Japan is PlayStation's turf - it's where Sony was founded and where the original PlayStation was first launched in 1994. So, it should not come off as a surprise that the PlayStation has almost always outsold the Xbox in the land of the rising sun, and by a huge margin too.
However, for some reason, this didn't happen last week.
According to the latest data (courtesy of Weekly Famitsu), the Xbox Series S sold 6,120 units alone. In comparison, the combined sales of PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition didn't even reach half that figure at just 2,693 units. The last time that the Xbox outsold a PlayStation was in 2014 when Xbox One hit the market in Japan. Since then, the PS4 and the PS5 have sold more units compared to their Xbox competitors every week.
Here are the complete hardware sales figures from May 9-15 in Japan: **Switch OLED -**35,868 Switch- 20,443 Switch Lite- 9,011 Xbox Series S- 6,120 **PS5 -**2,240 PS5 Digital Edition- 453 New 2DS****LL- 235 Xbox Series X- 105 PS4- 22 Now that the Xbox Series S has outsold the PS5 in Japan, is this a sign of things to come? Probably not.