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| Nintendo Dominates Japan |
| Posted by Shading-scars on 10 Jun 2007 |
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Enterbrain released its monthly sales data for May on June 8th. As the
gaming market grew 10% from the same point last year, one company led
the growth. This company was Nintendo. This was accomplished through Nintendo's owning of about 75% of the hardware market in Japan.
The Nintendo DS sold over 600,000 units, or roughly 56% of the sales of hardware. The Nintendo Wii topped 250,000 units, bringing Nintendo to owning 78% of the hardware market.
The Top Selling Games include:
- 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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