Market Share: Top Three Video Game Consoles in Japan
Domestic sales of home and portable video game units in Japan jumped 45.1% last year to 14.54 million units. That's more than one in ten people in Japan bought a new game to play with ….most of them from Nintendo.
Handheld devices made up 77.3% of the market.
Nintendo's smash hit Nintendo DS portable made up 60.9% of the overall market.
In just one month, Nintendo's Wii home console captured 6.8% of the market.
The top three home video game makers:
| Home Video Game Consoles | |||
| Rank | Company | Share | Point Change |
| 1 | Nintendo | 71.3 | 15.8 |
| 2 | SCE | 27.2 | -16.3 |
| 3 | Microsoft | 1.4 | 0.4 |
| Domestic sales: 14.54 million units (up 45.1%) Sources: Enterbrain Inc.; market shares estimated by Nikkei |
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Which one, two or all three do you have?
