Game Industry Revenues Fell 8 Percent in 2011
Mario Kart and Mario Land 3D were last year's best sellers.
The Japanese domestic game market saw an 8% drop in total revenues in 2011, Famitsu reported today citing stats from Enterbrain. While hardware was up for the year due to the release of new platforms like PlayStation Vita and 3DS, software saw a 14% drop due to a lack of multi million sellers like Pokemon Black & White and Monster Hunter Portable 3rd.
Enterbrain's 2011 sales data covers December 27, 2010 through December 25, 2011. Overall domestic revenues reached 454,380 million yen, an 8% drop from the prior year. The hardware market was up 2.4% to 179,740 million yen. The software market fell 13.7% to 274,640 million yen.
3DS was the top selling platform for the year, topping the four million mark in its first year of sales. PSP came in second and PS3 third.
Here's the full hardware chart, with total life to date sales in parentheses.
- Nintendo 3DS: 4,135,739
- PSP: 1,960,177 (18,237,108)
- PlayStation 3: 1,467,261 (7,417,148)
- Wii: 937,451 (12,167,743)
- Nintendo DS: 711,204 (32,835,502)
- PlayStation Vita: 402,794
- Xbox 360: 114,075 (1,520,738)
In software, Nintendo's year-end Mario double punch topped the full year chart. Monster Hunter Portable 3rd and Monster Hunter 3G both made it into the top five.
Here's the full software top 10, with total life to date sales in parentheses.
- 01. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 12/1/2011): 1,082,391
- 02. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 11/3/2011): 1,042,511
- 03. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (Capcom, 12/1/2010): 1,021,457 (4,502,446)
- 04. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G (Capcom, 12/10/2011): 809,322
- 05. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Square Enix, 12/15/2011): 697,146
- 06. [PSP] Final Fantasy Type-0 (Square Enix, 10/27/2011): 696,428
- 07. [WII] Minna no Rhythm Tengoku (Nintendo, 7/21/2011): 633,429
- 08. [PS3] Tales of Xillia (Namco Bandai, 9/8/2011): 632,151
- 09. [WII] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, 6/25/2009): 612,807 (2,732,655)
- 10. [WII] Wii Party (Nintendo, 7/8/2010): 584,545 (2,123,773)
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