Famitsu: Pokemon Scarlet and Violet became the main game of November in Japan
Nintendo conquered the Japanese market.
Famitsu is tracking only retail sales.
Games
4.2M of games’ physical copies were sold this November in Japan. Pokemon Scarlet & Violet is responsible for 73% of all sales.
In Japan, retail versions of Pokemon Scarlet & Violet were bought 3.1M times last month. Pokemon: Arceus, when it was launched, generated 2.1M physical sales in the first month.
Splatoon 3 was second in November (170k copies), and Tactics Ogre: Reborn was third (48k copies).
The only game from Sony in the top 10 is the God of War: Ragnarok - #9 (43k copies).
93% of physical game copies have been sold for Nintendo Switch. 6% for the Sony consoles.
Console
PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in November have been responsible for a quarter of console sales.
Switch Lite sales increased by 2% from October. In November the light version was responsible for 13.6% of all console sales. Nintendo Switch OLED in November was a behemoth with more than 50% of the market share.