Japan charts: Nintendo Switch Sports, it's still a success

Here are the best sellers of games and consoles in Japan for the two weeks from April 25 to May 8, 2022, established and communicated as always by the magazine Famitsu.

GOLDEN Week obliges, Famitsu had closed a boutique last week but returns to us in great shape and with flat figures in passing, because these exceptionally combine two weeks instead of 1. The observation remains the same: Nintendo adds a hit in its collection with its Switch Sports, which already has more than 300,000 copies sold after ten days.

The mini-game collection is ahead of the always very solid Kirby and the forgotten world. As recently announced in Nintendo's results, the latter had 2.65 million copies distributed worldwide on March 31, signing the best launch of the franchise.

For the rest, we are playing in known ground and the next few weeks promise to be rather calm while waiting for the outings of Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles on Switch, Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Splatoon 3 which promises to be like The main highlights of summer.

As for consoles sales, the main teaching is that the Switch has now exceeded the total sales of Nintendo 3DS, which allows it to comfortably settle on the most sold consoles in history in Japan. A position that she will have a good time, because the Game Boy (32.5 million) and the Nintendo DS (33 million) will not be so easily caught.

Software ranking

Game name	Console	Sales over two weeks	Total sales
Nintendo Switch Sports	Switch	304 588	304 588
Kirby and the forgotten world	Switch	77 330	695 811
Ebaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2022	Switch	61 209	153 933
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe	Switch	41 802	4,621,427

Ebaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 | PS4 | 26 444 | 80 983 Minecraft | Switch | 22 952 | 2,635 396 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | Switch | 20,417 | 4,873,950 Ring Fit Adventure | Switch | 17 309 | 3 144 888 Mario Party Superstars | Switch | 16 686 | 959 773 Pokémon legends: Arceus | Switch | 15 235 | 2,243,757

Hardware classification

Consoles	Sales over two weeks	Sales of the year	Total sales
Nintendo Switch	176 592	1 780 307	24,699,808
PlayStation 5	49 798	394 810	1,618,145
Xbox Series	14 118	69 994	198 652
Nintendo 3DS	452	6,428	24 593 876
PlayStation 4	81	305	9,395,249