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Japan monthly charts: December 2005
- Thread starter cvxfreak
- Start date
Here's the charts kinda grouped by the key system battles. xbox 360 makes its entry capturing 3% of market in its very first month. Resi 4 did well, with the 2 versions at a combined total of over 600K. Just like Tales of Symphonia before it, an example of multiplatform development leading to success for Japublishers. The big story though was the DS taking the top spot and leapfrogging the ps2 for total number of software units sold in a month. That doesnt happen very often.
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1 X360 38,756 new Namco Ridge Racer 6
2 X360 20,760 new Microsoft Perfect Dark Zero
3 X360 12,818 new EA Need for Speed outsold Ridge Racer 6 in the US
1 GC 199,145 329,633 Nintendo Mario Party 7
2 GC 145,437 233,107 Tomy Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! 4
3 GC 54,765 new Bandai SD Gundam Gashapon Wars
4 GC 50,684 new Sega BLEACH GC
5 GC 21,999 232,196 Pokemon Pokemon XD: Yami no Senpuu Dark Lugia
6 GC 16,604 211,661 Nintendo Super Mario Stadium: Miracle Baseball
7 GC 14,047 new Konami Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 12 Ketteiban
1 GBA 338,178 517,484 Pokemon Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Aka no Kyuujoutai
2 GBA 241,834 432,119 Capcom Rockman EXE 6 Faltzer / Graygar
3 GBA 134,148 new Square Enix Final Fantasy IV Advance
4 GBA 69,985 new Nintendo Super Donkey Kong 3
5 GBA 46,661 1,034,264 Nintendo Famicom Mini: Super Mario Brothers
6 GBA 35,537 1,654,858 Pokemon Pokemon Emerald
7 GBA 33,649 new Banpresto Summon Night Craft Sword
8 GBA 31,743 629,902 Sega Mushiking
9 GBA 24,122 2,580,513 Pokemon Pokemon Fire Red / Leaf Green
10 GBA 14,707 89,862 Konami Yugioh Duel Monsters GX Mezase Duel King
11 GBA 14,625 5,302,676 Pokemon Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire
12 GBA 14,407 18,930 Banpresto Konjiki no Gashbell Dream Tag Tournament
13 GBA 13,924 113,225 Nintendo Mario Tennis Advance
14 GBA 13,616 new Konami Animal Yokochou
15 GBA 13,079 89,008 Nintendo Dr. Mario & Panel de Pon
1 PSP 233,783 new Capcom Monster Hunter Portable
2 PSP 50,684 new Koei Geki Sengoku Musou
3 PSP 46,514 185,199 Sega Nouryoku Trainer Portable
4 PSP 35,932 53,333 SCE Minna no Golf Portable The Best
5 PSP 28,632 new Namco Boku no Watashi no Katamari
6 PSP 22,795 46,845 SCE Talkman
7 PSP 22,234 new Konami Metal Gear Acid 2
8 PSP 19,789 new SCE Piposaru Academia 2
9 PSP 16,594 202,176 Konami World Soccer Winning Eleven 9
10 PSP 12,985 new Namco Tales of Eternia The Best
11 PSP 12,418 new Konami Eyeshield 21
12 PSP 12,410 17,040 Namco Ridge Racers The Best
13 PSP 12,038 new Capcom Irregular Hunter X
1 PS2 737,652 new Square Enix Mikami Hurts II
2 PS2 440,225 new Namco Tales of the Abyss
3 PS2 370,590 new Capcom biohazard 4
4 PS2 299,310 new SCE Rogue Galaxy
5 PS2 232,650 new Sega Ryuu ga Gotoku
6 PS2 194,372 new Bandai Naruto: Narutimate Hero 3
7 PS2 149,550 new Hudson Momotarou Dentetsu 15
8 PS2 99,276 187,773 SCE Ratchet and Clank 4th
9 PS2 73,337 new Konami Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence
10 PS2 64,354 new Konami Jikkyou PowerPro Baseball 12 Flop edition
11 PS2 571,777 new Sega Jissen Pachislot: Aladdin 2 Evolution
12 PS2 53,483 new Namco Taiko no Tatsujin Wai Wai Happy! 6th
13 PS2 48,726 new Tecmo Gallop Racer 8 Live Horse Racing
14 PS2 41,139 417,191 Bandai Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED
15 PS2 33,876 new Tecmo Monster Farm 5 Circus Caravan
16 PS2 31,738 104,795 Konami JLeague Winning Eleven 9
17 PS2 31,007 new Airem Software Pachi Para 12
18 PS2 30,268 84,408 Genki Ikusagami
19 PS2 30,075 80,709 Square Enix Kingdom Hearts Final Mix Ultimate Hits
23 PS2 26,171 126,402 Namco Soul Calibur III
1 DS 834,332 1,169,757 Nintendo Owned you no Doubt Mori
2 DS 669,575 new Nintendo Mario Kart DS
3 DS 368,436 770,391 Bandai Tamagotchi no Puchi Puchi Omisetchi
4 DS 326,463 521,380 Pokemon Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Ao no Kyuujoutai
5 DS 215,731 1,011,341 Nintendo Brain Training
6 DS 191,907 875,371 Nintendo Soft Brain Puzzles
7 DS 178,164 965,665 Nintendo Nintendogs Shiba / Dach / Chihuahua
