Monster Hunter Rise Secures Top Spot with 217,000 Copies Sold in Japan

In summary: The release of Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak has pushed the 2021 title to over 200,000 copies sold. July marked the second-highest sales month for PS5 units, with 89,000 consoles sold. Mario Party Superstars and Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics have both reached one million copies sold. Monster Hunter Rise was the best-selling physical game in Japan during July, thanks to the release of its latest expansion, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, selling approximately 217,000 copies. According to Famitsu data, this significantly outpaced the next best-selling title, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, which sold around 112,000 copies, despite only having three days on the market. Nintendo Switch Sports maintained its strong sales, coming in third for the second consecutive month with 111,000 copies sold. New entries in the top 10 include Live A Live at No.4, selling about 85,000 copies after its release on July 22, and Gran Turismo 7, the only PS5 game in the top 30, selling 30,000 copies in July. Notably, two games have surpassed one million copies sold: Mario Party Superstars and Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics, released in June 2020 and October 2021, respectively. Nintendo remained the top-selling publisher in Japan, accounting for 36.1% of all physical game sales, while Capcom jumped to No.2 with 15.1% of the market. Over 1.3 million Switch games were sold in July, making it the second-best month of 2022. Nintendo dominated the market with 86.2% of sales, but Sony saw an increase in PS4 and PS5 sales to 4.3% and 9.2%, respectively. July saw the sale of 354,000 Switch consoles, the second-highest month for console sales this year, with the OLED model accounting for 34.6% of sales. The PS5 also experienced its second-best sales month in 2022, with over 89,000 units sold, increasing its market share from 15.2% in June to 18.2% in July. The top 10 best-selling physical games in Japan for July 2022, according to Famitsu, are: Monster Hunter Rise / Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Nintendo Switch Sports, Live A Live, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Minecraft: Switch Edition, Ring Fit Adventure, Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, and Gran Turismo 7.