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title: "Best-Selling games in Japan at the end of 2017"
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description: "You may be wondering which games were the best-sellers last year in Japan. Well, we have the answer. It was Pokemon Ultra Sun & Pokemon Ultra Moon for the Nintendo 3DS which took the top spot"
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Best-Selling games in Japan at the end of 2017 | General News | NintendoReporters

 [![Best-Selling games in Japan at the end of 2017](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/best-selling-games-in-japan-at-the-end-of-2017.png "Best-Selling games in Japan at the end of 2017")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/best-selling-games-in-japan-at-the-end-of-2017.png)You may be wondering which games were the best-sellers last year in Japan. Well, we have the answer.

It was Pokemon Ultra Sun & Pokemon Ultra Moon for the Nintendo 3DS which took the top spot, according to data compiled by Famitsu.

## [](#best-sellers-2017-in-japan)Best-sellers 2017 in Japan

1. Pokémon Ultra Sun Moon (3DS) – 2,003,607
2. Splatoon 2 (Switch) – 1,752,096
3. Dragon Quest XI: Sugisarishi Toki o Motomete (3DS) – 1,744,603
4. Monster Hunter XX (3DS) – 1,684,991
5. Dragon Quest XI: Sugisarishi Toki o Motomete (PS4) – 1,336,180
6. Super Mario Odyssey (Switch) – 1,324,280
7. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch) – 1,103,744
8. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch) – 688,044
9. Pokémon Sun Moon (3DS) 576,506
10. Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS (3DS) – 423,073

**Please note**: numbers are from 26 December 2016 – 31 December 2017 and collated using Famitsu data and including all retail sales (including download cards) but without eShop sales.

Is it a surprise? Well perhaps not really if you look into the fact that most Nintendo Switch titles in the list came out well before the window itself.

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