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Nintendo is biggest Japanese publisher, says Famitsu

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According to GameFront, quoting figures taken from Famitsu, Nintendo was by far the biggest publisher in Japan last year, in case there was any doubt, selling over 23.5 million units of software. Square Enix and Bandai Namco came second and third respectively with around 7.5 million sales a piece. List below.

  1. Nintendo: 23,520,000
  2. Square Enix: 7,580,000
  3. Bandai Namco: 7,500,000
  4. Capcom: 5,560,000
  5. Konami: 4,910,000
  6. Sega: 2,930,000
  7. Pokemon: 2,870,000
  8. Sony: 2,230,000
  9. Koei: 1,940,000
  10. Banpresto: 1,790,000

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#1

Blerk
04/03/08, 9:48 am

How many of those 23 million games had Mario in them? :-D

#2

patlike
04/03/08, 9:50 am

All the ones that didn’t have Pokemon in them :)

#3

Chinster
04/03/08, 10:31 am

Mario plumbs Luigi’s pipe. It’s disgusting.

#4

scuz
04/03/08, 1:49 pm

NO WAY!.

jeez. this aint news.

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