeed in this Asian market, which is much more connected to Nintendo and Sony. Well, it almost happened again this week.

In last week’s figures collected by Famitsu, we confirm that this is almost happening again, and that’s it. both Series X and Series S had another good week commercially While taking the first place in Japanese territory with 4,881 units, Series S was surprisingly close with 4,034 console sales.

Series X and S combined very close to PS5Combined, there are 8,915 new Xbox consoles ending up in the Japanese homes. Very close to the 9,181 PlayStation 5 sold if we add both models: 7,257 of the disc standard model and 1,924 of the Digital Edition. Since launch, the PS5 has sold 1,703,184 machines in Japan, while the Xbox should be content with just 247,974 units.

As always, this weekly data is hard to read accurately because stock issues alter sales, but that doesn’t mean the Xbox has been recording better data lately than previous generations. On your own behalf Nintendo Switch remains unbeatableabout 60,000 pieces in total with different models.

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