Japan: Kirby Enters No.1 This Week and PS5 No.1 Gaming System

The latest Japanese video game box office software and hardware rankings have arrived from the Famitsu sales tracking team for the week of February 20, 2023 to February 26, 2023. This week’s best-selling video game in the land of the rising sun is Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe which is debuted with extremely solid sales of 189,031 physical copies. The best-selling gaming platform was once again Sony’s PlayStation 5, selling 91,729 units, and the Nintendo Switch family was the second best-selling gaming platform, selling an additional 61,384 units. Here are this week’s best-selling software and hardware:

Software sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. [NSW] Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe (Nintendo, 02/24/23) – 189,031 (New)
2. [NSW] Octopath Traveler II (Square Enix, 24.02.23) – 53,995 (New)
3. [PS4] Like a Dragon: Were! (SEGA, 22.02.23) – 35,897 (New)
4. [PS5] Like a Dragon: Were! (SEGA, 22.02.23) – 31,439 (New)
5. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11/18/22) – 23,703 (4,883,806)
6. [PS5] Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros. Games), 02/10/23) – 21,932 (126,086)
7. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 14,858 (3,904,000)
8. [PS5] Octopath Traveler II (Square Enix, 02/24/23) – 14,422 (New)
9. [NSW] ARK: Survival Evolved (Spike Chunsoft, 02/24/23) – 13,200 (New)
10. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 4/28/17) – 10,159 (5,173,365)

Hardware sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. PlayStation 5 – 77,281 (2,577,614)
2. Switch OLED model – 40,992 (3,952,054)
3. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 14,448 (401,086)
4. Switch – 11,226 (19,197,506)
5. Switch Lite – 9,166 (5,223,631)
6. PlayStation 4 – 1,646 (7,856,171)
7. Xbox Series X – 595 (179,001)
8. Xbox Series S – 132 (250,301)
9. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 72 (1,190,692)

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