Top 10 best-selling video games in Japan – Year 2022

Nintendo Swap and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet end the yr within the prime spots

Based on Famitsu journal’s end-of-year report for 2022, the annual gross sales complete for boxed video games and {hardware} gadgets in Japan got here in at a whopping ¥374.8 billion ($2.9 billion USD).

This spectacular determine marks a 4% improve in comparison with the ¥361.4 billion ($2.8 billion) spent by Japanese players in 2021.

Ending within the prime place for the best-selling recreation in 2022 was Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Collectively the pair has offered over 4 million models since its late November launch.

In a considerably stunning end result, Splatoon 3 took the 2nd place place, with greater than 3.7 million retail copies being offered.

Experiences for December confirmed Splatoon 3 in 1st place, it was solely because of an inflow of Christmas gross sales that noticed Pokémon Scarlet and Violet finish 2022 because the best-selling recreation of the yr.

In reality, 9 out of the highest 10 video games for 2022 had been Nintendo Swap titles, 7 of which had been printed by both Nintendo themselves or certainly one of their associates. The one recreation not printed by Nintendo to make the highest 10 was Bandai Namco’s Elden Ring, which completed the yr at quantity 10.

The European and UK gross sales charts then again ended the yr with neither Pokémon Violet nor Scarlet making the highest 10, exhibiting as soon as once more that the gaming tradition between the 2 areas nonetheless differs vastly.

Nonetheless, it’s price mentioning that if the European charts had mixed the two Pokémon video games the identical method the Japanese charts do, they might have completed the yr increased on the record.

For the best-selling console of the yr, it’s no shock that the Nintendo Swap got here out on prime as soon as extra, promoting over 4.8 million gadgets in Japan in 2022. This marks a formidable complete of 27.7 million models offered within the area since March 2017, when the console was first launched.

The PS5 took 2nd place in console gross sales, with some 1.2 million consoles offered. This determine doubles the general gross sales since launch, which now stands at 2.4 million.

The Xbox Sequence X|S additionally had a superb yr in Japan, promoting practically 270,000 consoles in complete. This determine takes Microsoft’s complete variety of consoles offered in Japan to virtually 400,000, which means that Xbox greater than doubled its console gross sales from the earlier yr.

That’s it for the rundown of the Japanese charts for 2022. Try beneath for the total prime 10 record, as compiled by Famitsu: