Xbox’s Japanese sales momentum continued last week with another decent showing for Series X/S consoles.

Having only managed to outsellPS5on two previous occasions this console generation,Xbox Series X/Scame close to doing so again during the week ended June 26.

Xbox has recorded another strong sales week in Japan

According to data published onFamitsu,XboxSeries X sold 4,881 units and Xbox Series S sold 4,034, for a combined weekly total of 8,915.

Sales ofMicrosoft’s consoles fell narrowly short ofSony’s rival new-gen system, PS5, which sold 9,181 units, including 7,257 of the disc model and 1,924 of the Digital Edition.

For the first time in 8 years, Xbox outsold PlayStation in Japan last week

While notable given how infrequently it occurs, sales of Xbox Series X/S matching those of PS5 speaks largely to the ongoing stock issues being faced by Sony in its home country.

Since the consoles launched in November 2020, PS5 has sold 1,703,184 units compared to Xbox Series X/S sales of 247,974 units.

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Xbox Series X/S has outsold PS5 just twice on a weekly basis this generation,in mid-Mayand againearlier this month.

Nintendo Switchdominated Japanese hardware sales last week, moving 56,549 units across the standard, OLED and Lite versions of the console.

Having launched in 2017, Switch’s lifetimes sales in Japan recently surpassed 25 million units.

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