Game sales ranking in Japan in 2022: Switch games take the lead in nearly 90%.

CTOnews.com, December 11 news, towards the end of the year, statistics from Japanese media FAMI Tong show that Switch is absolutely ahead of the Japanese game sales rankings with an 89.2% market share in 2022.

Statistics show that in the Japanese game market in 2022, the sales of Switch games reached 18666541 sets, with a market share of 89.2%, far ahead, and the number of new games in 2022 was 123 million. In second place is Sony PS4, with sales of 1438867 games and a market share of 6.9%. The number of new games in 2022 was 72 games. In third place is PS5, with 813249 games sold and a market share of 3.9%. The number of new games in 2022 was 42 games.

CTOnews.com learned that last month Nintendo announced its results for the first half of the fiscal year. As of September 30, cumulative global sales of Switch hardware had reached 114.3 million units, according to the financial report. However, Nintendo cut its forecast for Switch sales this fiscal year from 21 million to 19 million.