Japan: Nintendo edges Sony in tight 2010 sales race

DS and Wii top PSP and PS3, Pokemon beats Monster Hunter on software chart

 

 Nintendo defeated Sony in a close-fought hardware and software sales race in Japan last year, according to data released by Famitsu publisher Enterbrain.

 

DS was the lead hardware platform in 2010, beating PSP by 70,000 units, while Wii sales were 170,000 greater than PS3's, Andriasang reports.

Hardware sales Dec 28, 2009 - Dec 26, 2010 (lifetime sales)

DS: 2,963,709 (32,124,298)

PSP: 2,890,476 (16,276,931)

Wii: 1,728,293 (11,230,292)

PS3: 1,558,480 (5,949,887)

Xbox 360: 208,790 (1,406,663)

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Pokemon Black & White was the top selling game of the year, shifting just shy of five million copies following its September launch.

Second on the chart was Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, which managed to move around 3.5 million units despite not releasing until early December.

 Software program product sales as well as launch times
Pokemon Dark and White-colored (Pokemon, DS, 9/18/2010): four, 914, 813

Beast Seeker Transportable third (Capcom, SONY PSP, 12/1/2010): three, 480, 989

Brand new Extremely Mario Bros. (Nintendo, Nintendo wii, 12/3/2009): one, 599, 845 (4, 084, 995)

Nintendo wii Celebration (Nintendo, Nintendo wii, 7/8/2010): one, 539, 228

Monster Mission VI (Square Enix, DS, 1/28/2010): one, 297, 344

Monster Mission Creatures Joker two (Square Enix, DS, 4/28/2010): one, 276, 303

Buddy Selection (Nintendo, DS, 6/18/2009): one, 196, 148 (3, 508, 096)

Extremely Mario Universe two (Nintendo, Nintendo wii, 5/27/2010): nine hundred, 539

Inazuma 11 three Spark/Bomber (Level-5, DS, 7/1/2010): 890, 440

Nintendo wii Suit İn addition (Nintendo, Nintendo wii, 10/1/2009): 849, 664 (2, 148, 197)

Enterbrain stated the entire Japan video games marketplace shrunk through 9 % year-over-year because equipment product sales decreased eighteen. nine % this year in order to a hundred seventy five. fifty nine billion dollars yen (£1. 36b) as well as software program product sales dropped second . five % in order to 318. '08 billion dollars yen (£2. 47b).

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DSiWare Zelda: Four Swords is a GBA port

Original portable Four Swords coming to DSiWare, GameCube version hopes stumped

 Nintendo announced during its E3 press conference last week that it would be giving away Legend of Zelda: Four Swords for free via DSiWare later this year. But which version?

 

The platform holder has confirmed this week that gamers can look forward to the original GBA version of Four Swords, which released as a bonus feature on the Game Boy Advance port of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

Disappointed slightly? Avid fans may be, because that version was later followed by a far superior GameCube version, which expanded the four-player concept to a full-fat quest with some really excellent puzzles and dungeons.

Amazed? Avoid getting. It can make complete feeling which DSiWare might obtain the smaller sized smaller video game initially made for the portable anyhow, rather than out-and-out store system launch that could need considerable re-working to create suit as well as practical within the DS displays.

Nevertheless, weight loss grumble if it's totally free, correct? Search for this upon DSiWare (playable to both the Nintendo dsi as well as 3DS) within Sept.

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