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HappySqurriel on 20 July 2007
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Tetsuya said:
HappySqurriel said:

If you simply look at Japaneese sales for Nintendo based systems this is what you have:

  1. Gameboy (32.47 Million)
  2. Nintendo Entertainment System (19.23 Million)
  3. Super Nintendo Entertainment System (17.15 Million)
  4. Nintendo DS (18.29 Million)
  5. Gameboy Advance (16.66 Million)
  6. N64 (5.55 Million)
  7. Gamecube (4.02 Million)
  8. Wii (3.10 Million)

 


as you can tell nintendo isnt faring well in japan its a decrease everytime a successor comes out..expect the DS

 


Actually the Japaneese market is pretty interesting to watch in general:

PS2 (25.42) + Gamecube (4.02) + Dreamcast (2.32) + XBox (0.53)  = 32.29
Playstation (21.59) + N64 (5.55) + Saturn (5.74) = 32.88

When you factor in the reduction from the Gameboy to the Gameboy advance, and the reduction in popularity of arcades since (about) 2000 it becomes clear that the Japaneese videogame market (as a whole) has been shrinking since Sony became dominant; even the software sales data shows that most series saw a sales reduction when they moved from the Playstation to the PS2.

I don't blame Sony for this but I do think it explains the recent success of the Wii and DS. People in Japan were (are) probably bored of the same formulaic games that have been produced since the SNES; many of their favourite games (Final Fantasy & Dragon Quest) have not changed that much since they were on the NES or SNES.