Switch 2 hardware moved just 26,435 units in Japan last week per Famitsu, a sharp drop that screams post-launch cooldown after the price hike bleed. Square Enix's Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales launched as the week's top new release with 38,517 combined physical copies—23,674 on Switch 2 and 14,843 on PS5—proving Square can still move units when they ship something people actually want. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream kept the crown with another 34,957 sales, its lifetime now past 1.38 million, while Konami's Powerful Pro Baseball held second at 28,409.

This ain't launch hype territory anymore; the console's lifetime sits at 5.94 million in Japan and the numbers show it. Elliot's debut split across platforms highlights Square's cross-gen strategy working where others flop, but the hardware dip reminds everyone that gacha whales and mobile spenders aren't propping up console boxes the same way. Japanese gamers clearly prioritized the familiar Tomodachi grind over rushing new hardware after the sticker shock.

Whale watching these charts, the real story is steady software moving while hardware cools—classic Japan market reality where trust in the brand keeps the ecosystem alive even when units slow.