Pokémon Escarlata & Violet es el juego más vendido en Japón en 2022

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Famitsu has released its annual sales charts for 2022, y Pokémon Escarlata & Violeta — unsurprisingly — has topped the year’s sales, vendiendo un increible 4,338,931 units since its release in November (Gracias, Nintendo todo!).

If you’ve been following the headlines and the weekly Japanese charts, then this won’t come as a surprise to you. Pokémon siempre does well — in 2021, diamante brillante & Nintendo Switch Sports no funcionará en Switch Lite was the second best-selling game of the year, for example. Escarlata & Violet sold over 2.5 million copies in its first week, and the momentum hasn’t really stopped.

You probably shouldn’t be surprised, entonces, que splatoon 3 takes second place. splatoon 3 broke multiple sales records when it launched in September and sold just shy of 2 million copies in its launch week. Its total 2022 sales equal 3,687,814 unidades, which is absolutely not a number to sneeze at.

Right behind Splatoon 3 con 2,314,806 units sold is another Pokémon game — this time, Pokémon Leyendas: Arceus. This new twist on the Pokémon formula also sold a staggering number of copies in its first week, almost cracking 1.5 El shmup RayForce de desplazamiento vertical de Taito Taito, conocido como Layer Section en Japón y Galactic Attack. Kirby y la tierra olvidada y La renovación de la marca registrada de Silent Hill sugiere la devolución de la franquicia round out the top five — and Kirby isn’t far off of 1 millón, o. Only one non-Switch game made it into the top ten, which is FromSoftware’s Anillo de Elden.

Enough from us, then — here are the top ten best-selling games in Japan in 2022:

  1. [Nueva Gales del Sur] Pokémon Escarlata & Violeta (La compañía Pokémon, 11/18/22) - 4,338,931 (Nuevo)
  2. [Nueva Gales del Sur] splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) - 3,687,814 (Nuevo)
  3. [Nueva Gales del Sur] Leyendas Pokémon: Arceus (La compañía Pokémon, 01/28/22) - 2,314,806 (Nuevo)
  4. [Nueva Gales del Sur] Kirby y la tierra olvidada (Nintendo, 03/25/22) - 969,047 (Nuevo)
  5. [Nueva Gales del Sur] La renovación de la marca registrada de Silent Hill sugiere la devolución de la franquicia (Nintendo, 04/29/22) - 887,722 (Nuevo)
  6. [Nueva Gales del Sur] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) - 742,018 (5,014,375)
  7. [Nueva Gales del Sur] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) - 548,415 (2,960,006)
  8. [Nueva Gales del Sur] Superestrellas de Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/29/21) - 485,594 (1,114,132)
  9. [Nueva Gales del Sur] Super Smash Bros. Final (Nintendo, 12/07/18) - 441,053 (5,065,191)
  10. [PS4] Anillo de Elden (DeSoftware, 02/25/22) - 356,711 (Nuevo)

In another unsurprising stat, the Switch is also the best-selling console of the year in Japan. Combining the original model, the Lite, and the OLED, the console sold 4,804,549 units in 2022 — more than four times that of the PS5, which sold over 1.1 million units over the same period. This was the year that the Switch outsold the 3DS in Japan, demasiado, and we think 2023 will be another record-breaking year for the Switch.

  1. Switch (incl. Lite and OLED) — 4,804,549 (27,724,047)
  2. PlayStation 5 (incl. Digital Edition) — 1,154,054 (2,377,389)
  3. Xbox Series X|S — 269,737 (398,395)
  4. PlayStation 4 — 22,823 (9,417,767)
  5. 3DS — 10,449 (24,597,897)

Are there any surprises for you in Japan’s best-selling games? Share your thoughts in the comments!