2012 Year on Year Sales and Market Share Update to August 18th - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 25 August 2012 / 8,236 Views
Here we see data representing the global sales through to consumers and change in sales performance of the three home consoles over comparable periods for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Also shown is the market share for each of the consoles over the same periods.
Year to Date Sales Comparison (Same Periods Covered)
Market Share (Same Periods Covered)
2009 – (Week beginning January 4 to August 22)
2010 – (Week beginning January 3 to August 21)
2011 – (Week beginning January 2 to August 20)
2012 – (Week beginning January 1 to August 18)
Total Sales and Market Share for Each Year
"Year to date" sales for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 sales are shown in series at the top of the table and then just below a comparison of 2012 versus 2010 and 2012 versus 2011 is displayed. This provides an easy-to-view summary of all the data.
Microsoft
Xbox 360 - Down Year-on-Year 29k, Year to Date -21.7%
Sony
PlayStation 3 – Down Year-on-Year 68k, Year to Date -13.0%
PlayStation Vita - n/a
Nintendo
Nintendo Wii - Down Year-on-Year 67k, Year to Date -48.1%
Nintendo 3DS - Sown Year-on-Year 79k, Year to Date 46.8%
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PSV sales are lackluster :-( I wonder when we will start to see some good Japanese content on it. PSP had quite a selection of JRPG's and Japanese developed action games.
It's because of the cheap Japanese publishers who are waiting too long to make the switch. It's the same reason most JRPGs have migrated to PSP and away from consoles, affordability. I've read an industry opinion and it really clears up where all the JRPGs went and why the genre has been seen as in decline. Until these Japanese publishers stop being cheap we won't see that much on the Vita, but I think that they might already be switching over but they have done it so late we won't see the games for a while. They've spent so long developing PS2 and PSP level games they might hit a few bumps in the road making the jump to Vita aswell. There are few JRPGs on current gen home consoles that experience is limited. Publishers have really brought the genre decline upon themselves.
Once the Japanese developers and publishers stop fearing change (which would bring about improvements in various Japanese driven genres, like RPGs) there won't be much in the way of saving them.
Honestly the problems the Japanese publishing arms are seeing is them being very risk adverse and it all stems from them being scared to take on the emerging juggernauts in North America and Europe.
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As sony's estimating to sell 10M of vitas by the end of the year, we sould have faith in the upcoming holiday titles !!
