Japanese Hardware Sales
Media Create has released the latest Japanese hardware sales data, for the week ending Jan. 23rd, 2005.
1) PlayStation 2 - 66,543 (YTD: 255,781) (Market Share: 35.58%)
2) Sony PSP - 56,274 (YTD: 183,028) (Market Share: 30.14%)
3) Nintendo DS - 44,608 (YTD: 206,696) (Market Share: 23.85%)
4) Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP - 13,317 (YTD: 102,457) (Market Share: 7.12%)
5) Nintendo GameCube - 5,359 (YTD: 32,537) (Market Share: 2.87%)
6) Microsoft Xbox - 498 (YTD: 2,183) (Market Share: 0.27%)
7) Nintendo Game Boy Advance - 332 (YTD: 2,639) (Market Share: 0.18%)
For the week Sony's PSP outsold the DS, despite the dual-screen handheld's strong market share overall. Sony's market share for the week was 65.72%. Nintendo's market share for the week was significantly less, at 34.02%. Luckily, for both Nintendo and Sony, their market share is far greater than that of Microsoft -- whose Xbox controls 0.27% of the Japanese videogame hardware market.
