Kirby and the forgotten land was the best-selling game of the week in Japan

Kirby and the forgotten land was the best-selling video game during last week in Japan stores.

The new delivery for Switch of the popular Hal Laboratory franchise and Nintendo sold more than 380,000 copies at its premiere, a milestone that only surpassed Sagas as Super Mario, Pokémon or Splatoon.

Coinciding with the launch of the new Kirby were also sold around eighty-four thousand units of Nintendo Switch, highlighting the almost fifty thousand of the OLED model. The most premium switch model thus approaches a million and a half of units in Japan in just six months, a figure that will reach full security this week.

The other great release this week was Ghostwire: Tokyo, who enters the sixth position of the Top Ten. The game of Gameworks tango and Bethesda sold more than ten thousand copies in a week in which PlayStation 5 exceeded thirty-five thousand units sold in Japan, counting the model with disc reader and digital.

Here are the Software and Hardware Sales Lists in Japan during the week from March 21 to 27:

1. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Nintendo, 03/25/22) - 380,060 (new)

1. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) - 18,931 (4,518,473)
2. [NSW] Pokémon Legends: Arceus (The Pokemon Company, 01/28/22) - 17,941 (2,195,400)
3. [PS4] Elden Ring (fromSoftware, 02/25/22) - 13,918 (307,546)
4. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) - 13,305 (2,574,724)
5. [PS5] Ghostwire: Tokyo (Bethesda Softworks, 03/25/22) - 10,144 (new)
6. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 07/12/18) - 8,982 (4,822,623)
7. [PS4] Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin (Square Enix, 03/18/22) - 7,720 (36,664)
8. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) - 7,710 (920,035)
9. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 03/03/17) - 5,731 (1,987,301)

1. Switch OLED Model - 49,037 (1,490,352)
2. PLAYSTATION 5 - 32,364 (1,271,750)
3. Switch - 21,784 (18,138,373)
4. Switch Lite - 12,979 (4,648,386)
5. PLAYSTATION 5 DIGITAL EDITION - 3,110 (225,767)
6. NEW 2DS LL (includes 2DS) - 280 (1,184,344)
7. Xbox Series X - 246 (89,231)
8. Xbox SERIES S - 144 (75,059)
9. PLAYSTATION 4 - 13 (7,819,392)