M-C 2018
01. Nintendo - 9.971.257 <35,00%>
02. Capcom - 2.735.760 <9,60%>
03. Bandai Namco Games - 2.231.249 <7,83%>
04. Pokemon Co. - 1.996.035 <7,01%>
05. Sony Interactive Entertainment - 1.608.904 <5,65%>
06. Square Enix - 1.410.270 <4,95%>
07. Sega - 900.363 <3,16%>
08. Koei Tecmo - 849.747 <2,98%>
09. Konami - 738.612 <2,59%>
10. Microsoft Game Studios - 541.094 <1,90%>
11. Electronic Arts - 521.318 <1,83%>
12. Ubisoft - 487.701 <1,71%>
13. Level 5 - 458.876 <1,61%>
14. Atlus - 394.455 <1,38%>
15. Take-Two Interactive Japan - 347.951 <1,22%>
16. Spike Chunsoft - 330.352 <1,16%>
17. Marvelous - 320.936 <1,13%>
18. Nippon Columbia - 250.211 <0,88%>
19. Bethesda Softworks - 234.078 <0,82%>
20. Nihon Falcom - 186.604 <0,65%>
00. Other - 1.974.548 <6,93%>
00. Total Software Sales - 28.490.321 <100,00%>
M-C 2019
01. / 01. Nintendo - 7.903.662 <29,42%> (-20%YOY)
02. / 04. Pokemon Co. - 3.216.372 <11,97%> (+61%YOY)
03. / 03. Bandai Namco Games - 2.543.566 <9,47%> (+14%YOY)
04. / 06. Square Enix - 2.288.930 <8,52%> (+14%YOY)
05. / 02. Capcom - 1.576.212 <5,87%> (-42%YOY)
06. / 05. Sony Interactive Entertainment - 1.290.509 <4,80%> (-20%YOY)
07. / 07. Sega - 878.618 <3,27%> (-2%YOY)
08. / 09. Konami - 798.504 <2,97%> (+8%YOY)
09. / 08. Koei Tecmo - 628.410 <2,34%> (-26%YOY)
10. / 10. Microsoft Game Studios - 518.952 <1,93%> (-4%YOY)
11. / 11. Electronic Arts - 507.476 <1,89%> (-3%YOY)
12. / 14. Atlus - 470.285 <1,75%> (+19%YOY)
13. / 13. Level 5 - 433.404 <1,61%> (-6%YOY)
14. / 12. Ubisoft - 396.122 <1,47%> (-19%YOY)
15. / 17. Marvelous - 311.499 <1,16%> (-3%YOY)
16. / 00. From Software - 302.470 <1,13%>
17. / 15. Take-Two Interactive Japan - 274.347 <1,02%> (-21%YOY)
18. / 16. Spike Chunsoft - 219.447 <0,82%> (-34%YOY)
19. / 20. Nippon Columbia - 176.539 <0,66%> (-29%YOY)
20. / 00. Warner Entertainment Japan - 161.596 <0,60%>
00. Other - 1.964.040 <7,31%> (-0.5%YOY)
00. All Publishers - 26.860.960 <100,00%> (-5.71%YOY)
- 11.9M vs 11.1M from Nintendo & Pokemon Co that 800K difference is actually what made 2019 down compared to 2018
- Sony also saw a 20% drop in their 1st party published titles
- The most substancial drop by a third party was suffered by Capcom
- In the Top 10 the 3rd party companies who saw growth were Bandai, Square & Konami
- Atlus saw the biggest growth thanks to Persona 5 Royale
- Ubisoft and Take-Two also saw drops in their sales - Bethesda wasn't even among the Top 20 Publishers last year
- EA and Microsoft were able to stay pretty much flat