8 DS 176,218 new Square Enix Slime Morimori Dragon Quest II
9 DS 165,599 new Bandai Dragon Ball Z
10 DS 143,093 301,809 Nintendo Dare Demo Asobi Taizen
11 DS 94,158 new Sega Mushiking Greatest Champion DS
12 DS 83,998 215,038 Pokemon Pokemon Trozei
13 DS 60,111 142,684 Nintendo Super Princess Peach
14 DS 55,597 new Konami Power Pro Kun Pocket 8
15 DS 44,223 464,076 Nintendo Jump Superstars
16 DS 39,354 855,565 Nintendo Sawaru Made in Wario
17 DS 30,048 new Bandai Futami no Pretty
18 DS 30,845 814,108 Nintendo Super Mario 64 DS
19 DS 30,619 new Marvelous Harvest Moon: Corobockle Station for Girls
20 DS 25,723 new Nintendo Tottoko Hamtarou DS
21 DS 19,679 276,418 Nintendo Touch! Kirby
22 DS 16,545 new Konami Croquet (at least I outsold Advance Wars DS)
23 DS 13,051 new Tomy Zoids Saga DS ~legend of arcadia~JoshuaJSlone
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Ehh, can we really be sure about that, though? Yes from the top 100 DS outsold PSP by ~400K. But the 100th ranked game was still nearly 12K. Considering that PS2 has hundreds more games from 101 on than DS does, it could be tops.heidern said:
Actually, Eyeshield 21 is listed as a PSP game, but it is really a PS2 game as far as I can tell. Therefore, the actual monthly Top 100 totals are: (I'm assuming that Rock-Man's addition was correct)AniHawk said:
GC = 502,681
PSP = 501,972
So Sony can't even be proud of that. But hey - it still topped the X360, so all is not lost. Also, if anyone cares, the DS total should be slightly higher (Futari Danzen DS is really 34,408).
Using Rock-Man's addition, the monthly totals should be:
DS 3,817,829 (40.7%)
PS2 3,426,925 (36.6%)
GBA 1,052,516 (11.2%)
GC 502,681 (5.4%)
PSP 501,972 (5.4%)
X360 72,334 (0.8%)
And an interesting examination of tie-ratios for the month (based on Top 100 sales only):
DS = 2.64
PSP = 1.18
This shows the real problem that Sony faces in Japan right now with the PSP. The PSP has had a similarly low (and even lower) tie ratio for many months now. For whatever reason (and I don't know the answer), nobody buys any games to use with their PSPs. The PSP had a pretty solid year in terms of hardware (more than 2 million units for the year), but the software sales have just been abysmal. And the Tie Ratio for the PSP is actually lower now than it was back in late spring. And I'm not sure how Sony goes about fixing that problem because the PSP has had a fairly steady release list of known brands, but sales have been few and far between.
Ganondorf>Link
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DS outsold everything else combined by 491,226. :O
Thanks for the numbers CVX.
Thanks for the numbers CVX.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Merlin said:
It should be by now. Sold around 50 to 60 thousand the last week of December.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Are 3rd parties worried about competing with nintendo's top sellers? I could see some worried their games are going to be over shadowed, but others wanting to be on the same system as games selling so much (plus selling so many systems). Then again, it might force them to put more effort into DS games.
What's considered the lower limit for a "good selling game" in Japan? At least enough that developers are glad they put it out. I know it varies by development costs, but I just mean in general.
What's considered the lower limit for a "good selling game" in Japan? At least enough that developers are glad they put it out. I know it varies by development costs, but I just mean in general.
You got total SW LTD's for the DS and PSP so we could work out a more accurate tie ratio for Japan?cvxfreak said:No problem Farore.
Here are system software totals for everything, not just the top 100, rounded off:
PS2: 3.9M
GC: 572K
Xbox: 4,617
Xbox360: 89K
GBA: 1.133M
PSP: 681K
DS: 4.15M
Other: 2K
Total: 10.4M
EDIT: And holy shit I thought the games outside the top 100 would push PS2 over the DS.
Fuzzy said:
12/04 - 12/05:
PSP software: 4.75M
DS software: 12.97M
PSP hardware: 2.57
DS hardware: 5.1M
Tie Ratios:
PSP: 1.85
DS: 2.54
This doesn't include the end of December spike, which had to have changed the DS dramatically since Motto Brain Training, MKDS, ACWW and a whole bunch of others sold really well.