Post by ~Mystic~ on Apr 11, 2006 9:29:37 GMT -5
From:ds.ign.com/articles/701/701005p1.html
Nintendo DS title biggest Japanese game for 2006.
by Anoop Gantayat
April 10, 2006 - Anyone who pays attention to the weekly Japanese game charts could've probably told you this, but Nintendo's Animal Crossing was the biggest game in Japan throughout the fiscal year 2005. Japanese game site Mainichi Interactive, passing along final figures for the year covering 3/28/2005 to 3/26/2006 from publisher and part-time retail tracker Enterbrain, reports that the DS game sold 2.34 million copies, placing it a few hundred thousand units over the second highest game, Final Fantasy XII. The Square Enix RPG sold 2.05 million units.
The DS dominated the top 10 software chart. The third biggest game of the year was Nintendo's DS brain training game, Nou wo Kitaeru Otona no DS Training at 1.85 million units. That title's sequel, Motto Nou wo Kitaeru Otona no DS Training, followed in fourth with 1.7 million. Mario Kart DS placed fifth at 1.21 million units.
Nintendo's portable was tops in the hardware scene as well. The DS sold 4.32 million units, destroying the PlayStation Portable, which took 2nd place at 2.07 million units. PS2 managed 1.77 million units, followed by Game Boy Advance SP (600,000), Game Boy Micro (460,000), the extremely sold-out DS Lite (380,000), GameCube (240,000) and Xbox 360 (120,000).
In all, 2005 saw eight games reach million seller status -- higher than usual for the Japanese market. Overall software unit sales increased by 7.9%, but due to budget releases, total revenues stood at 3.09 billion yen, a 0.8% increase over the previous year. The hardware market saw a total of 10.02 million units, an increase of 23.2% over last year. Overall revenues for hardware reached 1.635 trillion yen, 28.7% up from last year.
Enterbrain predicts that the DS will top the 10 million mark this year, as promised by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, and will go on to reach 14.5 million by the end of 2007.
Nintendo DS title biggest Japanese game for 2006.
by Anoop Gantayat
April 10, 2006 - Anyone who pays attention to the weekly Japanese game charts could've probably told you this, but Nintendo's Animal Crossing was the biggest game in Japan throughout the fiscal year 2005. Japanese game site Mainichi Interactive, passing along final figures for the year covering 3/28/2005 to 3/26/2006 from publisher and part-time retail tracker Enterbrain, reports that the DS game sold 2.34 million copies, placing it a few hundred thousand units over the second highest game, Final Fantasy XII. The Square Enix RPG sold 2.05 million units.
The DS dominated the top 10 software chart. The third biggest game of the year was Nintendo's DS brain training game, Nou wo Kitaeru Otona no DS Training at 1.85 million units. That title's sequel, Motto Nou wo Kitaeru Otona no DS Training, followed in fourth with 1.7 million. Mario Kart DS placed fifth at 1.21 million units.
Nintendo's portable was tops in the hardware scene as well. The DS sold 4.32 million units, destroying the PlayStation Portable, which took 2nd place at 2.07 million units. PS2 managed 1.77 million units, followed by Game Boy Advance SP (600,000), Game Boy Micro (460,000), the extremely sold-out DS Lite (380,000), GameCube (240,000) and Xbox 360 (120,000).
In all, 2005 saw eight games reach million seller status -- higher than usual for the Japanese market. Overall software unit sales increased by 7.9%, but due to budget releases, total revenues stood at 3.09 billion yen, a 0.8% increase over the previous year. The hardware market saw a total of 10.02 million units, an increase of 23.2% over last year. Overall revenues for hardware reached 1.635 trillion yen, 28.7% up from last year.
Enterbrain predicts that the DS will top the 10 million mark this year, as promised by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, and will go on to reach 14.5 million by the end of 2007.
