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Fernando on 03 April 2008

That the 2007 fiscal year was a good year for Nintendo is almost without question, so the results of the sales numbers for hardware platforms and the top five-selling software titles in Japan for the 12 months to March 30, 2008 comes as no surprise.

The best-selling platform was the Nintendo DS, selling over 6.3 million units, followed by the Nintendo Wii on 3.74 million units, according to Famitsu.

The PlayStation Portable was next in line with 3.4 million units sold, while the PlaytStation 3 shifted 1.2 million and the Xbox 360 just over 235,000.

Meanwhile on the software side, the top five games were all for Nintendo platforms, with Wii Fit top, selling 1.76 million copies, Mario Party DS in second with 1.66 million copies and Wii Sports in third selling 1.62 million units.

Super Smash Bros Brawl was fourth, selling 1.55 million copies, with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon selling 1.35 million copies.

In a comparison of the Japanese market from fiscal 2006 to fiscal 2007, combined hardware and software sales showed a 3.8 per cent increase to JPY 677 billion (USD 6.59 billion / EUR 4.23 billion).

Hardware sales ranking (note that the PlayStation 2 was not included):

  • 1. Nintendo DS: 6,343,547
  • 2. Nintendo Wii: 3,741,946
  • 3. PlayStation Portable: 3,427,971
  • 4. PlayStation 3: 1,197,418
  • 5. Xbox 360: 235,318

Software sales ranking:

  • 1. Wii Fit: 1,762,193
  • 2. Mario Party DS: 1,659,315
  • 3. Wii Sports: 1,616,377
  • 4. Super Smash Bros Brawl: 1,554,852
  • 5. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: 1,354,447

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/nintendo-tops-fiscal-2007-japan-numbers



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NintendoMan on 03 April 2008

There is no limit to Nintendo's success. The DS has sold very well. although I have feeling it may struggle to hit 5 million this year.



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StarcraftManiac on 03 April 2008

Agreed... 2005/2006 in Japan for the DS was like an average of +100k a week!... Now it's still selling great, although it got stuck @ a lvl of ~50-60k a week! Still kicking ass though!

I guess with the holidays DS, Golden Week, Dragon Quest 9 etc... DS will have an average of 85k a week for Japan... Which makes for a total of aproximately 4.4 million. Wii will be around the 4 million too btw! 



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dsoverpsp on 03 April 2008

I'm not surprised at all



Sqrl on 03 April 2008
NintendoMan said:
There is no limit to Nintendo's success. The DS has sold very well. although I have feeling it may struggle to hit 5 million this year.

 Sure there is, its somewhere just shy of 6.8 billion units sold for each of their products.
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Bitmap Frogs on 03 April 2008

Wait until DQ9 and it's complimentary DS DQ edition land on the shops. 250k DS will be sold the day DQ9 goes for sale.





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