Iwata: Thoughts on Japanese market

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Demotruk said:

bigjon said:
I just think that Home Consoles are not "cool" in japan right now, right now in the West thanks to the Wii and the ground work the PSX and PS2 laid gaming is cool. I have Japanese friends, and they tell me that really gaming is for nerds and kids... kinda sounds like what the gaming market was mainly in the pre- Playstation era.

 

That's strange...

Far more people game in Japan than in the West. Consider the console per capita ratio in Japan, almost no other country rivals it (though, some do on specific consoles).

 

Err ?

USA is 3 times the size of Japan in population.

Console sales in USA are 10 times the sales in Japan...