{"id":12261,"date":"2022-12-28T14:53:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/here-are-japans-top-30-best-selling-switch-eshop-games-for-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:53:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:53:25","slug":"here-are-japans-top-30-best-selling-switch-eshop-games-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/here-are-japans-top-30-best-selling-switch-eshop-games-for-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are Japan&#8217;s Top 30 Best-Selling Switch eShop Games For 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Unsurprisingly, Splatoon and Pok\u00e9mon dominate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has shared its <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/software\/feature\/ranking.html\">annual Switch eShop sales rankings<\/a> for Japan earlier today, and if you&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on the news over the last 12 months, then there will be no surprises here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a> is 2022&#8217;s best-selling game on the eShop, which shouldn&#8217;t be a shock given that it broke records in both physical and digital sales when it first launched.<\/p>\n<p>Right behind Splatoon is January&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_legends_arceus\">Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Arceus<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Violet<\/a> taking the third spot (Scarlet is in fourth as both games are counted separately). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/monster_hunter_rise\">Monster Hunter Rise<\/a>, last year&#8217;s number one, rounds out the top five, likely thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/monster_hunter_rise_sunbreak\">Sunbreak<\/a>&#8216;s launch over the summer. These rankings are based on sales on the eShop between January 1, 2022 and December 20, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/here-are-japans-top-30-best-selling-switch-eshop-games-for-2022\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Here Are Japan&#8217;s Top 30 Best-Selling Switch eShop Games For 2022<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unsurprisingly, Splatoon and Pok\u00e9mon dominate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has shared its <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/software\/feature\/ranking.html\">annual Switch eShop sales rankings<\/a> for Japan earlier today, and if you&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on the news over the last 12 months, then there will be no surprises here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a> is 2022&#8217;s best-selling game on the eShop, which shouldn&#8217;t be a shock given that it broke records in both physical and digital sales when it first launched.<\/p>\n<p>Right behind Splatoon is January&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_legends_arceus\">Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Arceus<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Violet<\/a> taking the third spot (Scarlet is in fourth as both games are counted separately). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/monster_hunter_rise\">Monster Hunter Rise<\/a>, last year&#8217;s number one, rounds out the top five, likely thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/monster_hunter_rise_sunbreak\">Sunbreak<\/a>&#8216;s launch over the summer. These rankings are based on sales on the eShop between January 1, 2022 and December 20, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/here-are-japans-top-30-best-selling-switch-eshop-games-for-2022\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}