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 models bought throughout the Nintendo Swap and PlayStation 4. Since its launch, the sport has collected a complete of 336,000 copies bought, surpassing the efficiency of its predecessor, “eBaseball Highly effective Professional Baseball 2022,” which bought 259,000 models in the identical timeframe.

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

Bandai Namco’s new title, “That Time I Obtained 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 bought 6,000 models, touchdown it at thirty sixth place within the total 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 sturdy efficiency of Highly effective Professional Baseball.

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