Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: October 3 – October 9, 2022

Hardware sales for the week between October 3 and October 9 saw nearly all consoles down across the board with the Xbox Series recording the biggest drop among the rest, falling 93.90% from 13,064 units it sold in total the week before to only 797 units. Switch consoles noted a small rise in sales for its vanilla edition but the other two witnessed a decrease in sales by 24.48% and 21.51% for Lite and OLED editions respectively. As such, it recorded a total of 62,100 units sold for the week, 11.77% less than the previous week’s 70,785 units sold. PlayStation consoles on the other hand, retreated by 69.32% to 5,546 units from the 18,076 units it sold the prior week. PlayStation 4 reported 14.29% lower units sold to 12 whereas New 2DS LL climbed by as much as 214.81% to 85 units.

Sales of Hardware

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As for software sales, two new releases have breached the Top 10 list with NieR: Automata – The End of YoRHa Edition taking the 2^nd spot at 30,218 copies sold in its first 4 days. The release is a Switch ported version of the original game released back in February 2017 and will include the DLCs released in the original game, plus a brand new exclusive DLC title “6C2P4A118680823” which consists of cosmetics. You can get more information about the game by watching its launch trailer down below.

Skip over to Number 9 and you will find Hakuoki Shinkai: Tenun no Shou at 5,101 copies sold in its first 4 days. The game focuses on the stories of the characters Hijikata, Okita, Sannan, Yamazaki, Iba and Kazama, taking place in Kyoto where the Shinsengumi used to be active. You can check out the Play Movie video released on September 20 for more information about the game.

Video Game Software Top 10

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Video Game Software Top 11 – 30

Rank	Status	Title	Weekly Sales	Lifetime Sales
11		Nintendo Switch Sports Switch	4,777	750,190
12		Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Switch	3,638	4,988,847
13		Hoshi no Kirby Discovery Switch	3,557	901,022
14		Valkyrie Elysium PS4	3,016	26,311
15		Mario Party Superstars Switch	2,909	1,048,974
16		The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki II – Crimson Sin PS4	2,866	39,127
17		Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch	2,554	7,338,066
18		Ring Fit Adventure Switch	2,277	3,284,560
19		Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury Switch	2,167	1,080,370
20		Horizon Forbidden West PS5	2,044	88,383
21		Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! Switch	1,958	2,726,444
22		Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak Set Switch	1,952	275,773
23		The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Switch	1,880	2,085,453
24		Earth Defense Force 6 PS4	1,780	102,841
25		Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics Switch	1,747	1,025,742
26		FIFA 23 PS5	1,575	8,953
27		One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 Switch	1,572	162,461
28		JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R Switch	1,568	25,784
29		Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris Switch	1,533	7,403
30		Live A Live Switch	1,525	124,986

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Previous Chart: Sep. 26 – Oct. 2
Follow-up Chart: Oct. 10 – Oct. 16
Source: Famitsu

Google Chart:
Hardware Sales

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