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This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:

1. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Violet – 310,235 / 3,424,806
2. [NSW] Splatoon 3 – 38,922 / 3,446,399
3. [NSW] Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope – 17,647 / NEW
4. [NSW] Minecraft – 11,005 / 2,877,634
5. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 10,519 / 4,928,165
6. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 9,211 / 793,064
7. [NSW] Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel: Dawn of the Battle Royale!! Let’s Go! Go Rush!! – 7,396 / NEW
8. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 5,787 / 5,021,094
9. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 4,579 / 1,072,681
10. [PS5] Horizon Forbidden West – 4,444 / 116,777

The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows:

Thanks to GamesIndustry, we have new insight into the UK gaming market for November 2022.

Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet performed huge as expected. Both games (plus the double pack) would have ended up at #3 on the latest sales chart had they been combined. This also isn’t counting digital data. Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet had the second biggest launch for a Pokemon game in UK history – only Sun and Moon did better.

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Original (12/4): The latest UK sales chart is in for the week ending December 3, 2022.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was the best-selling Switch game even with a 20 percent dip. In the week prior, it saw a 226 percent bump thanks to a Switch hardware bundle that was promoted during Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

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Top 10 best-selling Wii U games in the US

Wii U recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, and in honor of the occasion, NPD data was shared that reveals the system’s top ten best-selling games of all time in the United States.

It’s a clean sweep for Nintendo with the company taking up all of the slots. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U ended up at #1. Splatoon, a new IP during the generation, managed to enter the top five. Something also worth noting is that Zelda: Breath of the Wild made the list even though it was one of the last games for the system and all attention was focused on Switch.

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Digimon Survive sales

Digimon Survive has sold over 500,000 copies worldwide, Bandai Namco just announced. That figure accounts for sales across all platforms. It’s also presumably based on physical shipments and digital downloads.

Following multiple delays, Digimon Survive finally launched at the end of July. It was first announced in 2018 and was planned to debut the following year.

This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:

1. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Violet – 577,279 / 3,114,571
2. [NSW] Splatoon 3 – 39,322 / 3,407,477
3. [NSW] Minecraft – 11,223 / 2,866,629
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 11,057 / 4,917,646
5. [PS5] Horizon Forbidden West – 10,107 / 112,333
6. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 9,682 / 783,853
7. [NSW] Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits – 5,414 / 44,470
8. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 4,478 / 5,015,307
9. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 4,108 / 2,743,464
10. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 3,994 / 923,009

Switch Black Friday 2022 UK

Switch is several years old at this point, but it still managed to be the best-selling gaming console during Black Friday 2022 in the UK. That’s based on data from GfK Entertainment.

Switch accounted for 42 percent of all console’s sold during the week. The system received a boost thanks to its Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle, which also includes a three month subscription to Nintendo Switch Online.

The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows:

Persona 5 Royal sales million

The recent re-release of Persona 5 Royal – which Atlus calls the remastered version – has sold over one million copies worldwide, it’s just been announced. That figure is based on all platforms with the sales of both the physical and digital versions.

Combined with Persona 5 Royal’s arrival on new platforms alongside the original PS4 version, the RPG has sold a total of 3.3 million copies worldwide.


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