Japan Half-Year Sales Show Sony Domination

Thanks to Polygon for posting the Japanese games industry's half-year console hardware and software stats on their site. They summarize: "Sales of Sony's PlayStation 2 console significantly outpaced all competitors... surprisingly, Square-Enix topped all software publishers by a large margin." As far as Japanese hardware sales go, the GameCube (8.3 percent) and especially Xbox (1.6 percent) are falling ever-further behind the Playstation 2 (58.5 percent.) Regarding software, Square Enix may not have expected Final Fantasy X-2 to sell almost 2 million copies, but it only boosted their already top-selling Japanese output. Nintendo's second place in software may be more due to their handheld output, not including (?) the separately-listed and top-selling Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire for GBA, rather than their GameCube titles (though some GC titles like Animal Crossing have been surprise hits.)

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Re:Are you really surprised about the X box?

[M3wThr33]

Psst. The XBox ain't doing so hot in Korea either. It's doing extremely pitiful. Less than 40,000 sold(two months ago) since release.

And what is Peter Moore's plan to improve the XBox in the East? Release more American games..
*sigh*