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published:
21-Apr-08
territories:
Japan - Asia-Pacific
categories:
Market data analysis, General market development
Japanese Nintendo DS games sales hit home run
Respected Japanese games market researcher Media Create has announced that the DS has sold a total of 100 million pieces of software in its home territory of Japan.
It's a milestone that's taken three years and five months since the handheld's launch to achieve, surpassing the PlayStation 2, which took four years and three months to reach such a target. Of the 922 titles released since launch, 21 have sold over a million units. Of the top ten bestsellers, six are updates of established Nintendo franchises, while the remaining four belong to Nintendo's budding stable of training titles (Brain Training 1&2, English Training DS and Big Brain Academy).
Aside from persistently vigorous hardware sales, and scope for breaking new ground in terms of software genres, the DS has been a viable target for budget publishing since launch. Screen Digest expects Japanese DS software sales to equal, rather than eclipse, those of 2007, resulting in a total of around 130 million units by the end of this year.
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Analyst, market intelligence & notices
Quarterly Retail Games Data Bulletin is released
published:
20-Nov-07
territories:
Japan - Europe, North America, Regional Totals, Western Europe, World, PAL
categories:
Market data analysis, Market data/forecast revision, New market data/forecast
Review of 2007 hardware sales
published:
29-Oct-07
territories:
Japan - Europe, North America, World, PAL
categories:
Market data analysis, Market data/forecast revision, New market data/forecast
PS3 price reduction no surprise; impact already built i...
published:
10-Oct-07
territories:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK - Asia-Pacific, Benelux, Europe, Africa and Middle East, Nordic Region, Western Europe, PAL
categories:
Market data analysis, General market development
The Wii Phenomenon
published:
26-Feb-07
territories:
Japan, USA
categories:
Market data analysis, Market data/forecast revision, New market data/forecast
Reports
(1) 1-1 showing
256 bit Console Global Games Publishing Trends and Anal...
Since before the launch of Xbox 360 in late 2005, Screen Digest has tracked multiple data points regarding every single packaged retail title confirmed for 256 bit home console platforms. The final Quarter of 2007 is the ideal time to release our first Console Games Publishing Bulletin given the level of activity in the publishing community and the emergence of trends which could prove highly influential in the shaping of this hardware generation.
published:
10-Oct-07
territories:
Australia, Spain, Denmark, Poland, Canada, France, Japan, Korea. Rep [S], UK, USA - World, Europe, North America
Ed Barton
Articles
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Current-gen console releases
Sega, having sidestepped the Christmas market, is leading the industry with the most releases for the current-generation games consoles - eight of them based on new intellectual property - in the first quarter of the new year. Nintendo's Wii is catching up with Microsoft's Xbox 360 in terms of number of releases, although the aggressive support for Wii over Christmas has not persisted into the new year.
published:
22-Feb-08
territories:
Canada, Japan, UK, USA - Asia-Pacific, Europe, European Union, North America, Regional Totals, Western Europe, World, PAL
Ed Barton
Handheld console market matures
A clear leader is emerging in the market battle between the latest generation of portable games devices, the Nintendo DS and Sony's PSP. We examine the three key territories-Japan, the US and the PAL television countries-and forecast that over the next four years the DS will outsell the PSP in both hardware and, by corrolation, software, especially in the Western territories.
published:
12-Jun-07
territories:
Japan, USA - PAL, North America
categories:
Market data analysis, Market data/forecast revision, New market data/forecast, New product/service, Strategy change, Technical development, General market development
Ed Barton
Games formats in transition
Overall market performance has been better than expected but next-generation sales volumes have yet to make an adequate impression.
published:
19-Feb-07
territories:
USA, Japan - Asia-Pacific, North America
Ed Barton
Next-generation console games
Our analysis of the first stages of marketing of the latest generation of games consoles-Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii-shows the relative strength of the software release slates, based on exclusivity, existing franchises and the creation of new intellectual property (IP). Each of the developers has a different strategy and each has its own advantages, although Microsoft-which launched its format first-retains an advantage in terms of titles on the market.
published:
25-Jan-07
territories:
USA, Japan - World
Ed Barton
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