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Japan's hardware sales for May increase: Nintendo 78%, Sony 21%, Microsoft 1%

Posted Jun 10, 2007 at 12:32PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Magazines, News Tags: Enterbrain, GBA, Japan, PS2, Sony, Square Enix

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Famitsu publisher Enterbrain just released their report on hardware sales in Japan for the month of May. What's the overall verdict, you ask? Well, if you compare the total hardware sales of May 2007 to that of last year's, there's actually a 10% increase. That means more people in Japan are buying handhelds, consoles, or both. One could then assume that there are more gamers this year then there have been last year. Now, on with the specifics; it's pie chart time!

The DS Lite still reigns supreme in Japan, munching off around 55.8% of the market. Their half of the pie consists of 600,000 units sold, thus totalling overall DS unit sales (both Lite and Phat) to a whopping 17,152,000 units sold in Japan. The Wii claims the second spot, with 22.7% of total hardware sales.

Around one fifth of the pie is occupied by Sony. Their PSP, PS2, and PS3 are holding steady at 11.1%, 4.8%, and 4.1% respectively. Following Nintendo, Sony's handheld and console units have a firm grasp of the next top three spots. Rounding up the rest of the hardware sales are the Xbox 360 at 1% and the GBA at .2%.

On the software side of sales though, Sony is king. The PSP's Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War is sitting at the top with 241,901 copies sold during the month of May. Here are the top 10 games sold in Japan:

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

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Most Japanese are Windows nuts and run XP. I'm not really sure the specifics of what exactly they like to do with their PCs, but they are usually more casual users so obviously they don't use Linux. And I guess they do things Mac isn't big on

here come the people telling me all Japanese men use their computers to look at little girls in skirts

# actually — Guest 2007-06-10 16:17

add up those top 10 software #s. Nintendo is on top there too!

# Yeah... — Guest 2007-06-10 18:06

I was going to say the same thing, 8 of the 10 titles are Nintendo, the other two are Sony...

# LOL — Guest 2007-06-10 19:03

Let's all buy the PSP-phone!

Then we have a max standby time of ~5 hours!

ROFL

# Goddamn Jews — Guest 2007-06-10 21:23

We have to stop the filthy jews before they totally ruin Sony!

# ... — Guest 2007-06-10 21:27

Yet Xbox 360's software sales are higher than that of PS3. Sounds like the Japanese also really hate the PS3, other than those after a Blu-Ray player

# ! — Guest 2007-06-10 21:43

all Japanese men use their computers to look at little girls in skirts.

# Asian Jews? — Guest 2007-06-11 00:52

Asians can be Jews?

# 10% increase in Hardware Sales — Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 2007-06-11 01:03

Very suprising, considering that the DS Lite launched in March 2006.

# Bob — Guest 2007-06-11 03:09

I guess there are some jews in asia, even though there is a funny joke about a jew in china asking if there are chinese jews.

The waiter replies no, but if he likes he can serve him orange juice or apple juice. But no chinese juice *g*

# "On the software side of sales though, Sony is king"?? — Guest 2007-06-11 04:44

I think that the total top 10 sales of Nintendo (1,028,291 units) is much bigger than that of Sony (343,042 units). I think that Nintendo has been the King of top 10 sales since long ago, only replaced by Sony a pair of weeks.

# ... — Dodo 2007-06-11 10:08

FF Tactics: Lion War top sales! Woohoo!

# Filthy Jews? — Guest 2007-06-11 11:28

Jews aren't filthy. In fact, they have more money than everyone you know, combined. They may own you, and you probably don't even know it. And they didn't ruin Sony... the Betamax II AKA PS3 killed Sony.

# Both of you suck — Guest 2007-06-11 17:30

Both of you can go ***** yourself. How about you both go and suck Nintendos *****

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