Famitsu: Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth topped the March retail chart in Japan
The top-5 in March was all about new releases.
Famitsu only takes into account sales on physical media.
Game sales
Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth boxed copies were purchased over 310 thousand times. This is the second place in the history of new releases sales for PS5 in the country in the first month, surpassed only by Final Fantasy 16 - 336 thousand copies.
Technically, in second place is Unicorn Overlord from Atlus. The game was purchased 62 thousand times on Nintendo Switch; 34.2 thousand copies were sold on PS5 and 14.5 thousand on PS4. In total - 111 thousand copies sold.
But in the chart, in second place is Princess Peach: Showtime - the game sold 105 thousand copies after two weeks. The thing is in the counting specifics, all sales of the project came from one platform - Nintendo Switch.
Rise of the Ronin showed decent sales - the game was purchased 85 thousand times; Dragon’s Dogma II - 78 thousand copies sold.
For the first time since October 2021, the entire top 5 in Japan consists of new games.
Nintendo continues to be the largest publisher in the market; the company's share accounted for 44.3% of all physical sales in March. Square Enix - 8.8%.
At the same time, in revenue terms, Square Enix ($20.1 million) surpassed Nintendo ($18.8 million) in March, ending its 8-month leadership in this indicator.
Nintendo Switch accounted for 57.6% of all physical game sales; PlayStation 5 - 35.7%.
Hardware sales
In March, almost 290k Nintendo Switch units were sold; PlayStation 5 had a little bit over 162k.