Famitsu: Physical sales of console games in Japan in July 2024
The Japanese market is living by its terms, which is beautiful.
Famitsu only tracks physical copy sales.
Game Sales
Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 by Konami was the top-selling game in Japan in July. The game sold 260,000 physical copies within the first two weeks after launch. The previous game in the series (eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2022) sold 202,000 copies in the same period.
In second place was Luigi's Mansion 2 HD (71,000 copies); in fourth place was Mario Kart 8 (37,000 copies); in fifth place was Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (36,000 copies).
Nintendo accounted for 33.5% of all physical game sales in the country in July. In money terms, this amounts to ¥2.4 billion ($16.3 million). Konami was in second place with 29% of the physical market (¥2 billion - $13.6 million).
Nintendo Switch accounted for 84% of all physical game sales.
Hardware Sales
The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console on the Japanese market, with 229,300 units sold in July.
The PlayStation 5 sold 125,000 units in July; the Xbox Series S|X sold 13,700 units.