2012 Japan Sales Top 500 (Media Create)

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benao87 on 02 April 2013

Let me know if it has already been posted.

Here is the link, not going to post the whole thing.

http://geimin.net/da/db/2012_ne_mc/index.php

Market share of each model (Software)

Model	Total number of units sold	%	Number of games in Top 500
3DS	16,457,553	35.8	107
PS3	10,764,162	23.4	139
PSP	6,582,645	14.3	117
Wii	4,833,413	10.5	43
DS	4,447,503	9.7	37
Vita	1,688,710	3.7	36
WiiU	776,580	1.7	5
XB360	364,526	0.8	14
PS2	32,761	0.1	2
Total	45,947,853	100.0	500

Market share of each manufacturer (top 10) (Software)

Manufacturer	Total number of units sold	%	Number of games in Top 500
Nintendo	11,749,841	25.6	51
NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.	8,167,229	17.8	110
Capcom	4,038,017	8.8	36
Pokemon	3,960,173	8.6	12
Square Enix	3,657,276	8.0	33
KONAMI	2,627,366	5.7	43
SEGA	2,060,229	4.5	26
Level Five	1,582,743	3.4	20
Tecmo Koei Games	1,003,256	2.2	19
SCE	952,381	2.1	14
Other	6,149,342	13.3	136
Total	45,947,853	100.0	500

EDIT: Sorry, they forbid copying the information on sites that deal with game sales. I'll leave those sumaries, and the link is already included so you can check them by yourselves. (The time lost on editing -.-)

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tbone51 on 02 April 2013

What? 3DS 16mil+? Isn't that way off? way way off?

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benao87 on 02 April 2013

tbone51 said:
What? 3DS 16mil+? Isn't that way off? way way off?

Software sales.

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melbye on 02 April 2013

Nintendo is so doomed, they should start making games for other consoles now

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tbone51 on 02 April 2013

benao87 said:

tbone51 said:
What? 3DS 16mil+? Isn't that way off? way way off?

Software sales.

my bad, i read that wrong O.o , pretty good then

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NiKKoM on 02 April 2013

thank kami for seperating Pokemon from Nintendo.. otherwise those numbers would look so bad for the others..

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DieAppleDie on 02 April 2013

Namco-Bandai owns it all, 100+ games on the top500 is crazy.

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Kresnik on 02 April 2013

Thanks. The individual software breakdown is interesting.

Read my Vita reviews here

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forest-spirit on 02 April 2013

Wii U

Total software (titles in the top 500): 777k

New Super Mario Bros. U: 369k FW: 164k VGC: 374k

Nintendo Land: 209k FW: 72k VGC: 209k <--- Totally within margin of error

Monster Hunter 3 HD: 159k FW: 106k VGC: 162k

ZombiU: 23k FW: 13k VGC: 22k

Musuo Orochi 2 Hyper: 16k FW: 6k VGC: 9k

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Mad55 on 02 April 2013

Namco bandai is a monster publisher thats really impressive.

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