Regardless of Elden Ring promoting extraordinarily properly, Pokemon Legends: Arceus managed to stay the best-selling title in Japan for 2 months in a row.
In accordance with Famitsu’s month-to-month bodily gross sales charts, Pokemon Legends: Arceus managed to promote greater than 645 000 copies which is greater than double that when in comparison with Elden Ring which bought round 279 000 models.
Which means Pokemon Legends: Arceus managed to promote greater than 2 million copies with 1.5 million being bought throughout January when the sport was launched.
Pokemon Legends: Arceus accounted for greater than a 3rd of all Swap video games bought this month and, due to the discharge of Sensible Diamond and Shining Pearl in November, this marks the fourth month in a row with a Pokemon title at No.1.
Since Nintendo doesn’t share the information on their digital gross sales, we are able to’t say for certain whether or not Elden Ring managed to promote higher total.
Elden Ring majority gross sales had been accounted for by the PS4 model of the sport, managing to promote 188 000 copies whereas the PS5 model managed to promote round 90 000 models. The Xbox model of the sport didn’t even chart within the high 30, which is to be anticipated contemplating the low set up base of Microsoft’s consoles in Japan.
Out of all gross sales, Nintendo Swap video games accounted for greater than 72% whereas PS4 and PS5 models accounted for 19.1% and eight.6% respectively.
Month-to-month bodily software program gross sales suffered a 41% decline regardless of the foremost releases equivalent to Elden Ring, Horizon: Forbidden West, Dying Mild 2: Keep Human and Atelier Sophie 2 charting among the many high 20.
Nintendo Swap stays the best-selling {hardware} managing to promote 81% of all models. The OLED mannequin accounted for 43.1% of the gross sales whereas the usual version and Swap Lite accounted for twenty-four.4% and 13.5% respectively.
PlayStation 5 accounted for 14% of console gross sales with the disc drive model being the best-seller accounting for 12.8% of the market whole. The digital version of PS5 accounted for just one.3% of all console gross sales in Japan final month.
Surprisingly, the Xbox Sequence S digital version managed to outsell the Xbox Sequence X with the previous accounting for two.8% of the whole market and the latter accounting for 1.7%.
Total {hardware} gross sales declined by 36.5% when in comparison with January 2022.
Under are the highest ten best-selling video video games in Japan in February 2022:
1. Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Swap)
2. Elden Ring (PS4)
3. Touken Ranbu Warriors (Swap)
4. Elden Ring (PS5)
5. Horizon: Forbidden West (PS4)
6. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Swap)
7. Mario Social gathering Superstars (Swap)
8. Horizon: Forbidden West (PS5)
9. Tremendous Smash Bros Final (Swap)
10. Dying Mild 2: Keep Human (PS4)
