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Kerotan on 13 December 2016

Japan Software by Platform

PlatformWeekly (change)Total
3DS 1,953,890 (+1,337%) 100,328,704
PS4 132,657 (-51%) 15,734,851
PSV 85,070 (-41%) 22,251,373
PS3 23,685 (+13%) 80,425,113
WiiU 21,292 (+8%) 12,995,544
XOne 1,784 (+14%) 355,019
DS 847 (+17%) 175,178,511
Wii 617 (+17%) 69,298,989
PSP 235 (+18%) 77,316,495
X360 27 (+17%)

12,671,26

 

 

The release of pokemon was enough to propel it passed the milestone that not too many consoles hit in japan.  

 

Congrats 3DS. 



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KLXVER on 13 December 2016

Nice.

Gotta give it to MS for still hanging in there with the XB1.



Darwinianevolution on 13 December 2016

Wow, only behind the monster that was the DS. And with a consierably harder competition to beat. I'm really looking forward to see how well the Switch does there. Also, I didn't know the PS3 did better software sales-wise than the PSP.



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Barkley on 13 December 2016
Darwinianevolution said:
Wow, only behind the monster that was the DS.

Hmmm?

PS1, NES, PS2, SNES, DS and the Gameboy are all still ahead of it in Japan. :P

With the way gaming is going in Japan we'll be lucky if any traditional gaming system gets above 100 million again though...



Darwinianevolution on 13 December 2016
Barkley said:
Darwinianevolution said:
Wow, only behind the monster that was the DS.

Hmmm?

PS1, NES, PS2, SNES, DS and the Gameboy are all still ahead of it in Japan. :P

With the way gaming is going in Japan we'll be lucky if any traditional gaming system gets above 100 million again though...

Dammit, the list there didn't included those, I completely missed them. :P



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Platina on 14 December 2016

Nice milestone!



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Adaline on 14 December 2016

Nice.. Thanks for this information :)



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tak13 on 14 December 2016
Barkley said:
Darwinianevolution said:
Wow, only behind the monster that was the DS.

Hmmm?

PS1, NES, PS2, SNES, DS and the Gameboy are all still ahead of it in Japan. :P

With the way gaming is going in Japan we'll be lucky if any traditional gaming system gets above 100 million again though...

It will probably surpass GB ! Although, gameboy is two gen handheld console, remember gameboy had its own new vast game library. unlike new 3ds...

3DS have sold ( shipped+digital ) 112m software copies in Japan as of September... Gameboy ( GB+GBC ) software sales are 157m.

I don't know if it can pass snes...

Anyway, home consoles anywise sell more software than handheld consoles ( Not for Japan after 7th gen though )   ,  home console gamers buy more software than handheld console gamers, maybe it's because home consoles have way bigger third party support.

 



Kerotan on 16 December 2016
Adaline said:
Nice.. Thanks for this information :)

Np dude.  

 

BTW I want to say it's funny people attack me for posting ps4 passed 100m in SW sales in America as being "biased". 

 

When this is literally my last thread.  Lol.