Nintendo Swap Sports activities, which launched on April 29, 2022, took the highest spot on the Japanese charts for the month of Might 2022.
The sport offered nearly 420 000 items throughout Might 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 items. It is usually price noting that Nintendo Swap Sports activities was Might’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 most recent installment of the Kirby franchise offered 117 000 copies throughout Might, bringing the gross sales to a complete of 736 287 copies, offered in Japan alone ever for the reason that 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 offered 119 900 items in Might 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 High Ten on the Japanese Might 2022 charts was Koei Tecmo’s Taiko Risshiden V DX. This title launched on Nintendo Swap on Might 19 and got here in at No.10 by managing to promote greater than 25 000 items.
In complete, over 1.6 million video video games have been offered in Japan in Might and Nintendo Swap titles accounted for 86.6% of the gross sales.
Nintendo Swap additionally offered 368 000 consoles in Might alone which brings the whole gross sales figures to 24.8 million items.
Under are the highest ten best-selling video video games in Japan in Might 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 Occasion Superstars (Swap)
10. Taiko Risshiden V DX (Swap)
