{"id":8626,"date":"2022-10-18T09:16:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T09:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/splatoon-3-is-already-the-best-selling-video-game-of-2022-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T09:16:32","slug":"splatoon-3-is-already-the-best-selling-video-game-of-2022-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/splatoon-3-is-already-the-best-selling-video-game-of-2022-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Splatoon 3 Is Already The Best-Selling Video Game Of 2022 In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>That&#8217;s a lot of squid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a> just continues to splatter ink over all sorts of records, especially in Japan where the IP is huge. And it&#8217;s just surpassed another one \u2014 with the release of the Japan Monthly Report for September 2022, it&#8217;s now been confirmed that Splatoon 3 is the best-selling video game in Japan in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The data from the report was shared by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameDataLibrary\/status\/1582035959712923650\">Game Data Library<\/a> on Twitter, and it reveals that Nintendo&#8217;s third ink-based shooter sold just over 2.9 million retail units in the month of September alone. That means, in just a month, it&#8217;s surpassed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_legends_arceus\">Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Arceus<\/a>&#8216; 2.295 million retail unit sales.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/splatoon-3-is-already-the-best-selling-video-game-of-2022-in-japan\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Splatoon 3 Is Already The Best-Selling Video Game Of 2022 In Japan<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s a lot of squid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a> just continues to splatter ink over all sorts of records, especially in Japan where the IP is huge. And it&#8217;s just surpassed another one \u2014 with the release of the Japan Monthly Report for September 2022, it&#8217;s now been confirmed that Splatoon 3 is the best-selling video game in Japan in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The data from the report was shared by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameDataLibrary\/status\/1582035959712923650\">Game Data Library<\/a> on Twitter, and it reveals that Nintendo&#8217;s third ink-based shooter sold just over 2.9 million retail units in the month of September alone. That means, in just a month, it&#8217;s surpassed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_legends_arceus\">Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Arceus<\/a>&#8216; 2.295 million retail unit sales.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/splatoon-3-is-already-the-best-selling-video-game-of-2022-in-japan\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8627,"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\/8626"}],"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=8626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}