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

Posted Jun 10, 2007 at 5:30PM 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!

Enterbrain's May hardware sales in Japan - Image 1


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:
  1. Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions - 241,904 (PSP) Square Enix
  2. Final Fantasy XII: Revenant 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


 
 
 

Comments [refresh]

by Adiuvo - 2007-06-10 12:34
» lol

One percent, man the Japanese really hate MS...

by yea - 2007-06-10 12:38
» yea

yea i wonder if they even have win xp, probably all their comps are linux/mac

by teh not so 1337 g@m3r - 2007-06-10 12:47
» .

They are all XP.

by mohaas05 - 2007-06-10 13:01
» ...

but all their xp's are pirated

by darkgeekrocker - 2007-06-10 13:40
» i am surprised

that qj hasnt made a artical about the psp phone at mobilementalism .com and at cache.kotaku.com



looks like it is the real deal to...anyway the pie chart is great but i think the wii will be returned when their owner finds out they need more space than whats provided in their apartments. lol

by Kan - 2007-06-10 14:52
» Actually

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

by me - 2007-06-10 15:17
» actually

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

by me #2 - 2007-06-10 17:06
» Yeah...

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

by FloW3184 - 2007-06-10 18:03
» LOL

Let's all buy the PSP-phone!

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

ROFL

by American patriot - 2007-06-10 20:23
» Goddamn Jews

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

by Timmy A - 2007-06-10 20:27
» ...

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

by ! - 2007-06-10 20:43
» !

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

by Baffled - 2007-06-10 23:52
» Asian Jews?

Asians can be Jews?

by Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - 2007-06-11 00:03
» 10% increase in Hardware Sales

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

by Sepp - 2007-06-11 02:09
» Bob

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*

by Andd - 2007-06-11 03:44
» "On the software side of sales though, Sony is king"??

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.

by Mister Common Sense - 2007-06-11 09:02
» .

It seems like Japan is the only region where the decision to include blu ray is actually helping the sales.



When the blu ray players are cheap, what will happen to the sales?

by Dodo - 2007-06-11 09:08
» ...

FF Tactics: Lion War top sales! Woohoo!

by lol - 2007-06-11 10:28
» Filthy Jews?

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.

by I am the Rumor - 2007-06-11 16:30
» Both of you suck

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

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