Elden Ring deserved this top 10, sad it's missing on its own home country

Thanks fixed that error :)

Official Top 100 from last year - https://sites.google.com/site/gamedatalibrary/games-by-year/2021-top-100

This just shows how Nintendo completely took over the Japanese market not just for console sales, but also software. Over 70% of the software sales came from Nintendo/Pokemon Company, and over 90% of software came from the Switch. And this was without those big 3rd party games like FF7R, Tales of Arise, RE2, RE7, RE8, RE4, Elden Ring, etc. If Nintendo's next system can handle all the major games coming out in the next few years then Japanese gamers are left with little reason to get a PS over a Switch 2 (assuming that's their next system). Doesn't help PS that PC gaming is growing in Japan where these games are also making their appearance.

Kind of amazing that the #1 game Pokemon S/V sold almost twice the #3 game PLA. Either way, Pokemon really dominated the chart this year.

updated first post with numbers provided by Games Data Library https://sites.google.com/site/gamedatalibrary/games-by-year/2022-top-100

Comparision between Official vs Unofficial

Official Top 100

NSW - 76

PS4 - 17

PS5 - 7

Unofficial Top 100

NSW - 69

PS4 - 19

PS5 - 12

As expected some PS4/PS5 games fell off due to Evergreens that were charting outside the Top 30

TOTAL: 23.410.132

NSW: 21.353.401 (91.2%)

PS4: 1.374.653 (5.9%)

PS5: 682.078 (2.9%)

Unofficial 

TOTAL: 22.352.619

NSW: 20.351.136 (91%)

PS4: 1.269.475 (5.7%)

PS5: 732.008 (3.3%)

Over 1M sales on top of the unofficial numbers

Top 15 Publishers Top 100 

1. Nintendo - 9.720.573 (41.5%)
2. Pokemon Co. - 7.118.186 (30.4%)
3. Square Enix - 1.393.878 (5.9%)
4. Konami - 767.058 (3.3%)
5. Sony - 627.597 (2.7%)
6. Microsoft - 608.215 (2.6%)
7. Bandai Namco - 596.129 (2.5%)
8. From Software - 498.452 (2.1%)
9. Other - 490.863 (2.1%)
10. Capcom - 389.582 (1.7%)
11. Koei Tecmo - 277.984 (1.2%)
12. Aniplex - 248.685 (1.1%)
13. Atlus - 174.489 (0.7%)
14. Electronic Arts - 159.973 (0.7%)
15. EXNOA - 146.087 (0.6%)
16. D3Publisher - 144.771 (0.6%)

Top 15 Publishers Top 100 (Unofficial Ranking):

1. Nintendo - 9.302.305 (41.6%)
2. Pokemon Co. - 7.059.246 (31.6%)
3. Square Enix - 1.372.808 (6.1%)
4. Konami - 632.320 (2.8%)
5. Sony - 578.492 (2.6%)
6. Microsoft - 548.701 (2.4%)
7. Bandai Namco - 490.008 (2.2%)
8. From Software - 471.255 (2.3%)
9. Other - 469.610 (2.1%)
10. Capcom - 356.914 (1.7%)
11. Koei Tecmo - 308.388 (1.4%)
12. Aniplex - 221.833 (1%)
13. Atlus - 168.107 (0.7%)
14. EXNOA - 141.085 (0.6%)
15. D3Publisher - 135.221 (0.6%)
16. Electronic Arts - 96.326 (0.4%)

Pokemon and Nintendo are truly simply juggernauts in their own country.

This might be a redundant fact since a few years now but oh boy did few people predict such happening back in 2017 😅