Hogwarts Legacy less than two months after its launch it became the second best-selling retail game in Japan on PS5, slightly beating Horizon Forbidden West and Elden Ring, respectively in third and fourth position. In first place instead we find Gran Turismo 7 with a wide margin of detachment.
Below we have reported the top 20 of the best-selling retail PS5 games in Japan, compiled by the Game Data Library Twitter account based on the latest sales data reported by Famitsu, which saw Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet triumph for Switch.
- Gran Turismo 7 – 298,945 copies
- Hogwarts Legacy – 154.174
- Horizon Forbidden West – 151,755 copies
- Elden Ring – 141,741 copies
- Resident Evil Village (all versions) – 85,103 copies
- Tales of Arise – 68,075 copies
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion – 67,071 copies
- Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales – 66,238 copies
- Demon’s Souls Remake – 58.661
- God of War: Ragnarok – 53,816 copies
- Lost Judgment – 46,417 copies
- Wild Hearts – 45,475 copies
- Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty – 42,260 copies
- Dragon Quest X – 41,579 copies
- Like a Dragon: Ishin! – 39,057 copies
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles – 38,257 copies
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade – 37,060 copies
- Earth Defense Force 6 – 36,985 copies
- Forspoken – 35,056 copies
- Judgment: Remastered – 34,288 copies
As we can see, the charm of the Harry Potter universe does not leave Japan indifferent either, where players usually prefer oriental-style productions. It will be interesting to see the numbers that Avalanche Software’s action RPG will record at the launch of the Switch version scheduled for July 25thconsidering the great popularity of the Nintendo console in the motherland.
We can also note that there are very few games made in the West that appear in the ranking: in addition to Hogwarts Legacy we only find the exclusives made in PlayStation, i.e. Horizon Forbidden West, Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales (eighth), God of War: Ragnarok ( tenth), the latter among other things not too far from the numbers recorded by Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty and Wild Hearts, published a few weeks ago.
That said, the ranking only offers us a partial picture of PS5 game sales in Japan as it only takes into account physical copies, thus not including digital purchases via PlayStation Store.
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