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The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console in its dwelling market of Japan final month – the primary time Sony’s present console has outsold the beforehand dominating Nintendo Switch in that market.
Famitsu, translated by Google and noticed by VGC, launched gross sales knowledge for Japanese video games retail from January 30 to February 26, which confirmed the PS5 offered 367,000 models all through the four-week interval.
By comparability, the Switch – which has been the top-selling gadget in Japan each month for the previous few years – offered 221,000 models in February, encompassing the usual, Lite and OLED fashions.
Nintendo, nonetheless, offered probably the most video games in the course of the course of the month at 510,000 boxed models, outranking Square Enix’s 162,000 and Warner Bros Games’ 127,000.
Nearly 40% if Nintendo’s boxed sport gross sales got here from Kirby: Return To Dream Land DX, which launched in February. That sport was the most important promoting title of the month at 189,031 models.
The PlayStation 5 model of Hogwarts Legacy got here in second at 126,086 models, following by Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, which offered a mixed 107,506 models.
Octopath Traveler 2 was the third largest new launch of the month and fifth largest vendor at 53,995 models.