News : 2004 Japanese game market results

January 12, 2005, 04:19 AM

by iggy, via Enterbrain -
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Enterbrain has just published the results of the home videogame market in Japan for the year 2004.
Overall, the Japanese market was down 0.7% compared to last year, for a total of 427.9 billion yen.

Game publisher/developer results:
1st - Nintendo - 7.33 million games sold, 28 titles.
2nd - Square Enix - 6.41 million games sold, 10 titles.
3rd - Pokemon Company - 4.34 million games sold, 5 titles.
4th - Konami - 2.99 million games sold, 6 titles.
5th - Capcom - 2.20 million games sold, 7 titles.

Game hardware results
1st - PlayStation 2 - 2.75 million units.
2nd - Game Boy Advance SP - 2.37 million units.
3rd - Nintendo DS - (final numbers not available at the time of the report.)