Kirby racks up second month at No.1 | Japan Monthly Charts
James Batchelor
Editor-in-Chief
Thursday 12th May 2022
At a glance:
Kirby and the Forgotten Land was the biggest selling boxed game in Japan for the second month in a row.
The latest physical sales charts from Famitsu show the platformer sold just shy of 240,000 copies last month, bringing its total to almost 620,000.
It easily outperformed the next biggest title, the newly-released eBaseball Powerful Pro Yakyu 2022, the Switch version of which sold 92,000 copies. Even combined with the 54,000 PS4 boxes sold, Kirby is comfortably ahead of Konami's latest sports game.
The only other new entry in the Top 10 was Atlus' 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim on Switch, with 33,000 units sold.
It's worth noting Famitsu's April charts encompass sales from March 28 to April 24, and therefore do not include Nintendo Switch Sports, which released on April 29.
Elden Ring dropped from No.3 last month to No.9, with another 24,000 copies sold. Its lifetime sales at Japanese retail reached 331,000,
The usual Nintendo best-sellers dominate the rest of the chart, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in third place thanks to another 61,000 copies sold.
Interestingly, while Mario Kart 8 stands as the biggest selling game on Switch worldwide, at Japanese retail it's been just pipped by Smash Bros. The five-year-old racer has sold 4.5 million boxed copies vs the 2018 brawler's 4.8 million.
Meanwhile, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild finally sold its two millionth physical copy in Japan this month.
Nintendo maintained its position as the biggest selling publisher with 40.6% of all boxes sold, while Konami rose from No.7 to No.2 thanks to eBaseball. The Metal Gear publisher accounted for 14.6% of all games sold.
995,500 Switch games were sold throughout the month. This is
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