Top 10 best-selling video games in Japan – May 2022 – WholesGame

Nintendo Switch Sports, which launched on April 29, 2022, took the highest spot on the Japanese charts for the month of Could 2022.

The sport offered nearly 420 000 models throughout Could and was bearly outsold by the Wii Sports activities, which launched in 2006 and through its first 5 weeks, Wii Sports activities offered 553 000 models. It’s also value noting that Nintendo Change Sports activities was Could’s best-selling recreation in Europe. Nintendo Change 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 most recent installment of the Kirby franchise offered 117 000 copies throughout Could, bringing the gross sales to a complete of 736 287 copies, offered in Japan alone ever because the recreation launched on March 25, 2022.

Nintendo Change 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 offered 119 900 models in Could 2022 which implies that it might 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 succeed in the Prime Ten on the Japanese Could 2022 charts was Koei Tecmo’s Taiko Risshiden V DX. This title launched on Nintendo Change on Could 19 and got here in at No.10 by managing to promote greater than 25 000 models.

In complete, over 1.6 million video video games have been offered in Japan in Could and Nintendo Change titles accounted for 86.6% of the gross sales.

Nintendo Switch additionally offered 368 000 consoles in Could alone which brings the overall gross sales figures to 24.8 million models.

Beneath are the highest ten best-selling video video games in Japan in Could 2022: