Japanese tracker releases 2007 sales summary

PALGN News | What were last year's top sellers in Japan?

One of the two Japanese sales trackers has released a short summary of how 2007 went down in Japan, sales wise. The data, collected by Enterbrain and published by Japanese games magazine Famitsu, is not their full release (a top 500 sellers list will be published eventually), but a quick summary of the top five selling games and consoles, as well as a dollar value of each category.

Probably the most surprising thing to come out of 2007 in Japan was a mini-resurgence of PlayStation Portable, led by Monster Hunter Portable 2 which has become by far the PSP's highest selling game in Japan--selling almost 1.5 million when no other PSP game has even passed a million in the country, and only three are above 500k. The PSP also benefited from the PSP Slim launch, which has significantly boosted hardware sales since its release.

Otherwise, Japan looks a lot like the rest of the world, with Nintendo DS and Wii on top.

Japan in 2007
Total market value 2007: 687.66 billion Yen (AU$7.01 billion) - Up 9.9% on 2006
Total hardware sales: 327.41bn Yen (AU$3.34 billion) - Up 25% on 2006
Total software sales: 360.25 bn Yen (AU$3.67bn) - Down 1% on 2006

Hardware top five
Nintendo DS: 7,143,702 (Lifetime: 21,105,472)
Wii: 3,629,361 (Lifetime: 4,618,479)
PlayStation Portable: 3,022,659 (Lifetime: 7,535,313)
PlayStation 3: 1,206,347 (Lifetime sales: 1,673,063)
Xbox 360: 257,841 (Lifetime sales: 548,308)

Software top twenty
1. (WII) Wii Sports (Nintendo): 1,911,520
2. (PSP) Monster Hunter Portable 2 (Capcom): 1,489,898
3. (WII) Wii Play (Nintendo): 1,487,484
4. (DS) Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (Nintendo): 1,256,516
5. (DS) Mario Party DS (Nintendo): 1,232,644
6. (DS) New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo): 1,176,939
7. (DS) Pokemon Diamond/Pearl (Pokemon): 1,094,389
8. (WII) Mario Party 8 (Nintendo): 1,053,934
9. (DS) Dragon Quest IV (Square Enix): 1,052,827
10. (DS)Brain Age 2 (Nintendo): 1,033,933
11. (DS) Mario Kart DS (Nintendo): 910,771
12. (DS) Yoshi Island DS (Nintendo): 896,814
13. (DS) Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo): 858,501
14. (DS) The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo): 839,395
15. (DS) Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker Square Enix 12/28/2006 825,065
16. (WII) Wii Fit (Nintendo):818,166
17. (DS) Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo): 765,758
18. (PSP) Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Nintendo): 753,939
19. (WII) Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo): 747,684
20. (DS) Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day (Nintendo): 729,313

Software by platform in the top 100
DS - 59
PS2 - 18
Wii - 14
PSP - 5
PS3 - 4
360 - 0

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9 Comments

legend166

4 years ago

Nintendo wins.

Itachi

4 years ago

ohhh dureeeee

no wonder why there wining damn Mario Galaxy is amazing imo. The deserve this imo

TheAnswer

4 years ago

Well of course Nintendo was going to win but the surprising title was Monster Hunter Portable 2, cant believe it sold so many copies.

IISpacebreakII

4 years ago

The best thing here though is signs of the PS2 finally fading...

Itachi

4 years ago

Why the hell is that the best thing????? The ps2 did so well is because it brought out so many good games. I am not taking anything from the wii just saying

EDIT: on a side note i have ordered monster hunter 1 and 2 just to see why the japanese love it so.

thebigm

4 years ago

Itachi wrote

It's a good thing, because the PS2 has hit it's lifespan, support has started to lower for it as games are being made for the "current" generation of consoles.

Agreed with TheAnswer and MHP2 being up in there, seems that that is the only game that is being bought on the PSP over there.

Itachi

4 years ago

ahhh i understand hehe never really thought about it like that. Yeah i guess your right. i am really looking forward to see why everyone went crazy for monster hunter 2

TheAnswer

4 years ago

Itachi wrote

ahhh i understand hehe never really thought about it like that. Yeah i guess your right. i am really looking forward to see why everyone went crazy for monster hunter 2

Maybe it's because it's like the Sony fanboys version of Pokemon?