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Enterbrain’s 2011 report shows the Japanese domestic market generating revenues of ¥454,380 million over 12 months, a marked decline on 2010, with Mario Kart 7 the year’s best-selling release.

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Nintendo has sold over 4 million units in Japan, nearly a year after the handheld first launched in the country, Famitsu publisher Enterbrain announced over the Christmas break.

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Famitsu has reported publisher sales data for the first half of the 2012 fiscal year, and for the period of March 28 through September 25, 2011, Namco Bandai ousted former number one Nintendo as the top publisher in Japan. T

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Famitsu publisher Enterbrain’s reporting this morning that 3DS has finally hit 1 million units sold in Japan, nearly four months after it first released in the country.

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Enterbrain has released its annual industry report for Japan, and the analyst firm expects 3DS to be a top seller in the country this year despite its slow start at retail.

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Following a number of projects being delayed or cancelled in the aftermath of the recent Japanese earthquake, Enterbrain’s CEO Hirokazu Hamamura has estimated that financial cost to the country’s videogame industry is in the region of $89 million.

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Enterbrain has released its yearly sales report for the Japanese videogame market, and it finds the industry as a whole down 9 percent in 2010 year-over-year.
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Enterbrain, the parent company of Famitsu, has revealed that PlayStation 3 has sold 5 million units Lifetime-to-Date in Japan.

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Enterbrain said today that Nintendo’s hit the 10 million unit milestone for Wii in Japan.

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GfK-ChartTrack has released a report on the state of global gaming in 2009, and found that unit sales declined by 8 percent worldwide, totaling 379.3 million units.

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According to Famitsu, the PSPgo has sold over 28k since it on sale yesterday in Japan. The exact figures were 28,275 units.

Sunday was the last day in Famitsu’s parent company Enterbrain weekly tracking period, although as the site points, the DSi and PSP-3000 both launched in a two day period, and sold extremely well at that point.

Make of that as you will.

Thanks, Andriasang.

Enterbrain boss Hamamura Hirokazu has told the Japanese press that he expects December’s release of FFXIII to result in the sale of 500,000 PS3 consoles in Japan.

That’s serious shit, Ringo.

Hirokazu added that the recently announced PS3 price cut will also be a driving factor for sales figures that month.

If achieved, the figure would represent a 250 percent increase from December 2008.

FFXIII release for PS3 on December 17 in Japan, followed by PS3 and 360 releases in the west early next year.

Thanks, PS3Center.

Enterbrain’s confirmed that PS3 outsold Wii in Japan in March, the first time the Sony machine’s been ahead of the Nintendo console for 16 months.

PS3 sold 146,948 units in the five weeks up to March 29, compared with 99,335 units the Wii and 43,172 units of Xbox 360.

Yakuza 3‘s been pegged as the reason for the spike.

More on Reuters.

The games industry in the world’s top three markets saw an overall 11 percent rise in sales last year, according to a joint report from NPD, GfK Chart-Track and Enterbrain.

A brain-melting 409.9 million units were sold in the UK, US and Japan in the 12 months to January, compared to 367.7 million units in the previous year.

The increase in growth comes from both the States and Britain, with respective increases of 15 percent and 26 percent. Japan did not fare as well, experiencing a 13 percent decline in 2008, which can largely be attributed to a decline in portable software, followed by console software.

The UK experienced the largest aggregate growth as well as category growth, with console software experiencing a 38 percent gain, and portable software increasing 6 percent.

Growth in the United States saw console software growth of 22 percent and portable software growth of 2 percent.

A joint report from NPD, GfK Chart-Track and Enterbrain has just claimed that Mario Kart Wii was 2008′s biggest selling game across the US, the UK and Japan.

The Wii racer sold 8.94 million units last year, beating off Wii Fit with 8.31 million sales and an eye-watering effort from GTA IV. The Rockstar smash moved 7.29 million copies.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl came fourth with 6.32 million sales, and Treyarch will no doubt be thrilled with a fifth place for World at War and 5.89 million units sold, even without a Japanese release.

Press release after the break.

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DSi sold 535,379 units in its first month on sale in Japan, according to Enterbrain figures, only slightly less than DS’s 550,000 in its first four weeks.

DSi’s impressive launched has pushed the DS platform’s total sales to 24,239,590 units — a figure which includes DS, DS Lite and DSi.

Thanks, Kotaku.

Kotaku’s reporting that Wii’s hit the 7 million mark in Japan.

The target was reached in the period between December 2006 (launch) and November 23, according to Enterbrain.

Sales of the machine are slowing. Wii hit 5 million sales in January this year, then 6 million in May.

More through the link.

Enterbrain figures have shown this morning that Xbox 360 outsold PS3 in Japan in September.

Microsoft sold 53,547 units of the 360 in the four weeks to September 28, compared with 33,071 units of the PS3.

Wii sold more than both of them put together, obviously: the machine moved 109,548 units in the month.

Enterbrain’s published Japanese hardware and software sales figures for the first six month of the year, following news last night that the market has dropped back 21.3 percent in the period.

Thanks, Kotaku.

Hardware

DS (DS and DS Lite)
First half of the year: 1,314,919
Total units sold: 23,484,680

PSP
First half of the year: 1,583,731
Total units sold: 10,157,757

Wii
First half of the year: 1,105,174
Total units sold: 6,800,753

PS3
First half of the year: 352,457
Total units sold: 2,361,949

360
First half of the year: 138,740
Total units sold: 741,298

Software

Mario Kart Wii
First half of the year: 1,744,387
Total units sold: 1,744,387

Monster Hunter Portable 2ndG
First half of the year: 1,602,386
Total units sold: 2,425,651

Pokémon Platinum
First half of the year: 1,481,725
Total units sold: 1,481,725

Dragon Quest V
First half of the year: 1,152,229
Total units sold: 1,152,229

Wii Fit
First half of the year: 845,238
Total units sold: 2,607,431

Enterbrain’s reported Japanese hardware sales for July, and PSP’s still flying in the Far East with over 250,000 units sold. No Xbox 360 figures were released, unfortunately “not pretty” probably sums it up. Details below.

• PSP – 256,765 units
• DS – 217,639 units
• Wii – 171,851 units
• PS3 – 54,823 units