Japan Top Weekly Video Game Sales Ranking: July 25 – July 31, 2022

The overall sales of hardware for the week between July 25 and July 31 has seen a remarkable rise of 41.94% week-on-week from 85,716 units to 121,663 units with Switch consoles leading by a wide margin, accounting for 60.2% of the unit sales for the week. Units sold for all versions of the console combined sees it sitting atop of the list at 73,238 units, up by 5.57%. The PlayStation 5 consoles have also recorded a climb by as much as 251% mainly driven by the vanilla edition of the console which reported a 269.61% increase in sales to 36,237 units from last week’s 9,804 units. Likewise, the Xbox Series rallied along with the other two consoles to close at 79.33% higher from 5,012 units sold the week before to 8,988 units. The PlayStation 4 vanilla marks a 27.57% jump to 14 units whereas New 2DS LL is down by 30.40% to 87 units. Note that the Japanese Obon festival is set to arrive soon on the 13^th of August, and you may see strong sales posted by both hardware and software leading up to the festival.

Sales of Hardware

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Well, it is certainly a lively week this time around with three new titles making it onto the Top 10 list. The much-anticipated Xenoblade Chronicles 3 sold 112,728 copies in just 3 days, a 14.04% improvement over Xenoblade Chronicles 2 sales performance back in 2017 where it sold 96,897 copies in its first 3 days. The role-playing game by Monolith Soft is a Switch exclusive and is said to serve a story that connects the future of the worlds of Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2. You play as Noah and Mio, the two protagonists who lead six soldiers from the two hostile nations in the game, Keves and Agnus (Source: Wikia). More information and gameplay are available via its official trailer of which you can watch below, so do check it out!

Next on the list at Number 2, is another long-awaited title, Digimon Survive makes its debut at 28,536 copies sold in its first 4 days. The game is actually a mix of visual novel and a strategy survival role-playing that features a group of people, mainly students trapped in a world that seemed identical to theirs but is not. The game is also available on other platforms such as the Playstation 4, Xbox One and Steam. You can find out more about the game via its promotional video down below.

The final new release on the Top 10 is Tengoku Struggle -strayside- an otome title which comes in 9^th on the list at 10,912 copies sold in its first 4 days. You can obtain more information about the title by visiting its official website right here. Without further ado, the full list is as follows:

Video Game Software Top 10

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Video Game Software Top 11 – 30

Rank	Status	Title	Weekly Sales	Lifetime Sales
11	NEW	Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 Switch	9,493	9,493
12	NEW	Digimon Survive PS4	7,757	7,757
13	NEW	Koumajou Remilia: Scarlet Symphony Switch	7,604	7,604
14		Ring Fit Adventure Switch	6,867	3,228,007
15		Nobunaga no Yabou Shinsei Switch	6,607	28,360
16	NEW	Anonymous;Code Switch	6,450	6,450
17		Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch	5,871	7,297,474
18		Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Switch	5,714	4,936,314
19		Nobunaga no Yabou Shinsei PS4	4,975	28,400
20		Mario Party Superstars Switch	4,647	1,004,727
21		Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! Switch	4,055	2,685,422
22	NEW	Anonymous;Code PS4	3,696	3,696
23		eBASEBALL Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 Switch	3,599	208,134
24	NEW	GrimGrimoire OnceMore Switch	3,524	3,524
25		The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Switch	3,007	2,058,313
26	NEW	Psikyo Shooting Library Vol. 2 PS4	2,970	2,970
27		Kimetsu no Yaiba: The Hinokami Chronicles Switch	2,805	147,034
28		Pokémon Legends: Arceus Switch	2,657	2,276,532
29		Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics Switch	2,640	1,001,223
30	NEW	The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki PS5	2,407	2,407

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Source: Famitsu

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Hardware Sales

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