Summary of domestic million-shipping titles

This is Haraoka from Beyond.

joined CESA (Computer Entertainment Association) in October ( https://beyondjapan.com/cesa ), and at that time I received the following book.

2017CESA Gaming White Paper

 

This book contains various statistical data on the game industry, and this time I would like to focus on one of them, ``Japan's all-time million-shipping titles.''

First of all, the TOP 10 of all-time rankings (as of 2016)

Top 10 million dollar titles of all time

Nintendo is overwhelming. For some reason, the Game Boy Pokemon series was compiled, and although it was treated as an exception, the cumulative total of 23 million units was by far the number one! When it comes to rankings per game, Super Mario Bros. is definitely number one. Second place goes to New Super Mario Bros.

Surprisingly, the third place went to Level Five's Yokai Watch 2! It's amazing that he has broken into 3rd place on the all-time list. After that, the Pokemon series and Animal Crossing series followed, giving you a brain-training experience, but I was a little surprised that the next thing other than Nintendo that made it into the rankings was Capcom's Monster Hunter 3 and Dragon Quest.

There are a total of 232 million-selling titles in Japan. I have summarized them by manufacturer, platform, and year.

Million title ranking by manufacturer

After all, Nintendo has an overwhelming number of titles and sales. As expected, 2nd place goes to Square Enix. The number of million titles is very high compared to other manufacturers. Third to fifth place goes to Sony, Bandai Namco, and Capcom, but these three manufacturers are quite close in terms of number of titles and number of sales. However, Capcom ranks second in terms of average number of titles, which means they have a lot of big hit titles. For some reason, Konami's titles weren't in the rankings, so I'm just referring to the wiki  Level-5 also ranks second in terms of average number of shots. This is largely due to the sales volume of Yokai Watch, but there are also two Inazuma Eleven copies included. The oldest title was released in 2007, so seven million-selling titles in 10 years is amazing.

By the way, I've never heard of BPS, but they are the makers of Tetris. Personally, I was nostalgic that Jaleco's Moero Professional Baseball was included.

Million title ranking by platform

The Famicom came in first in terms of million-selling titles by platform, so it must have had a lot of well-selling games. The 3DS is in second place, but it is in first place in terms of sales.

Game Boy ranked first in terms of average number of games, and surprisingly, Game Boy Advance came in second. Looking at PSP, 3DS, and DS in 3rd, 4th, and 6th place, it seems that portable machines tend to be more likely to be mega-hits. Pokemon seems to have a big influence as well.

Million title tally by age group

Looking at million titles by year, the number of titles was in the 1990s, and the average number of titles was in the 2000s. Are you saying that the last 20 years have been the heyday of the consumer era?

In the 2010s, the number of titles suddenly decreased, but the average number of titles sold per million titles was actually the highest. I think the structure is changing to one where big titles can be sold intensively.

2017 million title

There are currently three million-selling titles in 2017.

Dragon
Quest
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*See below Famitsu.com Sales Ranking TOP30
 4Gamer.net Weekly Sales Ranking Plus

The 3 million copies of Dragon Quest is amazing. It looks like Splatoon 2 will continue to grow. As for Switch software, his sales of 740,000 copies of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and 600,000 copies of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are slowly increasing, so sales may reach 1 million in the future. Also, Super Mario Odyssey will be released this weekend, so it looks like it's going to sell for a million as well.

summary

Judging from million-selling titles, Nintendo is still strong! is. Personally, I found it interesting that Level-5 ranked quite high in the rankings, and that he was more likely to release million-selling titles on portable machines. If I have a chance, I would like to compile other data.