Japanese games sales for 2009: Nintendo wins
“If the DS succeeds, we will rise to heaven, but if it fails we will sink to hell.” – Hiroshi Yamauchi in 2004
Sony and Microsoft, the now indisputably defeated enemies of Juggernaut Nintendo, no longer have a choice: do the honourable thing and commit seppuku. Famitsu has released their annual list of the top 100 selling games in Japan, and the results are staggering. Look upon the top ten selling games, and witness Nintendo’s completed ascendancy.
1. [NDS] Dragon Quest IX (Square Enix) – 4,100,968
2. [NDS] Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver (Pokemon) – 3,382,597
3. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) – 2,485,150
4. [NDS] Tomodachi Collection (Nintendo) – 2,311,948
5. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII (Square Enix) – 1,698,256
6. [WII] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) – 1,542,806
7. [WII] Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) – 1,298,533
8. [WII] Monster Hunter 3 (Capcom) – 968,033
9. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 2 Fire/Blizzard (Level 5) – 943,615
10. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G PSP The Best (Capcom) – 911,497 / 1,110,614
Just look at that Nintendomination, a puny two non-Nintendo system games appearing in the top ten. It is only out of disgruntled disrespect for its new master that Sony does not go 3rd party. It is only out of incompetent management that Microsoft does not withdraw from the industry.
Plenty more stats after the jump.
Famitsu’s data includes hardware numbers:
NDS: 4,025,313 [29,160,589]
PSP: 2,307,971 [13,386,455]
WII: 1,975,178 [9,501,999]
PS3: 1,727,041 [4,391,407]
360: 331,706 [1,197,873]
PS2: 255,960 [21,803,762]
Software sales by company (interesting to note here: Nintendo and Pokemon are separated, add them together and Nintendo’s victory looks all the more lopsided):
1. Nintendo: 14,400,000
2. Square Enix: 8,590,000
3. Bandai Namco: 7,590,000
4. Pokemon: 4,730,000
5. Konami: 4,660,000
The number of titles per system appearing in the top 100 also reveals the miserable state of the shamed Sony and Microsoft corporations:
NDS – 41
WII – 20
PSP – 19
PS3 – 15
PS2 – 3
360 – 2
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