With your health and morbidity in 2019, it's time to take a look back at the best-selling games of the year in Nintendo's Japanese world.
The following list is from Famitsu's sales tracking data. As you can see, Pokémon Sword and Shield ride home victory with sales totaling 2,988,134. The games achieved this huge feat though it only launched in mid-November, selling nearly three million copies in Japan at the time.
Nine of the top 10 positions are actually held by Nintendo Switch titles, via Kingdom Hearts III the only PS4 game to make a list. The closest opponent to Pokémon Super Smash Bros. Finally
Here are the top ten (thank you, MCV
Rto be lazy | The platform | Subject | Publisher | Release date | Copies For Sale / Year (Estimated) |
Increasing Copies For Sale (Estimated) |
1 | Change | Pokémon Sword and Shield | Pokémon Company | 11/15/19 | 2,988,134 | 2,988,134 |
2 | Change | Super Smash Bros. Finally | Nintendo | 12/7/18 | 1,092,397 | 3,453,052 |
3 | PS4 | Kingdom Hearts III | Square Enix | 1/25/19 | 861,226 | 861,226 |
4 | Change | Manufacturer of Super 2 | Nintendo | 6/28/19 | 800,504 | 800,504 |
5 | Change | New Super Mario Bros. You are Deluxe | Nintendo | 1/11/19 | 747,589 | 747,589 |
6 | Change | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | Nintendo | 4/28/17 | 628,712 | 2,659,009 |
7 | Change | Minecraft | Microsoft Japan | 6/21/18 | 620,894 | 1,145,939 |
8 | Change | Luigi's House 3 | Nintendo | 10/31/19 | 505,998 | 505,998 |
9 | Change | Super Mario Party | Nintendo | 10/5/18 | 498,857 | 1,263,710 |
10 | Change | Ring Fit Adventure | Nintendo | 10/18/19 | 495,639 | 495,639 |
The Nintendo Switch family of plans had an impressive year on the side of things of utility, too. Combined, the performance of the switchchart with the 2019 Lite switch saw system sales increase by 29% – a direct difference to the PS4 family of 29% plans this fall.
What a wonderful year!