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crho on 01 October 2008

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1218501_1124.html

Tracking Period: 2008/03/31 - 2008/09/28

 

Market Size Comparison (billion yen)

  Hardware Software Total
2007 First-Half 143.22 160.17 303.39
2008 First-Half 95.23 143.64 238.87
Year-on-Year 66.5% 89.7% 78.7%

Hardware Sales

Hardware Release First-Half Sales Year-on-Year Total Sales
NDS 2004/12/02 1,314,919 37.1% 23,484,680
PSP 2004/12/12 1,583,731 132.0% 10,157,757
Wii 2006/12/02 1,105,174 68.2% 6,800,753
PS3 2006/11/11 352,457 88.5% 2,361,949
360 2005/12/10 138,740 157.1% 741,298
PS2 2000/03/04 219,270 57.1% 21,445,691

Software Sales

Pos. Hardware Game Title Publisher Release First-Half Sales Total Sales
01. Wii Mario Kart Wii Nintendo 2008/04/10 1,744,387 1,744,387
02. PSP Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G Capcom 2008/03/27 1,602,386 2,425,651
03. NDS Pokemon Platinum Pokemon 2008/09/13 1,481,725 1,481,725
04. NDS Dragon Quest V Square Enix 2008/07/17 1,152,229 1,152,229
05. Wii Wii Fit Nintendo 2007/12/01 845,238 2,607,431
06. NDS Rhythm Heaven Nintendo 2008/07/31 804,493 804,493
07. PS3 Metal Gear Solid 4 Konami 2008/06/12 658,142 658,142
08. PSP Phantasy Star Portable Sega 2008/07/31 606,480 606,480
09. PS2 Warriors Orochi 2 Koei 2008/04/03 408,990 408,990
10. PS2 Super Robot Taisen Z Bandai Namco 2008/09/25 360,824 360,824


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celine on 01 October 2008

Interesting. Thanks.



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trestres on 01 October 2008

WTH? Where's Brawl?

Edit: NVM it's FY08 not calendar year.



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Chrizum on 01 October 2008

Looks like VGChartz undertracked Pokémon Platinum. Otherwise spot on.



TWRoO on 01 October 2008

Will there be any addition to the top 5 software list?



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TWRoO on 01 October 2008
Chrizum said:
Looks like VGChartz undertracked Pokémon Platinum. Otherwise spot on.

This will include the last week that VGC hasn't added yet.



BKK2 on 01 October 2008

Not the exactly the same period, but interesting to compare to UK H1 2008.

Japan Apr 08 - Sep 08:

Hardware: Y95.23b ($896m) -34%
Software: Y143.64b ($1.352b) -11%
Total: Y238.87b ($2.249b) -21%

UK Jan 08 - Jun 08

Hardware: £513m ($911m) +27%
Software: £738m ($1.310b) +43%
Total: £1.251b ($2.220b) +36%

It will be interesting to see which country comes out on top in 2008. The battle for second place is on!

Is there comparable data from Japan for Jan 08 - Jun 08?



Spankey on 01 October 2008

Am I reading this right?
The PSP outsold EVERYTHING hardware wise in Japan?

Wow...I'm actually quite shocked...I never realised that. Teaches me for not paying attention, i suppose



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thibje on 01 October 2008

The 360 sold 10k this week according to these sales. :p

741,298 - (687,751+840+28,681+14,000)= +-10,000



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kamil on 01 October 2008

@Chrizum:

Looks like VGChartz undertracked Pokémon Platinum. Otherwise spot on.


No, it didn't. This data includes week ending on September 28th, which vgchartz hasn't updated yet.