European and North American 2009 Hardware and Software Units

From Famitsu's 2010 White Paper:

BlazBlue sells 350,000 in North America

I don't usually post shipments for individual titles, but will make an exception for the excellent "BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger", which is said by this week's MCV (pg 8) to have sold 350,000 units in North America.

In Japan the sell through is over 85K according to Famitsu, but as there was also an Asian release I'd guess it's shipped somewhere around 100K in the region, bringing total pre-PAL release shipments to somewhere around 450,000. The budget re-release comes out next week, so it has a chance to add a few more sales to that.

The PAL version releases March 19th in the UK, the same week as God of War III (PS3), and the week after Final Fantasy XIII (360, PS3), Samurai Showdown Sen (360), and Yakuza 3 (PS3). With it also launching 9 months after NA and Asia, and just 3 months before the already announced upgraded "BlazBlue: Continuum Shift" releases in Japan I don't think it's possible for UK publisher Zen United to be releasing it at a worse time. Still, they expect it to make the top 3 of the PS3 and Xbox 360 charts in the UK, so we'll see.

Wii breaks 2 million in Canada

VANCOUVER, BC, December 15, 2009- NPD reports that Nintendo has now sold over two million units of Nintendo’s Wii™ system in Canada. Wii is the first system of the current generation to reach this sales volume and now joins the Nintendo DS™ portable handheld system above the two million units sold mark (both stats are reflective of Canadian NPD data*).

Full Press Release

Japanese, North American, and Western European software and hardware unit sales 2008

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Whilst the chart only says United States when adding up Famitsu Japanese, GfK European, and NPD US hardware unit sales the totals come up a bit short of the totals posted above, however, once Canadian NPD sales are included the totals match almost perfectly once rounding errors are taken into account. Therefore I'm fairly confident that the above chart also includes Canada along with the US.

Comparison of individual region totals to Famitsu White Paper totals:



Deducting European and Japanese figures from Famitsu White Paper totals leaves us with more accurate North American hardware sales:



Doing the same with software sales gives the NPD software units by platform figures, which I haven't seen published before:

ESAC Release "Essential Facts About the Canadian Computer and Video Game Industry (2009)"

ESAC have released their annual report on the Canadian video game industry, unfortunately unlike previous years this year's contains no market data. Thus I have yet to see any market data for total software units or value in 2008. From a previous article it's known that the overall market for Software, hardware, and accessories was worth C$2.09b in 2008 with 3.1m units of hardware sold.

It seems that Canadian data is hard to come by these days, with nothing released since an overall market report for Q1 '09, and no hardware numbers released since 2008.

The report did however contain top 20 software charts for the year ending in July;