Here's a Famitsu chart from 30 years ago What's that game at #3?

Game Sales (Feb 16 - Feb 22) 1[SW2] Mario Tennis Fever - 14.577 / 54.099 2[SWI] Dragon Quest VII Reimagined - 12.413 / 222.078 3[SW2] Mario Kart World - 10.418 / 2.835.912 sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, Momotaro Dentetsu 2 and Code Vein II were the top downloads in Japan for January metabblestavern.blogspot.com/2026/02/japa...

Comparing retail launch sales of Yakuza Kiwami 3 with other Yakuza remakes in Japan. It's most likely a bigger launch than Yakuza Kiwami 2 including digital, pretty close to the launch of LAD 8 Gaiden last year. +80% of sales were on PlayStation.

Retail launch sales of Mario Tennis Fever in Japan are the lowest for a Mario Tennis game, less than 1/3 of the launch of Mario Tennis Aces. Pretty poor opening for a Mario sports game overall, among the lowest for the series.

Game Sales (Feb 9 - Feb 15) 1[PS5] Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties - 58.171 / NEW 2[SW2] Mario Tennis Fever - 39.522 / NEW 3[SWI] Dragon Quest VII Reimagined - 32.102 / 209.665 sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

Comparing retail launch sales of DQVII Reimagined with other remakes of the series Rather underwhelming launch, just a bit better than the launch of DQI&II, about half of the 3DS remake Those who got the Digital Deluxe got to play it early, that may've pushed digital sales

Game Sales (Feb 2 -Feb 8) 1[SWI] Dragon Quest VII Reimagined - 177.563 / NEW 2[SW2] Dragon Quest VII Reimagined - 160.101 / NEW 3[PS5] Dragon Quest VII Reimagined - 118.798 / NEW sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

Hardware, year on year SW2: 523k SWI: 100k (-67%) PS5: 80k (-16%) XBS: 1.802 (-74%)

Best selling retail games for the year so far, January update. Momotetsu begins the year on top, soft sales for all as its just one month. Feb will be a huge month, we have DQVIIR & Nioh 3 (5th), Mario Tennis Fever & Yakuza Kiwami 3 (12th) and Resident Evil: Requiem (27th)

Game Sales (Jan 26 - Feb 1) 1[PS5] Code Vein II - 14.452 / NEW 2[SW2] Mario Kart World - 12.445 / 2.805.146 3[SW2] Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - 9.941 / 52.918 sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

Not just recent data, we also got more old data. Thanks to our friends @installbase.bsky.social we've archived the 2018 Famitsu Top 1000, featuring hundreds of updates for PS4/SWI/3DS/PSV games, plus some more. This may be the last update for PS3/WII games. sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

ICYMT, the official Famitsu 2025 Top 100 has been archived, there are dozens of updates on SWI, PS5 and SW2 games.

Game Sales (Jan 19 - Jan 25) 1[SW2] Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade - 23.428 / NEW 2[SW2] Mario Kart World - 13.812 / 2.792.701 3[SW2] Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - 11.605 / 42.977 sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

Here are the Top 100 best selling retail games in Japan for 2025. sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

Game Sales (Jan 12 - Jan 18) 1[SW2] Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - 31.372 / NEW 2[SW2] Mario Kart World - 17.639 / 2.778.889 3[SWI] Pokémon Legends: Z-A - 9.990 / 1.587.653 sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

Pokémon Legends: Z-A, Mario Kart World and Monster Hunter Wilds were the top downloads in Japan for 2025 metabblestavern.blogspot.com/2026/01/japa...

Total sales of the Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan surpassed those of the Nintendo GameCube, that's 4.1m vs. 4.04m, +5 years outdone in 32 weeks. Next up is the PC Engine at 4.52m

Total sales of Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan have surpassed 4 MILLION units, being the fastest platform to get to the milestone. Here's a comparison with some of the other top selling platforms in Japan

Game Sales (Dec 29, 2025 - Jan 11, 2026) [2 weeks] 1[SW2] Mario Kart World - 92.869 / 2.761.250 2[SWI] Momotaro Dentetsu 2 - 61.588 / 294.142 3[SW2] Momotaro Dentetsu 2 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - 52.848 / 241.383

Hardware, year on year, final 2025 update SW2: 3.78m SWI: 1.52m (-51%) PS5: 879k (-40%) XBS: 31k (-73%)

Best selling retail games in Japan for 2025, final update. We should be getting a full top 100 in a few weeks.

Momotaro Dentetsu 2, Arc Air Riders and KIRBY Raiders were the top downloads in Japan for December metabblestavern.blogspot.com/2026/01/japa...

Total retail sales of the Switch 2 version of Pokémon Legends: Z-A in Japan have surpassed 1 MILLION units, becoming the second SW2 title to reach the milestone. With the SWI version sales are over 2.5m, likely around the 4m mark with digital.

Comparing first calendar year of the Switch 2 with other platforms we have weekly data for. Of course, as all systems have different launch dates we can't have a fair comparison, but Switch 2 had the 3rd biggest, only behind the GBA and 3DS, both of which had 3 extra months.

