famousringo on 19 November 2007
Looks more like stagnation than contraction of the console market to me. Here's a chart of Wii sales against the PS2:
http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii®1=Japan&cons2=PS2®2=Japan&cons3=X360®3=Japan&weeks=156
It's pretty much keeping pace. The video game market in Japan just seems to be saturated to the point where the only place for growth is in the handheld market. Other regions have all the growth potential, so Japan is only losing ground in a relative sense.
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