May Sales Archive

This is a funny thread...

let me explain this to a certain few cause I am a statistics expert.  I\'ll put this simply.

example, and I\'ll be nice...

30 million PS2s
8 million GCNs
6 million Xbs

that total number is 44 million consoles sold...

that means PS2 makes up 68% of consoles in the world, GCN 18%, XB 14%.

That means if you release a game on PS2, your sales will do about 82% better than if you release it on X-Box, therefore increasing the amount of third-parties wanting to develop games for that system, therefore increasing the amount of games that system recieves, therefore attracting more buyers, therefore increasing consoles sold, therefore PS2 users are getting more out of their system...

that\'s

sales statistics 101 for ya...

but pretty much I hope that clears things up for you Quddus.   Number of consoles sold is directly poportional to it\'s value and well in this case how well it matches up against other consoles.

New Media Create Numbers
13th - 19th in japan
S C E PlayStation 2 53,500
Nintendo Game Boy advance 26,600
Nintendo A game cube 6,000
S C E Playstation 4,600
Nintendo Game Boy color 2,200
Microsoft Xbox 1,100




This is the lowest sales performance for the xbox since launch

good lord, the xbox is a failure in japan

i could bottle my urine and sell more units

*breaking news*

The Xbox price drop in japan has allowed it to surpass the PSX and GCN!! Its amazing.. but sadly, its not

just click the links to view the charts.

Big Chart
Close Up Chart

(Sorry, you have to right click and copy it into another browser.. the host just changed the way it worked)

Wow, what a large spike for a price cut to 24,800 (199.744 USD)

I think the japaneese just gave up and started ignoring it.

Nintendo is dropping its price begining of june, which explains its sudden slack.. I wonder how high it will go?


exact sales
SCE PlayStation 2 65,200 1,705,300
Nintendo GameBoy Advance 30,900 1,187,700
Microsoft Xbox 7,400 193,600
SCE Playstation 4,800 114,800
Nintendo GameCube 2,500 563,200
Nintendo GameBoy Color 1,200 50,400
BANDAI Wonderswan Color 1,100 83,600
BANDAI Wonderswan 500 3,900
Sega Dreamcast 400 16,000
Nintendo N64 160 4,400
Nintendo GameBoy 40 3,800

EDIT:

The xbox was 34800 yen or 280.495USD...

WOW, that\'s pretty breathtaking news.. :eek: But what the hell happened to GCN sales? No games or what?

WOW, that\'s pretty breathtaking news..  But what the hell happened to GCN sales? No games or what?

Simple, they annouced a price drop in early june

140 N64 units sold.. wow.

This system was just about dead 6 years ago.. (right after Mario 64 was finished by the average gamer)

Originally posted by mm
good lord, the xbox is a failure in japan

i could bottle my urine and sell more units

or Get Japanese business men to buy your used underwear, trust me its ture..i have a firend who went out there and she was offered hard Yen to part with her undies.

Originally posted by ooseven


or Get Japanese business men to buy your used underwear, trust me its ture..i have a firend who went out there and she was offered hard Yen to part with her undies.

Or sell the whole set. The bottles could be used to "refresh" the smell.

Just for like some discussion:

I know Japan just has less ppl, but the kids and even adults are much more hardcore gamers than USA and Europe.  I mean a lot of USA kids just buy the console to have, play one or two games and thats it.  In Japan, it is a culture and past time.

But I realized this when noticing that Super SNES/Famicon and PSX had about 25% more games in Japan, some of which were cool games.  USA had no exclusive games whatsoever.

So basically MS are morons for saying that Japan market is not important.  While I do agree that they can get a solid presence in USA due to the ridiculous gullible and stupidity factor of the average American, they can never establish a real presence with the hardcore gamers, which are the money makers for game developers.

It\'s just seems like Xbox will never a real gaming machine but some stupid box that sits in ppl\'s home.

Originally posted by ChronicBlunt
I know Japan just has less ppl, but the kids and even adults are much more hardcore gamers than USA and Europe.  I mean a lot of USA kids just buy the console to have, play one or two games and thats it.  In Japan, it is a culture and past time.

I would like to know where you got your thoughts from...the videogame industry pulls in about 20 billion a year, I would think it hard to say Japan is responsible for the bulk of it.  While I do believe Japan is very important, I think U.S. pulls in at a very close and strong second.

And considering that the average age of an Xbox or PS2 owner is 16-24 would show that it\'s not just kids who are buying these consoles or supporting the market.

The videogame industry is growing every year as more and more people pick it up as a pass-time.  And you also must realize that there are alot more developers in the U.S. today then there were last generation...

But I realized this when noticing that Super SNES/Famicon and PSX had about 25% more games in Japan, some of which were cool games.  USA had no exclusive games whatsoever.

Most of those are like Hello Kitty, Roommania, Tokyo Bus, Horse Racing and the such.  Games that woud bomb in the U.S.  

So basically MS are morons for saying that Japan market is not important.

I don\'t remember them saying this...

While I do agree that they can get a solid presence in USA due to the ridiculous gullible and stupidity factor of the average American,

And all the while I thought I just wanted to play games...I guess it was the stupidity factor in me:rolleyes:

they can never establish a real presence with the hardcore gamers, which are the money makers for game developers.

Actually, I would think that the casual gamers far outweigh the hardcore gamers...define hardcore.

It\'s just seems like Xbox will never a real gaming machine but some stupid box that sits in ppl\'s home.

Define real gaming machine and tell me how PS2 has already met this criteria...


I hope you register, I was getting kinda bored:D

I\'m almost positive that N64 has sold 30 million by now.

Originally posted by Bozco
I\'m almost positive that N64 has sold 30 million by now.

N64 has sold over 40million I think..