Famitsu: $2.7 billion was spent on physical gaming products in Japan in 2023
Square Enix & Konami diluted the Nintendo exclusive position in charts.
Total sales reached $2.7 billion (¥403.8 billion), which is 7.8% higher than in 2022 ($2.5 billion - ¥384.6 billion).
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom became the best-selling game of the year with 1.9 million physical copies sold. In second place is Super Mario Bros. Wonder (1.5 million physical copies).
All games in the top 10 for sales were released on Nintendo Switch. 7 of them were published by Nintendo. If you consider The Pokémon Company, then 8 out of the 10 best-selling games in Japan on physical media are from Nintendo.
Nintendo Switch became the best-selling console in Japan in 2023; more than 2.8 million Nintendo Switch OLED units were sold alone.
In second place is the PlayStation 5 (2.587 million units sold); in third place is the Xbox Series S|X (141 thousand units).
Sales of PS5 in the region more than doubled, yet there are no PS5 games in the chart. Possibly, the increase in sales in the country is related to increased demand from China. Simon Carless wrote about this in his article last year.