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thekitchensink on 06 October 2008

Did the original Xbox come out a year later in Japan? Cuz I know it launched within a month of the Gamecube.



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Zucas on 06 October 2008
ph4nt said:
The DS lite hardware numbers are frightening, almost double the Ps2's best year.

I can only imagine what DSi will do in an oversaturated market where the oversaturator is still the brand leader haha.

Also I'd say DS software is pretty frightening as well haha.  DS in general is frightening.

 



dante on 06 October 2008

wow really puts in to perspective how crazy the ds sales are well we all ready knew the were crazy but this looks even bigger it pretty much sold twice as much as the ps2 in its early years once the ds light came out



Yakuzaice on 06 October 2008
Soriku said:

Or maybe I really didn't know because I don't follow how much consoles sold the years before in comparisonand just asked a simple question The holiday season should make up for it.

Why would the holiday season make up a 456k unit deficit when you are comparing the same period of time?



crho on 06 October 2008

http://geimin.net/da/forecast.php

Hardware Sales Projections (May 2008)

2008 2009
PS2 431,000 191,000
PS3 2,272,000 3,688,000
Wii 4,126,000 3,898,000
XB360 187,000 148,000
DSL 5,859,000 5,247,000
PSP 2,553,000 1,959,000

Software Sales Projections (May 2008)

2008 2009
PS2 6,375,000 4,046,000
PS3 6,302,000 10,534,000
Wii 21,515,000 26,766,000
XB360 988,000 685,000
NDS 37,660,000 32,586,000
PSP 7,555,000 5,157,000


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Yakuzaice on 07 October 2008

Well their projections weren't that great.  PSP and 360 have already passed their 2008 projections.  The PS2 is only about 40k away.  The DS will need to sell 1.62 million more units in Oct/Nov/Dec than last year to meet that total.  That is nearly a 90% increase.  The Will would need to sell 876k more in that same period, an 83% increase.  The PS3 would need about a 200% increase.

As far as software.  360 has already surpassed their projections.  PSP has sold about 85% of their projected number.  I assume it will surpass it.  The Wii and DS are a little under half at 46% and 49% respectively..  The PS3 is at about 55% of the total.  The PS2 is around 72%.

EDIT: Well I looked at last years software.  Didn't actually record the numbers, but it looks like DS/Wii/PS3 would need to roughly double their software sales over last year in the last three months.  PSP and PS2 would probably make it, but the PS2 is likely to be lower than last year.  Granted software sales are much more likely to change due to big titles, especially in Japan.



Jo21 on 07 October 2008

2009 bump is GT5 and FF13 + versus.



crho on 01 December 2008

http://dubai.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/ghard/1228094892/399

- From Famitsu Game Hakusho. (millions of units sold)

  2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 7-Year
Total
Total Software 49.96 54.06 54.50 58.52 55.43 77.16 75.74 425.37
Pokemon Series 1.20 3.46 2.80 4.48 2.29 6.00 2.87 23.10
Dragon Quest Series 3.05 1.28 0.88 5.25 0.71 1.30 2.57 15.04
Final Fantasy Series 2.68 0.90 3.19 1.00 0.48 4.74 3.47 16.46
Other RPGs 3.92 6.81 2.81 2.43 5.00 4.25 1.20 26.42


johnsobas on 01 December 2008

everything is down this year, console hardware sales are down about 12% while handhelds are down over 20% so far this year. I think you can explain some of the handheld decrease because of the saturation of the DS, it sold so much last year it can't continue to sell that well forever, it has almost reached a 1/4 attach rate with the japanese population.



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BKK2 on 01 December 2008

I take it Famitsu have only been tracking sales since 2000. Here's a graph of sales from 1983 - 1999, unfortunately it doesn't include PC Engine, but final shipments were 5.84m for all models, of which 3.92 were the original PC Engine.



From this graph we can see that around 1.4m 8-bit Sega systems were sold (I counted the pixels once), SG-1000 shipped 400,000, so around 1m Master Systems were sold in Japan. PS1 peaked in 1997 with around 5m sales.