Nintendo Swap Sports activities, which launched on April 29, 2022, took the highest spot on the Japanese charts for the month of Could 2022.
The sport bought nearly 420 000 items throughout Could and was bearly outsold by the Wii Sports activities, which launched in 2006 and through its first 5 weeks, Wii Sports activities bought 553 000 items. It’s also value noting that Nintendo Swap Sports activities was Could’s best-selling recreation in Europe. Nintendo Swap Sports activities pushed Kirby and the Forgotten Land down from the highest spot of the Japanese gross sales charts, the place it has stood for the final couple of months.
The newest installment of the Kirby franchise bought 117 000 copies throughout Could, bringing the gross sales to a complete of 736 287 copies, bought in Japan alone ever because the recreation launched on March 25, 2022.
Nintendo Swap title, eBaseball Highly effective Professional Yajyu, went down by one place to No.3 and the PlayStation 4 model of the sport got here in at No.7. The 2 variations of the sport bought 119 900 items in Could 2022 which implies that it will have crushed Kirby and the Forgotten land if the variations themselves weren’t thought-about to be separate SKUs.
The one different new title that managed to achieve the Prime Ten on the Japanese Could 2022 charts was Koei Tecmo’s Taiko Risshiden V DX. This title launched on Nintendo Swap on Could 19 and got here in at No.10 by managing to promote greater than 25 000 items.
In whole, over 1.6 million video video games have been bought in Japan in Could and Nintendo Swap titles accounted for 86.6% of the gross sales.
Nintendo Swap additionally bought 368 000 consoles in Could alone which brings the full gross sales figures to 24.8 million items.
Under are the highest ten best-selling video video games in Japan in Could 2022:
1. Nintendo Swap Sports activities (Swap)
2. Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Swap)
3. eBaseball Highly effective Professional Yakyu 2022 (Swap)
4. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Swap)
5. Minecraft: Swap Version (Swap)
6. Tremendous Smash Bros. Final (Swap))
7. eBaseball Highly effective Professional Yakyu 2022 (Swap)
8. Ring Match Journey (Swap)
9. Mario Social gathering Superstars (Swap)
10. Taiko Risshiden V DX (Swap)