Game Sales (Dec 22 -Dec 28) 1[SW2] Mario Kart World - 94.645 / 2.668.381 2[SWI] Pokémon Legends: Z-A - 59.469 - 1.529.823 3[SW2] Kirby Air Riders - 47.793 / 424.837 sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

New year, new (old) data. Thanks to our friends at @installbase.bsky.social we've saved up the 2017 Famitsu Top 1000, here are updates for hundreds of games for the 7th and 8th systems, as well as the first Switch year. Updated data is also on the main page sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

The Top 30 best selling retail games in Japan last week were all Switch & Switch 2 titles www.famitsu.com/ranking/game...

This week, total sales of the Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan (3.58m) surpassed those of the SEGA MegaDrive (3.55m), that's 29 weeks vs 6+ years. Next up is the Nintendo GameCube at 4.04m, reaching it by the first week of 2026 (the final holiday week), is very likely

Game Sales (Dec 15 -Dec 21) 1[SW2] Mario Kart World - 115.729 / 2.573.736 2[SWI] Pokémon Legends: Z-A - 72.820 / 1.470.354 3[SW2] Pokémon Legends: Z-A - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - 54.096 / 957.286 sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

Konami has announced that total sales of Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 has surpassed 1 MILLION units, becoming the first game in the series to hit the milestone. It's the first sports game in Japan to sell over 1m since Konami's own Winning Eleven 2008.

Sales of Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan (3.36m) have surpassed those of the Wii U (3.3m) and WonderSwan (3.32m), that's 28 weeks vs. 5+ years and 4+ years respectively. Next up is the SEGA MegaDrive at 3.55m.

Game Sales (Dec 8 - Dec 14) 1[SW2] Mario Kart World - 103.361 / 2.458.007 2[SWI] Pokémon Legends: Z-A - 50.292 / 1.397.534 3[SW2] Pokémon Legends: Z-A - Nintendo Swich 2 Edition - 40.813 / 903.190 sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

Comparing retail launch of Metroid Prime 4 in Japan with other games in the series. A bit under the launch of Prime 3 and Hunters, but may be the series biggest launch with digital. Yep, numbers are small. Metroid isn't popular in Japan, and within that niche Prime is niche too

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, Kirby Air Riders & ARC Raiders were the top downloads in Japan for November metabblestavern.blogspot.com/2025/12/japa...

Total sales of Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan top 3 MILLION units after 27 weeks on sale. Here's a comparison with the other fastest selling plaforms in Japan. Switch 2 will likely outsell the Wii U and WonderSwan next week, 4m by the end of the year is fairly likely

Holding off comparisons until we get data for the SWI and PS4 versions of Metroid Prime 4 and Octopath Traveler 0, but both games likely reached the most expectations we had for them. Metroid Prime 4 probably had the highest launch for the Prime series with digital.

Game Sales (Dec 1 - Dec 7) 1[SW2] Mario Kart World - 102.435 / 2.354.146 2[SW2] Kirby Air Riders - 46.737 / 288.618 3[SW2] Pokémon Legends: Z-A - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - 44.331 / 862.377 sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

December 10th marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the Xbox 360 in Japan. For the ocassion, here are the top 20 best selling games on the system

Thanks to all suporters on Patreon & Ko-Fi, we've archived the 2016 Famitsu Top 1000, here are updates for hundreds of games for the 7th and 8th systems. Updated data is also on the main page sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

SW2: 2.96m SWI: 1.36m (-50%) PS5: 796k (-40%) XSX: 30k (-72%)

Best selling games for the year so far, November update 2 new games with Kirby Air Riders and Momotetsu 2 List of games should be final, we'll see how the order changes with the holidays Final noteworthy release of 2025 is Octopath 0, it's not expected to join this list

Game Sales (Nov 24 - Nov 30) 1[SW2] Mario Kart World - 49.586 / 2.251.711 2[SW2] Kirby Air Riders - 46.287 / 241.881 3[SWI] Pokémon Legends: Z-A - 35.225 / 1.306.801 sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

Kirby Air Riders just had the biggest launch for a Kirby spin off in Japan, more than twice that of the GameCube original. Similar to Pikmin, Air Ride was an odd game that sold fairly well for the NGC, interesting what a game on popular hardware can do.

Game Sales (Nov 17 - Nov 23) 1[SW2] Kirby Air Riders - 195.594 / NEW 2[SW2] Mario Kart World - 67.068 / 2.202.125 3[SWI] Pokémon Legends: Z-A - 28.480 / 1.271.576 sites.google.com/site/gamedat...

Total retail sales of Pokémon Legends: Z-A in Japan have surpassed 2 MILLION units. Digital sales likely put it over 3m, it should be the best selling game of the year.

Haven't been putting much attention to it, but Call of Duty continues its downward spiral in Japan with Black Ops 7 hitting rock bottom at the series lowest retail launch since COD 3, less than half of Black Ops 6.

Here's a poster for Kirby Air Riders included in the newest issue of Famitsu

Comparing retail launch sales of Momotaro Dentetsu 2 with other games in the series. While its a big drop from the previous game (less than half its launch) its still the 5th biggest launch for the series. These games have legs should it should do well over the holidays

Game Sales (Nov 10 - Nov 16) 1[SWI] Momotaro Dentstsu 2: Anata no Machi mo Kitto Aru - 90.706 / NEW 2[SW2] Mario Kart World - 63.230 / 2.135.057 3[SW2] Momotaro Dentetsu 2: Anata no Machi mo Kitto Aru - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - 56.807 / NEW sites.google.com/site/gamedat...