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Oyvoyvoyv on 22 January 2008
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Over the last four years, gaming has grown massively. This is a sum-up of what has happened over the last for years. Remember, all the data from earlier years isn't correct, but I think it is fairly close, anywan, keep in mind that these are far form 100 % numbers. There are only software numbers from the last three years in NA. If anything I write is incorrect (which it always is) please tell me.

2004:

Japan: Hardware: Hardware:

Console Year Total
3,277,64717,786,057 
2,987,66114,972,939
1,396,5481,396,548
677,6643,665,431
476,029476,029
77,96719,348,925
37,110465,319
5,149203,731
3,79831,301,489
Total 8,939,573

Software: Software Totals:

Console Year Total
16,979,43579,953,588
13,325,55239,721,790
4,114,62418,132,594
1,709,5251,709,525
740,715740,715
210,5501,225,952
Total 37,080,401  
 

Publishers:

Publisher Totals:

Console Year
Nintendo 16,486,197
Enix 5,111,880
Konami 3,725,571
Koei 1,925,456
Capcom 1,764,865
Namco 1,486,304
Bandai 1,478,536
Square 1,132,950
Sony 1,121,915
Banpresto 627,309
Total 37,080,401

Sum up:

PS2 dominates both hardware and software for the consoles.
Gamecube has a attachment rate of 6:1 this year, and a total of 5:1. The Ps2 has 5:1 this year and 4,5:1 in total.
The DS has an ok start, selling a little under half than its pressessor during the 1 months it is out. The software is going bad, people only buy a little more than 1 game pr DS.
Nintendo as a publisher is very dominant. They sell 3 times as much as Enix, and has more than a third of the sales. On Nintendo consoles there are sold 18,5M games, 16,5M were made by Nitendo.
The total attachment rate is about 4:1

America:

Hardware:

Console Year Total
8,378,12131,153,790
5,654,49930,906,957
4,608,13112,984,859
2,592,0269,867,425
1,463,6051,463,605
Total 22,696,382

 

Sum up:
Xbox has a good year due to Halo 2, and is almost able to keep up with the PS2 this year.
Accordnig to the little data in the database, Both Sony and Microsoft sold more games than Nintendo.

2005:

Japan:

Hardware:

Hardware:

Console Year Total
4,236,1975,632,745
2,254,3192,730,348
2,175,54119,961,598
1,260,45816,233,397
270,5653,935,996
85,02385,023
14,06119,362,986
12,490477,809
Total 10,308,654

 Software Totals:

Console Year Total
14,827,51394,781,101
12,839,73214,549,257
4,496,16244,217,952
2,603,8483,344,563
2,601,16420,733,758
143,374143,374
6,5361,232,488
Total 37,518,329  

Publisher Totals:

Console Year
Nintendo 14,559,226
Bandai 3,868,820
Konami 3,245,748
Capcom 2,367,529
Namco 2,133,197
Square 1,964,350
Sony 1,855,573
Sega 1,690,242
Koei 1,501,806
Banpresto 1,265,607
Total 37,518,329

Sum up:
Ps2 keeps the dominance.
DS really catches on and sells as almost much pr month as it did in 2004.
Nintendo keeps publisher dominance.
The Psp establishes itself in the market, and sells half of the DS. The software numbers are similar to DS last year.
The attachment rate overall is a little lover than last year.

North America:

Hardware:

Console Year Total
6,309,74637,216,703
4,963,57536,117,365
3,938,2743,938,274
2,925,8494,389,454
2,492,04215,476,901
1,836,86311,704,288
651,336651,336
Total 23,117,685

Software Totals:

Console Year Total
42,009,83957,483,512
11,037,14511,037,145
9,681,48011,275,453
5,662,4747,125,349
2,846,7222,846,722
1,371,0616,098,404
811,248811,248
Total 73,419,969  

 

Publisher Totals:

Console Year
EA 18,981,516
Sony 10,148,866
Nintendo 8,453,607
Activision 7,125,150
LucasArts 3,747,030
THQ 3,512,495
Take 2 3,344,252
Ubisoft 2,907,227
Konami 2,067,027
Capcom 1,724,625
Total 73,419,969

Sum up: Ps2 is dominant within consoles
PsP beats DS both in hardware and in software and is now pretty much tied up with the DS. Sonydomination for next gen?
X360 launches late, so not a lot of hardware sales, software sales are pretty big and 4:1 in attachment rate.
EA is the clearly biggest publisher, and sells tied with nr 2 and 3 combined. Sony sells more than Nintendo (as a publisher).
Around 66 % of the software sales on Nintendo systems are games made by Nintendo.
The overall attachment rate is about 3:1.
Ps: the GBA software numbers are weird.

