Japanese games of 2003 & hardware sales

Top 30 Games of 2003

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• Final Fantasy X-2 (PS2, Square Enix) - 1,901,126
• Pocket Monster Ruby / Sapphire (GBA, Nintendo) - 1,704,458
• Shin Sangoku Musou 3 (PS2, Koei) - 1,160,466
• World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 (PS2, Konami) - 1,061,977
• Everybody\'s Golf 4 (PS2, Sony) - 876,252
• Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (GC, Nintendo) - 567,849
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart (GBA, Square Enix) - 566,201
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Megurial Sora (PS2, Bandai) - 561,567
• Dragon Ball Z: Budokai (PS2, Bandai) - 538,734
• Rockman EXE 4 Tournament Red Sun / Blue Moon (GBA, Capcom) - 545,414
• Mobile Suit Gundam Z: AEUG Vs Titan (PS2, Bandai) - 535,115
• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (PS2, Square Enix) - 520,899
• Made in Wario (GBA, Nintendo) - 515,459
• The 2nd Super Robot Taisen Alpha (PS2, Banpresto) - 499,430
• Let\'s Make a J. League Pro Soccer Club 3 (PS2, Sega) - 498,214
• Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 10 (PS2, Konami) - 491,237
• Gran Turismo 4 Prologue (PS2, Sony) - 491,181
• Pokemon Colosseum (GC, Pokemon) - 485,686
• Mario Party 5 (GC, Nintendo) - 481,053
• Shin Sangoku Musou 3 Moushouden (PS2, Koei) - 466,785
• Devil May Cry 2 (PS2, Capcom) - 442,059
• Taikou no Tetsujin 3rd Generation (PS2, Namco) - 437,918
• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (GBA, Square Enix) - 420,540
• Super Mario Advance 4 (GBA, Nintendo) - 411,546
• Taikou no Tetsujin (PS2, Namco) - 405,610
• Taikou no Tetsujin: New Songs of Spring Festival (PS2, Namco) - 336,259
• Biohazard Outbreak (PS2, Capcom) - 334,462
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (GC, Square Enix) - 330,389
• Kirby\'s Air Ride (GC, Nintendo) - 314,921
• Legend of Stafi 2 (GBA, Nintendo) - 298,967

Consoles

Playstation 2
Christmas Week - 173,435
Year of 2003 - 2,979,035

Gamecube
Christmas Week - 106,070
Year of 2003 - 978,770

Xbox
Christmas Week - 1559
Year of 2003 - 99,959

Gameboy Advance (SP)
Christmas Week - 168,231
Year of 2003 - 3,499,231

I haven\'t even heard about 2/3 of those games.

[frodo voice] Oh Sam [/frodo voice]

Dont worry ...most of them still have their Japanese names buddy.

Wining Eleven = Pro Evolution Soccer
Shin Sangoku Musou 3 = Dynasty Warriors

[Living-In-Clip]

Is that by sales? Because if DMC2 sold enough to even get on the list, well, life sucks/

Wow. Nintendo didn\'t do half bad.

-Eik

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Is that by sales? Because if DMC2 sold enough to even get on the list, well, life sucks/

I was just going to say that.


The X biting it really hard i see.

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Is that by sales? Because if DMC2 sold enough to even get on the list, well, life sucks/

LIC we both bought that one. As did a ton of other people even after the reviewers were talking about how horrible it was. Devil May Cry 1 sold 2 to everyone.

Didn\'t see this one but

17.Gran Turismo 4 Prologue (PS2, Sony) - 491,181

:eek: That much for whats basiclly a demo disk

Mind you i shouldn\'t be shocked, most people bought ZOE just for the MGS2 demo.

Wow!  I like how well FFX-2 has done.  That probably means we can look forward to more sequels!  

YAY!!!!
Crosses fingers for a FFIX sequel....puhleeeeease!!!!!

hey ginko help me out here... my sarcasm detector is broke.

meh?

FFX-2 my PS2 GOTY 2003...no kidding.  

And just for the record I would cream myself if they announced a FFIX sequel...

or VIII sequel

or am i taking that a BIT to far ?

VIII was [little girl\'s voice]borrrring[/little girl\'s voice].  

They would need to change a few things, like drop the draw system.  On the other hand it was directed quite well, the FMV\'s were beautifully done.  Thinks of the communications tower, train, and dance scenes.

Taken from penny-arcade.

Sony sells over 100,000 PSX units
» Company grabs 35% market share in just over three months
News | Tuesday, January 6, 2004 | Rahul Choudhury [European Correspondent]

Sony announced this week that holiday sales of its newest piece of entertainment hardware, the all-in-one PSX, had been healthy despite a high price.

"We sold 100,000 PSXs in the first week," said Ken Kutaragi, Sony\'s Executive Deputy President who is also responsible for making the Playstation brand into the powerhouse that it is today, "It sells for almost 100,000 yen ($941) and it still sold out. There are no products out there that can say that."

The PSX, which launched on December 13 in Japan, is the company\'s first play at the market for a moderately priced comprehensive media player. It can play and write DVDs, along with playing videogames using the same microprocessor as the PS2 console.

Kutaragi stated that Sony had managed to overtake Matsushita in this area, its main competitor in the electronics market. Sony\'s market share for DVD recorders with hard disk drives climbed from around 1 percent to 35 percent in December, slightly beating Matsushita\'s share.

Matsushita responded by blaming the introduction of new products, which includes the PSX, for the large increase. With such a near-equal share of the market, the company still expects to "come out on top" later on this year

If its true then the scaled down PSX in one week managed to out sell the annual X box by 41 units.

:eek:

Originally posted by Ginko
meh?

FFX-2 my PS2 GOTY 2003...no kidding.  

And just for the record I would cream myself if they announced a FFIX sequel...

Wow.

This coming from Mr. I used to swing on Xbox\'s nuts.  j/k. But seriously FFX-2? Not saying its a horrible game but GOTY is a stretch.