Japanese Videogame Stats Illuminate, Confusticate

Thanks to Game Science for its article analyzing Japanese videogame hardware and software sales for the first half of 2004. Of particular interest are the hardware sales for consoles ("PlayStation 2 - 1,365,260... Nintendo Gamecube - 340,204... Xbox - 18,239"), million-selling games ("Pokemon Fire Red & Leaf Green - 2,136,737... Dragon Quest V - 1,572,497... Sengoku Musou - 1,002,312"), a rare Western game popular in Japan ("Grand Theft Auto Vice City - 367,302"), a list of the publishers with the most games in the Top 100 ("Nintendo - 28...Bandai - 9... Konami - 8"), and the note that "The [videogame] market has increased 7.7% on the same period last year", meaning previous depressed forecasts for the Japanese games industry might not be entirely correct.

Re:Grand Theft Auto

[chromaphobic]

cue obligatory "all your base" reference...

Re:Japan isn't the only market out there

[king-manic]

Two generations? Where are you getting that from? Two generations ago was the SNES.

Maybe he means chip fab generations? maybe fruit fly generations? in that case it's 36 generatiosn behind.