June 8, 2007 - Enterbrain (publisher of Famitsu) released its monthly sales data for May 2007 today, and the Nintendo fever that has struck Japan shows no signs of abating any time soon. Famitsu reported that the overall gaming market continued its forward momentum for the month, increasing more than 10% over the same period last year.

Hardware-wise the big winner was unsurprisingly the DS Lite, which topped 600,000 units sold for the month. These sales accounted for almost 56% of hardware sales for the month. This puts the life-to-date sales for the handheld at 17,152,000 units (this number includes the DS Phat). Meanwhile, Sony's PSP had a strong month as well, topping 120,000 units sold in May.

On the console side of things, the top seller was the Wii, which sold through more than 250,000 units. The Wii was followed by the PS2 at just over 53,000 and the PS3 with around 45,000 units. Rounding out the sales data was the Xbox 360 at 11,000 units and the GBA SP at a little over 2,000 units. According to this data, Nintendo platforms accounted for more than 78 percent of the total hardware sales for the month of May.

In software news, the newly released PS1 remake, Final Fantasy Tactics: Shishi Senso for the PSP, topped sales charts for May. Following shortly behind was another handheld Square Enix tactical RPG, Final Fantasy XII: Revanant Wings for the DS. After these two handheld games was Super Paper Mario for the Wii. Rounding out the rest of the top five were Wii Sports and Momotarou Dentetsu DS: Tokyo & Japan.

Here are the overall top 10 best-selling games in Japan for May 2007:

1. Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions - 241,904 (PSP) Square Enix
   
2. Final Fantasy XII: Revanant Wings - 180,260 (DS) Square Enix
   
3. Super Paper Mario - 156,642 (Wii) Nintendo
   
4. Wii Sports - 140,704 (Wii) Nintendo
   
5. Momotarou Dentetsu DS: Tokyo & Japan - 124,223 (DS) Hudson
   
6. Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree - 113,035 (Wii) Nintendo
   
7. New Super Mario Bros. - 112,486(DS) Nintendo
   
8. Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day - 103,610 (DS) Nintendo
   
9. Shining Wind - 101,138 (PS2) SEGA
   
10. Yoshi's Island DS - 97,331 (DS) Nintendo

I still can't get around the massive amount of market share Nintendo has in Japan. Total domination.

Yeah. I really believe the market has changed in Japan. Thus, Nintendo will dominate the market for the rest of this gen. With all those 'training' games, they sure are attracting a large crowd.

Cant wait for SMG and SSBB hopefuly out this year.

What I dont get is the DS??? I mean seriously are people over thre/here buying them just to say , i have 2??

dpmnymkrprez said: What I dont get is the DS??? I mean seriously are people over thre/here buying them just to say , i have 2??

lol

There is no doubt that some Japanese people have double-dipped due to the DS Lite release, but the DS hasn't even sold LTD the number of PS2s yet.

Well, from what I have seen on youtube, there are still people lining up to get DS's. And it isn't kids. All you see are older men and women in business suits line up. I would assume they are going to work afterwards...

The DS is very much supply constrained in Japan. People love them Treineng Games

Nintendo is dominating the Japanese market more than Sony ever did, but not anywhere close to completely. Even last month the best selling game was on the PSP, and that Monster Hunter 2 game is still this year's top seller.

If the still rather unlikely thing would happen and the suits high up in Sony pulled the plug on the gaming division, now that would be a monopoly. The top 50 would consist of Nintendo games, and up to five 360 titles (on a very good week of course) popping up in the low double digits every few weeks upon release.

That would be so insane that even I'm not sure if I want to see it happening.

I am not knocking the Ds, I owned a GB advance when it was popular, and havent got back in to the handheld arena, what is the big deal other than the touch screen, same with psp, I heard the load times are horrible>?

Nintendo is dominatin just like the old days... BTW i played wii sports for the 1st time yesterday and was hooked. people say its a fad but i dont know.. i was hooked..

Wow, Playstation Portable isn't doing too bad. Playstation 2 is in 4th place. Now if that isn't sad, then I don't know what is. How could a console, launched in the year 2000, outsell the Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and the other platformers on the chart? Wow... Just wow...