2006.

Japan:

Hardware:

Console Year Total
8,420,51314,053,258
1,884,4934,614,841
1,525,43821,487,036
959,153959,153
472,605472,605
410,60116,643,998
200,291285,314
77,6544,013,650
Total 13,950,748

Software Totals:

Console Year Total
37,595,18452,144,441
19,435,803114,216,904
5,272,4958,617,058
2,658,33846,876,290
2,034,4432,034,443
750,996894,370
583,52921,317,287
470,616470,616
Total 68,801,404  

Publisher Totals:

Console Year
Nintendo 32,137,471
Square 5,470,216
Bandai 4,751,753
Konami 4,412,868
Sega 3,810,474
Capcom 3,113,366
Sony 2,448,613
Namco 2,431,575
Enix 1,696,136
Koei 1,237,610
Total 68,801,404

Sum up:
Next gen is now here!
Ps3 starts out surprisingly low.
Wii outsells it 2:1.
They both launch relatively late, in mid November.
Ds becomes DS lite, and sales go through the roof! It beats the PSP 5:1 and shows Sony that they can't come and take their turf! It keeps an attachment rate of 4:1 while the PSP has 3:1.
Nintendomination begins! Nintendo has 48ish % of the publisher sales, 55 ish % of the hardware sales and 62 ish % of the software sales market! 3rd party catches up, and manage to sell 10 mill, compared to Ninty's 32M.
The total attachment rate is 5:1. Ps3 has an attachment rate of less than 1:1 and Wii has 4:1.

America:

Hardware:

Console Year Total
5,730,90910,120,363
5,404,42242,621,125
4,431,9275,083,263
3,730,14939,847,514
3,323,2617,261,535
1,228,9081,228,908
857,64212,561,930
746,653746,653
453,99015,930,891
Total 25,907,861
 
Software Totals:
Console Year Total
52,250,385109,733,897
26,422,98737,698,440
23,215,01826,061,740
16,205,10127,242,246
6,602,06413,727,413
4,635,9044,635,904
3,192,8279,291,231
2,110,0472,921,295
1,516,9821,516,982
Total 136,151,315  

Publisher Totals:

Console Year
EA 31,351,650
Nintendo 20,634,581
Activision 12,846,910
THQ 9,690,805
Take 2 8,889,487
Sony 8,862,972
Ubisoft 5,984,516
Square 4,395,014
Eidos 4,138,194
Microsoft 3,863,906
Total 136,151,315

Sum up:
Next Gen arrives! Ps3 and Wii launches late in the year, mid Nov. The next generation isn't totally dominant. The Ps2 sells 1/5 more hardware than the X360, and twice as much software. The gamecube sells 1/7 more hardware than the PS3, and 4 times as much software. It also sells 50 % more software than its successor.
DS takes the lead and almost doubles the PSPs hardware sales and sells 50 % more software. The PSP has an attachment rate of 5:1 this year, while the DS has a little over 4:1. Nintendo slowly climbes as a publisher, while EA loses share. Nintendo was before 1/9 of the sales, now it is 1/7. Ea is now 1/4 while it earlier was over 1/3.

 

 2007:

 

Japan:

Hardware:

Console Year Total
7,311,61821,364,876
3,681,2394,640,392
3,108,0167,722,857
1,218,6121,691,217
810,15222,297,188
257,924543,238
57,63816,701,636
10,6294,024,279
Total 16,455,828

Software Totals:

Console Year Total
37,278,57289,423,013
11,893,68313,928,126
10,481,485124,698,389
5,681,22014,298,278
2,985,6603,456,276
1,353,4892,247,859
521,05847,397,348
15,7148,646,086
14,99321,332,280
Total 70,225,874  

Publisher Totals:
Console Year
Nintendo 27,706,232
Capcom 4,900,361
Bandai 4,683,624
Konami 4,328,479
Square 4,229,151
Enix 2,918,864
Sega 2,382,067
Koei 2,159,008
Namco 2,030,573
Banpresto 1,763,706
Total 70,225,874

Sum up: DS remains on top, has an attachment rate of totally 5:1 this year, which is higher than the 4,5:1 average. PSP sells a third of the hardware and a seventh of the software. The attachment rate is abysmal at less than 2:1. In hardware, Ps3 beats Ps2 this year with 50 %, but has bad attachment rate at 2,4:1 and sells a third as much software. Ps2 now has a fantastic attachment rate through all time, at almost 6:1. Wii + Ds does in hardware sell as much as Psp + Ps2 + Ps3 + X360 and in software they sell 2,5 times as much. This means, Nintendo machines have 2,5 times as high attachment rate as the others.
As a publisher, this is a bad year for Nintendo. They only have 40 % of the share! In 06 they had 48 %. In 05 they also had 40 %. The reason is that third party has managed to have a 44 % share of the Wii. Nintendo is now down to 56 %. Sure... Third party games do not sell on Wii.

