Top 10 best-selling video games in Japan in August 2024

Konami’s “Highly effective Professional Baseball 2024-2025” dominated Japan’s sport charts for the second consecutive month in August, securing the highest spot with one other 76,000 items offered throughout the Nintendo Swap and PlayStation 4. Since its launch, the sport has gathered a complete of 336,000 copies offered, surpassing the efficiency of its predecessor, “eBaseball Highly effective Professional Baseball 2022,” which offered 259,000 items in the identical timeframe.

In the meantime, Nintendo’s Mario Kart 8 Deluxe jumped to second place, promoting 50,000 items in August and enhancing from its fourth place in July. Nintendo Swap Sports activities noticed a major leap as nicely, climbing to 3rd place as a result of addition of a basketball mode to the sport in July.

Bandai Namco’s new title, “That Time I Acquired Reincarnated as a Slime ISEKAI Chronicles,” made its debut at quantity eight on the charts, with the Swap model promoting 23,000 copies. The PlayStation 5 model offered 6,000 items, touchdown it at thirty sixth place within the general rankings.

When it comes to publishers, Nintendo led with a commanding 40.9% market share, producing ¥2.3 billion in gross sales. Konami maintained the second spot with a 14% share, bolstered by the robust efficiency of Highly effective Professional Baseball.

The Swap remained Japan’s top-selling console in August, with 883,789 boxed video games offered, capturing a formidable 88.1% of the software program market. On the {hardware} entrance, the Swap offered 228,000 items throughout its three fashions, whereas the PlayStation 5 adopted with 104,000 items offered.