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The story
On 5ch’s “Hardware & Industry” (Geha) board, reports that the PS5 had sold out in Amazon’s sales rankings drew a crowd to the thread. Posters noted the PS5 also outselling the Switch 2 on Yodobashi, Rakuten, and Edion, briefly climbing as high as third place overall, while others claimed the Switch 2 had sunk outside the top 10 — ranking even below the DualSense controller. Some attributed this to a price cut to ¥52,778 and to leaked jailbreak information for the PS5, which some speculated drove demand from pirated-software users. The thread was split on whether this reflects genuine demand or demand fueled by piracy.
What people said
No.1 and No.2 are probably Ocarina of Time and the Switch 2 Zelda Edition, right?
Online retail rankings aren't the whole world, you know?
Oh hello there, Switch 2 — losing worldwide and in earnings reports, where apparently all that matters is Japan's weekly sales chart
(the source text has a garbled character here) — guess it ended up losing in Japan too
And being happy that it's selling thanks to piracy demand — isn't that embarrassing?
Trailer dropped August 28 and the Trash-Station still didn't sell.
It only started selling after the piracy reports from two weeks ago.
Trash-Station lol
Edion
Nintendo [With Bonus] Nintendo Switch 2 (Japanese / domestic version) Splatoon Raiders Set BEESKB6PE
Stock: 557 units
It's just concentrated in online sales, learn that already 😅
Gets smacked down by the results every single time and never learns
Even a washed-up Trash-Switch is still the Trash-Switch, and it's only been out a little over a year
Losing to a PS5 that's about to enter its 7th year? No way
The PS5 kept losing to the original Switch the whole time it was in its 8th year
Discounting a plain standard unit that much — not even a limited edition or bundled with a game — something's probably coming soon
The basic hardware doesn't change at all, so yeah, jailbreaking it would make that possible
This is why Nintendo fanboys (豚, literally 'pigs') are like this
There's precedent for this — the PSPgo wasn't selling at all until the moment it got cracked, then it suddenly started selling. I'll believe you once the actual games start selling too lol
Nah, being able to use it like a PC sounds really interesting
Plus there's a black model too
Meanwhile the Switch 2 is getting a bundle with a game next month, so people will just wait for that, right?
From Sony's perspective, perfect timing to clear out inventory
Right now it's getting utterly crushed by the PS5 lol
The Trash-Station (ゴミステ) finally just started beating a Switch that's in its 10th year in weekly sales — how weak is that?
Background and Key Points
There’s a generational gap at play here: the PS5 launched in 2020 and is about six years old, while the Switch 2 is a brand-new console that launched in 2025. In Japan, weekly hardware sales are typically dominated by Nintendo consoles, so any case where the PS5 pulls ahead is rare enough to become a talking point on its own — which is why reports of it selling out on retail sites quickly caught attention. That said, the “sold out” reports discussed in the thread refer to rankings and stock status on individual retail sites like Amazon and Rakuten, not the official weekly sales rankings compiled by outlets such as Famitsu — the two are easily confused but are not the same thing. The idea that a leaked “jailbreak” fueled demand from pirated-software buyers was also pure speculation within the thread, with no supporting evidence presented. The price cut to ¥52,778 is also seen as a factor behind the sellout, raising the possibility that this is simply a temporary spike in demand rather than a lasting trend.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (“Hardware & Industry / Geha”) thread “PS5 Sells Out on Amazon Too!! Did the Switch 2 Just Lose Weekly Sales in Japan as Well lol.”
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