Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: July 18, 2022 to July 24, 2022

Overall, the hardware sales for the week have noted a small recovery thanks to the climb experienced by Switch vanilla and Lite consoles, pushing up sales of Switch machines to 69,737 units, up by 12.48% from prior week’s 61,677 units. PlayStation 5 have retreated by 11.52% and 5.12% for both editions to accumulate 11,194 units sold for the week, down 10.77% from last week’s whereas the Xbox Series X reported 2.6 times higher sales than the week before to 2,884 units from 787 units, putting the total units sold combined for both of its versions to 3,577 units. On the other hand, PlayStation 4 vanilla and New 2DS LL both recorded fewer units sold by 15.38% and 3.85% respectively.

Sales of Hardware

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The week between July 18 and July 24 witnessed the entries of two new releases on the Top 10 list. The HD-2D remake of the classic 1994 role-playing game, Live A Live has a great start of 71,137 copies in its first 3 days. Originally developed by Square (as it was known at the time), the game was re-released in 2015 for the Wii U’s Virtual Console in Japan and a full HD-2D remake was then announced in February this year. The game features seven chapters, each with a different setting and characters. After the seventh chapter play-through is completed, you will then be thrust into the final act of the game that will then link all the seven chapters, which would finally end the story (Source: Wikia). If you are curious to see as to what was done to the game, do check out its trailer down below!

Then, we have Nobunaga no Yabou Shinsei taking two spots with the PlayStation 4 edition overtaking the Switch edition at Number 3 with 23,425 copies sold whereas the latter can be found at Number 5 with 21,753 copies. Together, that would be 45,178 copies sold in total in its first 4 days. The game is a turn-based strategy that was first released in 1983 and takes place during the Japanese Warring States period. More about the game can be learned from its latest promotional video of which can be watched below.

Video Game Software Top 10

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Video Game Software Top 11 – 30

Rank	Status	Title	Weekly Sales	Lifetime Sales
11		Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch	5,807	7,291,603
12		Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes Switch	4,403	132,220
13		Mario Party Superstars Switch	4,281	1,000,080
14		Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! Switch	4,103	2,681,367
15		Kimetsu no Yaiba: The Hinokami Chronicles Switch	3,682	144,229
16		eBASEBALL Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 Switch	3,558	204,535
17	NEW	River City Saga: Three Kingdoms Switch	3,146	3,146
18		The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Switch	2,933	2,055,306
19		Mario Strikers: Battle League Switch	2,920	69,777
20		Pokémon Legends: Arceus Switch	2,530	2,273,875
21		Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics Switch	2,518	998,583
22		Splatoon 2 Switch	2,041	4,101,377
23		Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Switch	1,961	2,570,356
24		Pokémon Sword and Shield Switch	1,907	4,356,525
25		Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury Switch	1,623	1,062,107
26		Kirby Star Allies Switch	1,557	993,927
27		Human: Fall Flat Switch	1,466	272,731
28	NEW	River City Saga: Three Kingdoms PS4	1,449	1,449
29		Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! Switch	1,437	728,366
30		Monster Hunter Rise Best Price Switch	1,431	81,876

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Source: Famitsu

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Hardware Sales

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