Fami Tong announced the sales of games in Japan in the new week (2022.3.21~3.27), and Nintendo last week launched the series of 30-year works "Star Kirby Exploration and Discovery", which is also the first 3D work in the series, with the first week of Japanese physical sales of 380,000 to set a record series sales record.
In second place is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Edition, which recently launched the first DLC of the "New Track Pass".
Also released last week was Tango Gameworks' PS5 action game Ghost Line: Tokyo, which ranked sixth with 10,000 copies sold.
"Little Tina's Fantasy Land" was also released last week, and the PS4 and PS5 versions sold 5427 copies and 2835 copies respectively, ranking 14th and 26th on the sales charts.
Kadokawa's SRPG Heirs was also released last week, with the PS4 and PS5 editions selling 4608 copies and 2684 copies respectively, ranking 17th and 27th on the sales charts.
It is worth mentioning that although Nintendo announced on the evening of March 30 that the sequel to "The Legend of Zelda", the sequel to "Breath of the Wild" was postponed to 2023, but it unexpectedly caused the sales of this game to rise a wave, and last week with 57.31 million sales returned to the tenth place, and the cumulative physical sales of this game in Japan exceeded 2 million in a few months.
2022.3.21~3.27 Japan Game Sales:
In terms of hardware sales, the OLED Switch sold 49,000 units in the new week, and the Switch and Switch lite also sold 22,000 and 13,000 units; followed by the PS5 family with 35,000 units last week; the Xbox Series X|S sold 390 units.
2022.3.21~3.27 Hardware sales in Japan:
OLED Switch - 49,037 units (1,440,352 cumulative)
Switch - 21,784 units (18,138,373 cumulative)
Switch Lite - 12,979 units (4,648,386 cumulative)
PS5 - 32,364 units (1,270,1750 units in total)
PS5 Without Optical Drive - 3,110 units (225,767 units in total)
Xbox Series X - 246 units (89,231 cumulative)
Xbox Series S - 144 units (75,059 cumulative)