Nintendo has now dominated Japanese sales for its 18th year in a row.
Since then, the majority of Japan’s top ten best-selling games every year have been on Nintendo platforms, according to historical Famitsu data.Since 2004, Japan’s annual best-selling game has been on a non-Nintendo platform only twice .On the hardware front, only one year in the last 18 has seen a non-Nintendo console on top in Japan:Of the 10 best-selling physical games in Japan in 2022, nine of them were on Switch.
Indeed, the Switch sold more than three times every other console combined, with total sales of over 4.8 million, bringing its lifetime total in Japan to over 27.7 million. ‘s number 1 slot is perhaps unsurprising given that the game’s sales have been sizeable ever since it launched in November 2022.“the highest global sales level for any software on any Nintendo platform within the first three days”In its first three days on sale in Japan, the game sold more than 2.5 million physical copies, leading to complete dominance of the Japanese physical software sales charts on its launch week.Scarlet and Violet accounted for 96.
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