Pokemon Sun and Moon were the best-selling games of 2016 in Japan

Pokemon Sun and Moon may have launched just last month, but that was enough time for them to become the best-selling games of 2016 in Japan. It looks like the most popular of the two was indeed Pokemon Sun, which comes in at number one – followed directly by Pokemon Moon. Read on below for the top 10 games in Japan for 2016, with separate charts for new and used software. You may notice that even though it debuted back in 2014, Pokemon Alpha Sapphire made it in the used list.

New software

1. [3DS] Pokémon Sun (The Pokémon Company)
2. [3DS] Pokémon Moon (The Pokémon Company)
3. [PS4] Final Fantasy XV (Square-Enix)
4. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3 (Square-Enix)
5. [PS4] Dark Souls III (From Software)
6. [PS4] Persona 5 (Atlus)
7. [PS4] Battlefield 1 (Electronic Arts)
8. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch 3: Sushi (Level-5)
9. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch 3: Tempura (Level-5)
10. [PS4] Dragon Quest Heroes II (Square-Enix)

Used software

1. [3DS] Monster Hunter Generations (Capcom)
2. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
3. [Wii U] Splatoon (Nintendo)
4. [Wii U] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Nintendo)
5. [PS4] The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Spike-Chunsoft)
6. [PS4] Dark Souls III (From Software)
7. [PS4] Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft)
8. [PS4] Fallout 4 (Bethesda Softworks)
9. [3DS] Pokémon Alpha Sapphire (The Pokémon Company)
10. [3DS] Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (Square-Enix)

Source: Perfectly Nintendo