so ps3 even lower than Famitsu and MC ? wow

ASCII Report 5

Autumn Retail Market Size Transition (July - August)
- Sales revenue in 2007 totaled 113.4 billion yen; the highest in eight years.
(hardware = 50.7 billion yen, software = 62.7 billion yen)
- Sales revenue in 2008 totaled 93 billion yen. A year-on-year decline of 18% or 20.4 billion yen.
(hardware = 36.1 billion yen, software =  56.9 billion yen)

ASCII Report 6

Fiscal Year 2008 Game Market Size (April - August)
- Sales revenue in 2007 totaled 269.7 billion yen.
(hardware = 124.6 billion yen, software = 145.1 billion yen)
- Sales revenue in 2008 totaled 225.4 billion yen. A year-on-year decline of 16.4% or 44.3 billion yen.
(hardware = 89.4 billion yen, software =  136.0 billion yen)

ASCII Report 7

Pokemon Series (GBA&DS) Sales Comparison
- Pokemon Emerald sold 710,233 on launch week. Total sales are 1,867,298.
- Pokemon Platinum sold 948,168 on launch week.

ASCII Report 8

Pokemon Platinum Sales Projection
- Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire sold 5.05 million. Pokemon Emerald sold 1.87 million (37% of R&S).
- Pokemon Diamond & Pearl sold 5.81 million as of Sep. 20th. Pokemon Platinum could reach 2.15 million (37% of D&P). 

ASCII Report 9

Fiscal Year 2008 First-Half Hardware Sales Comparison (April - September)
- Hardware sales in 2007 totaled 7.07 million.
- Hardware sales in 2008 totaled 4.82 million. A year-on-year decline of 31.8% or 2.25 million.

Fiscal Year 2008 First-Half Software Sales Comparison (April - September)
- Software sales in 2007 totaled 35.18 million.
- Software sales in 2008 totaled 31.28 million. A year-on-year decline of 11.1% or 3.9 million.

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Fiscal Year 2007/2008 First-Half Game Publisher Ranking (April - September)
- Top 10 publishers in 2007 are Nintendo, Square Enix, Bandai Namco Games, Capcom, Konami, Pokemon, SCE, Koei, Sega and Hudson. Others account for 13.2% of sales.
- Top 10 publishers in 2008 are Nintendo, Bandai Namco Games, Konami, Capcom, Pokemon, Square Enix, Sega, Koei, SCE and Atlus. Others account for 12.2% of sales.

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Fiscal Year 2008 First-Half DS Software TOP5 (April - September)
- Top 5 DS Games in 2008 are Pokemon Platinum, Dragon Quest V, Rhythm Tengoku Gold, Daigasso! Band Brothers DX and Meccha! Taiko no Tatsujin DS.
- Rank #3, #4 and #5 are music games.

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PSP Weekly Sales Transition (From latter half of 2007)
- Notable weeks outside of holiday season. PSP-2000 Launch (2007.09.20), MHP 2nd G Launch (2008.03.27) and PSP-3000 Launch (2008.10.16).
- Upcoming PSP software for 2008. MHP 2nd G PSP the Best (10.30), Gundam vs. Gundam (11.20) and Dissidia Final Fantasy (12.18).

18 36 X360テイルズ オブ ヴェスペリア RPG 7,800 08/08/07 6,813 151,124

Tales of vesperia on 9/11/08

Very nice find. I always visit dengekionline.com to see the upcoming releases.

One thing to add, I've seen people say that Sky Crawlers (New IP based on a 2 month old movie) and Daikaijju Battle were bombs on the Wii. Then they could say the same about the Gundam game for PS2, Gundam is one of the most popular things in Japan. It sold only 40k on a userbase that's as big as 4 times the one of the Wii. Where are those people now saying that Banda Namco games for the Wii were bombs? Explain the poor sales of the Gundam game to me then.