 

North America:
PS due to lack of space I have to write console name.


Hardware:

Console

Year Total
DS10,406,56920,526,932
Wii7,149,1238,378,031
Xbox3605,291,68710,374,950
Ps24,227,92646,849,051
PSP4,034,59711,296,132
PS32,777,7453,524,398
GBA1,561,72841,409,242
GCN176,55912,738,489
XB2,18615,933,077
Total 35,628,120
 Software Totals:

Console

Year Total
X36048,014,33874,076,078
DS37,967,56675,666,006
Wii37,481,34542,117,249
Ps236,083,540145,817,437
PSP16,212,50843,454,754
Ps315,198,36316,715,345
GCN2,150,04415,877,457
XB1,179,19810,470,429
GBA494,5103,415,805
Total 194,781,412  
 Publisher Totals:

Console

Year
Nintendo 41,211,836
EA 30,044,143
Activision 24,532,156
Microsoft 12,223,246
Take 2 11,694,998
Sony 11,196,138
Ubisoft 11,026,366
THQ 9,723,563
Sega 4,846,276
Capcom 3,817,968
Total 194,781,412

Sum up:
DS outsells the PSP 2,5:1 in hardware and 2,3:1 in software. DS attachment rate is 3,7:1 while PSP has 4:1. Who said PSP gamers don't buy games?
Wii takes the year in hardware, but has no shot at beating the 360 in software.
Ps2 refuses to fall off, and beats its successor by 50 % in hardware and does more than double it in software. Its overall attachment rate now ends at only a little higher than 3:1 in lifetime.
Gaming industry has had a big boom. Hardware sales did from 04-05 increase with 1M 05-06 with 2 mill, and now it increases with 11M from 06.
Software sales are of course also increasing, but the attachment rate isn't increasing a lot,  it's still on 5,5:1 while it was on 5,2:1 in 06.
Nintendo grabs the domiance as a developer! This year, it beats EA with 1/3. They now own 1/5 of the sales (as a publisher) while they had 1/7 in 06 and 1/9 in 05. 3rd party support is also comming up on Nintendo consoles. Now nintendo only owns 60 % of the software sales.

 

To come later: Sum up of last 4 years. I'll add that later. Again, if something is wrong or needs to be added tell me

 

 

Japan total sales:

Hardware sales:

DS: 21,3M = 5,4M/year
PSP: 7,7M = 1,9M/year
Wii: 4,6M = 2,3M/year
Ps2: 4,5M = 1,1M/year
GBA: 1,8M = 425K/year 
Ps3 1,7M = 850k/year
X360: 0,54M = 180k/year
GCN: 0,4M = 100k/year

Total: 42,54M = 10,75M/year.

Software sales:

DS: 89,4M = 22,5M/year
PS2: 44,8M = 11M/year
PSP: 14,2M = 3,25M/year
Wii: 13,9M = 7M/year
GBA: 7,7M = 1,9M/year
GCN: 5,2M = 1,3M/year
Ps3: 3,5M = 1,7M/year
X360: 2,2M = 733k/year

Total: 181M = 45M/year


Publishers:

Nintendo: 90,9M
Konami: 15,6M
Bandai: 14,6M
Square: 12,6M
Enix: 9,6M
Capcom: 8,9M
Namco: 7,9M
SEGA: 7,8M
Sony: 5,4M
Koei: 4M

Total: 177,3M

Sum up:

DS has sold more than all other combined in hardware AND software.
Nintendo as a publisher has sold more than half of the games.
The 10 biggest publishers have sold 177,3M/181M.
The overall attachment rate through the years is 4,25:1.

American totals.


Hardware sales:
DS: 20,5M = 5,1M/year
Ps2: 15,9M = 4M/year
GBA: 12,3M = 3,1M/year
PSP: 11,3M = 2,8M/year
X360: 10,3M = 3,4M/year
Wii: 8,3M = 4,2M/year
Ps3: 3,5M = 1,7M/year
XB: 3,0M = 0,75M/year
GCN: 2,8M = 0,7M/year

Total: 87,9M = 22M/year

Software:
PS2: 88,3M = 29,3M/year
DS: 75,7M = 25,2M/year
X360: 74,1M = 28M/year
PSP:43,4M = 14,5M/year
Wii:42,1M = 21,1M/year
Ps3: 16,7M = 8,4M/year
GCN: 8,8M = 2,9M/year
XB: 4,4M = 1,5M/year

Total: 353,5M


Developers: Yet to come.

 

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