Japanese game industry sees first rise year-over-year in 2 years

Data comes from first half of 2012 (December 26 2011 through June 24 2012)...

- data points to year-over-year increase
- this is the first increase in two years
- combined hardware and software sales reached 193.4 billion yen
- this makes for an increase of 0.7% over the last six-month period
- hardware is down, software is up
- Hardware: Down 11.5%, from 79.81 billion yen to 70.73 billion yen
- Software: Up 9.4%, from 112.17 billion yen to 122.67 billion yen

Hardware:

Nintendo 3DS: 2,219,548 (lifetime sales in Japan: 6,355,287)
PlayStation 3: 695,465 (8,112,613)
PSP: 500,333 (18,737,441)
PlayStation Vita: 353,657 (756,451)
Nintendo Wii: 265,578 (12,433,321)
Xbox 360: 33,809 (1,554,547)
Nintendo DS: 20,239 (32,855,741)

Software:

Pokemon Black & White 2 (3DS): 1,618,621
One Piece Pirate Musou (PS3): 806,578
Dragon Quest Monsters Terry's Wonderland 3D (3DS): 743,967
Mario Kart 7 (3DS): 665,573 (lifetime sales in Japan: 1,747,964)
Monster Hunter 3G (3DS): 665,394 (1,474,716)

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