[Japan] Famitsu sales for January 2026 (Top 5 Software, Publishers, Hardware)
Here’s the latest sales report from Famitsu, with Hardware and Software sales for January 2026 in Japan (December 29th to January 25th, so 4 weeks in total).
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Top 5 Software
New year, same game at the top of the monthly Software charts! In January, Mario Kart World was once again the best-selling game in Japan with around 124,000 units sold. Despite the discontinuation of the hardware bundle, it continued to drive Nintendo Switch 2 Software sales.
But while Mario Kart World did continue to dominate Software sales in Japan, if you were to combine SKUs, then Momotarou Dentetsu 2 ~Anata no Machi mo Kitto Aru~ would be #1 with around 143,000 units sold.
The two versions of Pokémon Legends: Z-A sold a combined 134.000 units, making the game the #2 best-selling one in January.
01./01. [NS2] Mario Kart World # <RCE> (Nintendo) {2025.06.05} (¥9.073) – 124.320 / 2.792.701 (-70%)
02./06. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu 2: Your Town Must Be There Too – Eastern Japan Edition + Western Japan Edition <TBL> (Konami) {2025.11.13} (¥7.255) – 75,503 / 1.595.038 (-17%)
03./03. [NS2] Pokemon Legends Z-A: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition # <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2025.10.16} (¥7.389) – 68.416 / 1.072.570 (-63%)
04./05. [NS2] Momotaro Dentetsu 2: Your Town Must Be There Too – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition – Eastern Japan Edition + Western Japan Edition <TBL> (Konami) {2025.11.13} (¥8.164) – 67.576 / 188.535 <60-80%> (-29%)
05./02. [NSW] Pokemon Legends Z-A <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2025.10.16} (¥6.480) – 65.215 / 1.595.038 (-71%)
Market Share
NS2 – 3
NSW – 2
Publishers
For Nintendo, 2026 started the same way 2025 ended: at the top of the Publishers Top 3. The company sold around 561.000 units in January, with Mario Kart World and Animal Crossing: New Horizons (including the newly released Nintendo Switch 2 Edition) contributing a good chunk of those sales, and with the usual evergreen titles making up the rest.
Konami is #2 with around 166.000 units sold. Those sales mostly come from the two versions of Momotarou Dentetsu 2 ~Anata no Machi mo Kitto Aru~.
Finally, The Pokémon Company dropped to #3 in January with 148.000 units sold. The two versions of Pokémon Legends: Z-A account for the majority of those sales.
- Nintendo – 561.000
- Konami – 166.000
- The Pokémon Company – 148.000
Hardware
January is a fairly slow period for the video games market in Japan, and yet the Nintendo Switch 2 still saw strong sales with around 453,000 units sold (a good chunk come Week 1 and New Year’s specifically, though).
And last month, the Nintendo Switch 2 passed another milestone: it’s now sold over 4 million units since launch. Not bad for a console that launched barely 7 months ago!
Also, Famitsu points out that January saw a notable increase in the sale of the stand-alone Nintendo Switch 2. This is obviously due to Nintendo stopping the production of the Mario Kart World at the end of December 2025, which logically led to a lower sales ratio for that bundle.
- Nintendo Switch 2 – 453.433 (previous month: 815.632)
- Nintendo Switch – 91.109 (previous month: 153.619)
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Source: Famitsu
Some data compiled by: Chris1964 (Install Base)
