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Net Sales by Platform
Our worldwide net sales by platform for fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2004 are as follows (in thousands):
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, Increase/
Platform 2005 2004 (Decrease) % Change
Consoles
Sony PlayStation2 ........ $ 275,85036.5% $ 247,60338.6% $28,247 11.4%
MicrosoftXbox........... 80,623 10.7 71,132 11.1 9,49113.3%
Nintendo GameCube...... 73,157 9.7 61,356 9.6 11,801 19.2%
429,630 56.9 380,091 59.3 49,539 13.0%
Handheld
Nintendo Game Boy
Advance............... 204,348 27.0 162,109 25.3 42,239 26.1%
Nintendo Dual Screen ..... 3,110 0.4—— 3,110100.0%
Wireless................. 24,613 3.3 6,860 1.1 17,753 258.8%
232,071 30.7 168,969 26.4 63,102 37.3%
PC ........................ 86,667 11.5 74,934 11.7 11,733 15.7%
Other...................... 8,363 0.9 16,852 2.6 (8,489 ) (50.4)%
Net Sales................... $ 756,731 100.0% $ 640,846 100.0% $ 115,885 18.1%
Consoles
Net sales for console platforms increased by $49.5 million, or 13%, for fiscal 2005 compared to fiscal 2004.
Duringfiscal 2005 we released 30 console titles, compared to 44 console titles released during fiscal 2004.
Sony PlayStation 2 Net Sales (in thousands)
Year Ended
March 31,2005% of net sales
Year Ended
March 31,2004% of net sales % change
$275,850 36.5 % $ 2 47,603 38.6% 11.4%
Net sales of video games for PlayStation 2increased by $28.2 million for fiscal 2005 as compared to fiscal
2004. PlayStation 2 net sales in fiscal 2005 were primarily driven by:
•new releases of Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and WWE
SmackDown! Vs. Raw;
•sales of titles based on original properties Full Spectrum Warrior , MX v. ATV Unleashed, The
Punisher and Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams;
•catalog sales of WWE SmackDown! Here Comes The Pain, Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo, SpongeBob
SquarePants:Battle for Bikini Bottom, Tak and the Power of Juju and MX Unleashed.
PlayStation 2 net sales in fiscal 2004 were primarily driven by:
•sales of Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom andWWE
SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain; and
•sales of original titles MX Unleashed and Tak and the Power of Juju.
The increase in sales of games for PlayStation 2 in fiscal 2005 was primarily attributable to stronger sales of
our three key products targeted at the mass-market in fiscal 2005 as well as sales of The Punisher and our
catalog titles. These increases were partially offset by the release of fewer games in fiscal 2005; we released