The week that goes from 18 to 24 April sees eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 of Konami soar above the competition in Japan: the game has placed 97,000 copies on the Switch and 54,000 on the PlayStation 4 for a total of over 147,000 copies sold in the week of launch.
Kirby And The Lost Land has to settle for third place with 29,000 copies followed by the immortal Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Yomawari 3, which debuts with 11,000 units sold.
Japanese Software Ranking April 18-24, 2022
- [NSW] eBASEBALL Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 (Konami, 04/21/22) – 92,724
- [PS4] eBASEBALL Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 (Konami, 04/21/22) – 54,539
- [NSW] Kirby And The Lost Land (Nintendo, 03/25/22) – 29,281 (618,481)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 11,872 (4,579,625)
- [NSW] Yomawari 3 (Nippon Ichi Software, 04/21/22) – 11,129
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 7,841 (2,612,444)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 6,372 (4,853,533)
- [PS4] Hyperdimension Neptunia Sisters vs. Sisters (Compile Heart, 04/21/22) – 6,268
- [NSW] 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim (ATLUS, 04/14/22) – 6,017 (33,216)
- [NSW] Pocky & Rocky Reshrined (Natsume Atari, 04/21/22) – 5,747
- [NSW] Leggende Pokemon Arceus (The Pokemon Company, 01/28/22) – 5,402 (2,228,522)
- [PS4] Yomawari 3 (Nippon Ichi Software, 04/21/22) – 5,154
- [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 5,038 (3,127,579)
- [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 4,970 (943,087)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 4,168 (2,007,541)
- [NSW] Animal Crossing New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 3,824 (7,237,844)
- [PS5] Hyperdimension Neptunia Sisters vs. Sisters (Compile Heart, 04/21/22) – 3,807
- [PS4] Elden Ring (FromSoftware, 02/25/22) – 3,590 (331,802)
- [NSW] New Pokemon Snap (The Pokemon Company, 04/30/21) – 3,201 (340,334)
- [NSW] World War Z (H2 Interactive, 04/21/22) – 2,979
- [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 2,812 (2,643,440)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 2,622 (4,066,047)
- [NSW] Clubhouse Games 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 06/05/20) – 2,437 (965,452)
- [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise Best Price (Capcom, 12/16/21) – 2,433 (49,205)
- [NSW] Win Post 9 2022 (Koei Tecmo, 04/14/22) – 2,270 (14,974)
- [PS4] Pocky & Rocky Reshrined (Natsume Atari, 04/21/22) – 2,014
- [PS4] Win Post 9 2022 (Koei Tecmo, 04/14/22) – 1,730 (11,151)
- [NSW] Battle Spirits Connected Battlers (FuRyu, 04/14/22) – 1,524 (12,288)
- [NSW] Pokemon Sword and Shield (The Pokemon Company, 11/15/19) – 1,441 (4,334,864)
- [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo, 02/12/21) – 1,437 (1,042,077)
Japan Hardware Ranking 18-24 April 2022
- Switch OLED – 32,916 (1,619,662)
- Switch – 16,389 (18,215,283)
- PlayStation 5 – 15,789 (1,336,473)
- Switch Lite – 8,185 (4,688,271)
- Xbox Series S – 5,459 (88,678)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 1,892 (231,874)
- Xbox Series X – 566 (95,856)
- New 2DS LL e 2DS – 205 (1,185,272)
- PlayStation 4 – 12 (7,819,445)
Without too many surprises, on the hardware front it is Nintendo Switch to be the master with 65,000 consoles sales, followed by PS5 and PS5 Digital with 17,000 pieces and Xbox Series X / S with 6,000 units, rear, PlayStation 4 with only 12 consoles sold.