Famitsu takes into account only physical sales of games and consoles.
- Growth of Japanese gaming retail in 2022 was 4% – from $2.8B in 2021 to $2.9B in 2022.
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet became the best-selling game of the year. From November 18 to December 25 it was bought more than 4M times. And it’s only boxed versions.
- Splatoon 3 is second with 3.7M boxed sales and release in September.
- Nintendo Switch reached 4.8M sales in Japan in 2022. The overall sales in the region reached 27.7M.
- 9 out of 10 top-selling games were released for the Nintendo Switch. The only exception is the Elden Ring PS4 version.
- PlayStation 5 sold 1.2M consoles in Japan in 2022 with an overall amount of sold consoles of 2.4M.
- Users bought Xbox Series S|X 269.7k times in 2022. The overall system sales reached 398.3k.
