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Fiscal Year 2008 First-Half Hardware Sales Comparison (April - September)
- Hardware sales in 2007 totaled 7.07 million.
- Hardware sales in 2008 totaled 4.82 million. A year-on-year decline of 31.8% or 2.25 million.
Fiscal Year 2008 First-Half Software Sales Comparison (April - September)
- Software sales in 2007 totaled 35.18 million.
- Software sales in 2008 totaled 31.28 million. A year-on-year decline of 11.1% or 3.9 million.
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Fiscal Year 2007/2008 First-Half Game Publisher Ranking (April - September)
- Top 10 publishers in 2007 are Nintendo, Square Enix, Bandai Namco Games, Capcom, Konami, Pokemon, SCE, Koei, Sega and Hudson. Others account for 13.2% of sales.
- Top 10 publishers in 2008 are Nintendo, Bandai Namco Games, Konami, Capcom, Pokemon, Square Enix, Sega, Koei, SCE and Atlus. Others account for 12.2% of sales.
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Fiscal Year 2008 First-Half DS Software TOP5 (April - September)
- Top 5 DS Games in 2008 are Pokemon Platinum, Dragon Quest V, Rhythm Tengoku Gold, Daigasso! Band Brothers DX and Meccha! Taiko no Tatsujin DS.
- Rank #3, #4 and #5 are music games.
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PSP Weekly Sales Transition (From latter half of 2007)
- Notable weeks outside of holiday season. PSP-2000 Launch (2007.09.20), MHP 2nd G Launch (2008.03.27) and PSP-3000 Launch (2008.10.16).
- Upcoming PSP software for 2008. MHP 2nd G PSP the Best (10.30), Gundam vs. Gundam (11.20) and Dissidia Final Fantasy (12.18).
