Japan Top Weekly Video Game Sales Ranking: November 14 – November 20, 2022

Hardware sales have shown a drastic improvement week-on-week with only Xbox Series S seeing a drop in sales as it sold 68.38% fewer units to 154 whereas the Series X climbed by 426.05% to settle at 1,373 units as of the end of the week, bringing total units sold to 1,527. The most noticeable improvement in hardware sales here would certainly be the PlayStation 4 which experienced a significant swing in units sold by 4105.07% to 5,803 from previous week’s 138 units. Others on the list have also recorded positive growth with Switch consoles gaining as much as 74.99% to 170,693 units, PlayStation 5 by 10.94% to 31,858 units while New 2DS LL was up by 6.25% to 34 units.

Sales of Hardware

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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet tops the software sales chart very, very comfortably to see a massive 2,537,292 copies sold in its first 3 days. To compare with other Pokémon titles, its latest turnout marks an 85.94%, 81.80% and 78.10% increase against the 3-day sales of Pokémon Sword and Shield (November 15, 2019), Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (November 19, 2021) and Pokémon Legends: Arceus (January 28, 2022), respectively (refer to chart). According to a statement released by Nintendo, the latest title has sold 4.05 million copies in Japan alone (note that Famitsu tracks physical sales only, so this would include digital sales as well) and has crossed over than 10 million copies in sales worldwide making this the best performance so far in the first 3 days of release of any Nintendo games in history. For more information about the game, be sure to check out its launch trailer below or check its official website right here.

Other new titles on the list include Monochrome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten at Number 4 at 9,066 copies sold, Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days at Number 8 at 6,649 copies and SympathyKiss at Number 9 at 6,072 copies, all in their first days. 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	Monochrome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten PS5	4,950	4,950
12		Nintendo Switch Sports Switch	4,341	774,171
13		Tsuri Spirits: Tsutte Asoberu Suizokukan Switch	4,282	39,056
14		Dragon Quest X Offline Switch	3,978	228,400
15		Horizon Forbidden West PS5	3,744	102,226
16		Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Switch	3,675	5,010,829
17		Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Switch	3,507	2,596,356
18		Harvestella Switch	3,236	36,597
19	NEW	Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 [Special Price] Switch	3,091	3,091
20		Mario Party Superstars Switch	2,949	1,064,208
21		Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II PS4	2,935	39,264
22		Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival Switch	2,865	68,351
23		Hoshi no Kirby Discovery Switch	2,830	919,015
24		Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! Switch	2,813	2,739,356
25		Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch	2,804	7,352,449
26		Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher Switch	2,788	34,039
27	NEW	Return to Shironagasu Island Switch	2,661	2,661
28		Gran Turismo 7 PS5	2,648	189,483
29		Tactics Ogre: Reborn PS4	2,507	15,175
30		God of War Ragnarök PS4	2,454	13,714

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Previous Chart: Nov. 7 – Nov. 13
Follow-up Chart: Nov. 21 – Nov. 27
Source: Famitsu

Google Chart:
Hardware Sales

Visualisations:
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