Nintendo dominated the Japanese video game market in 2020 with these impressive figures

We continue to receive interesting sales data from Japan. In this case, they come from Famitsu and focus on the whole of last year 2020.

To no one’s surprise, Nintendo dominated the Japanese market in that time period. This can easily be seen by the fact that 17 of the top 20 best-selling games are Switch games.

We leave you with the list:

• 01./00. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons # (Nintendo) {2020.03.20} (¥5,980) – 4,102,444 / 6,710,861
• 02./00. NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami) {2020.11.19} (¥6,300) – 2,072,296 / NEW
• 03./00. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure # (Nintendo) {2019.10.18} (¥7,980) – 1,734,446 / 2,479,573
• 04./00. NSW] Monster Hunter Rise # (Capcom) {2021.03.26} (¥7,990) – 1,302,132 / NEW
• 05./00. [PS4] Final Fantasy VII Remake # (Square Enix) {2020.04.10} (¥8,980) – 954,342 / NEW
• 06./00. NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} (¥5,980) – 910,664 / 3,751,594
• 07./00. NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo) {2020.06.05} (¥3,980) – 668,725 / NEW
• 08./00. NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate # (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} (¥7.200) – 595.665 / 4.218.939
• 09./00. NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo) {2021.02.12} (¥5,980) – 592,683 / NEW
• 10./00. NSW] Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Nintendo) {2020.09.18} (¥6,480) – 578,850 / NEW
• 11./00. NSW] Pikmin 3 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2020.10.30} (¥5,980) – 552,910 / NEW
• 12./00. NSW] Minecraft # (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} (¥3,600) – 540,900 / 1,872,739
• 13./00. NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield # (Pokemon Co.) {2019.11.15} (¥5,980) – 471,852 / 4,014,376
• 14./00. [NSW] Splatoon 2 # (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} (¥5,980) – 469,560 / 3,825,969
• 15./00. NSW] Super Mario Party # (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} (¥5,980) – 468,982 / 1,850,769
• 16./00. [PS4] Ghost of Tsushima (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2020.07.17} (¥6,900) – 439,739 / NEW
• 17./00. NSW] Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity # (Koei Tecmo) {2020.11.20} (¥7,200) – 356,416 / NEW
• 18./00. NSW] Paper Mario: The Origami King (Nintendo) {2020.07.17} (¥5,980) – 310,874 / NEW
• 19./00. NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 (Konami) {2020.07.09} (¥6,980) – 293,242 / NEW
• 20./00. PS4] Resident Evil 3 # (Capcom) {2020.04.03} (¥7,800) – 272,004 / NEW

This confirms that Nintendo Switch sold 23 million games last year in Japan, 3 million more than in 2019: