Famitsu: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sold 1.5M retail copies in May in Japan
Legendary sales.
Famitsu is tracking only physical copies sales.
Games
Gamers bought 1.1M copies of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in the first three days of sales. It’s almost 4 times more than Breath of the Wild had.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (47k copies) is second in sales. Hogwarts Legacy (43k copies) is third.
Nintendo holds 8 places in the top 10 chart of best-selling games in Japan. That’s what the domination looks like.
Consoles
Nintendo Switch OLED was responsible for 52.8% of all hardware sales in Japan in May. About 274k consoles have been sold. If we count all Switch sales, the number will increase to 345k in May.
PlayStation 5 is second by sales with 145k sold copies (28% of the overall amount in May).