High 10 best-selling video video games in Japan – Yr 2022

Nintendo Change and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet end the 12 months within the prime spots

In accordance with Famitsu journal’s end-of-year report for 2022, the annual gross sales whole 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% enhance 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 bought over 4 million models since its late November launch.

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

Reviews for December confirmed Splatoon 3 in 1st place, it was solely due to an inflow of Christmas gross sales that noticed Pokémon Scarlet and Violet finish 2022 because the best-selling recreation of the 12 months.

Actually, 9 out of the highest 10 video games for 2022 had been Nintendo Change titles, 7 of which had been revealed by both Nintendo themselves or one among their associates. The one recreation not revealed by Nintendo to make the highest 10 was Bandai Namco’s Elden Ring, which completed the 12 months at quantity 10.

The European and UK gross sales charts however ended the 12 months 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 enormously.

Nonetheless, it’s price mentioning that if the European charts had mixed the two Pokémon video games the identical means the Japanese charts do, they might have completed the 12 months increased on the record.

For the best-selling console of the 12 months, it’s no shock that the Nintendo Change got here out on prime as soon as extra, promoting over 4.8 million gadgets in Japan in 2022. This marks a powerful whole of 27.7 million models bought 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 bought. This determine doubles the general gross sales since launch, which now stands at 2.4 million.

The Xbox Collection X|S additionally had a very good 12 months in Japan, promoting practically 270,000 consoles in whole. This determine takes Microsoft’s whole variety of consoles bought in Japan to nearly 400,000, which means that Xbox greater than doubled its console gross sales from the earlier 12 months.

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