Last week in Japan, it was another quiet week in video game software and hardware sales. Famitsu’s weekly sales chart shows that for the second week in a row a game has failed to reach the 10,000 mark.
After a small break for Golden Week earlier this month, Famitsu is back with two weeks of video game sales from April 29 to May 12, during which the Switch sured the PS4 in total unit sales in Japan.
Microsoft has made classic Minecraft available to play for free via your internet browser, as part of the celebration for the game’s 10th anniversary.
Nintendo shared a new video of Hyrule Castle from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as imagined before the fall of Hyrule, recreated in Minecraft by Team-Kyo.
Last week in Japan, it was raining iron and an assortment of alien parts with the release of Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain, Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit, and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster for Switch.
Last week in Japan, we saw the debut of the Nintendo Switch game Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission as the key release, along with strong follow-up sales from Yoshi’s Crafted World and Sekiro.
The massively popular sandbox game Minecraft first released for PC back in November 2011 and it continues to grow, as Mojang announced that the world’s best-selling PC game has reached 30 million in sales.
Last week in Japan was a bit of a bittersweet week, as it saw the release of big titles like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Super Robot Wars T, and Atelier Lulua, but it was also the final week of the sales column