Is console gaming really doing that badly in Japan?

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theprof00 said:
I don't understand your point.
Are you trying to say the the market didn't switch to handhelds?

Because it did. However, DS has been out a long time now, and it's moving back to a more balanced level, probably due to counter-current.

Handhelds plural would be very very wrong.

I said the market in Japan has one dominant console at a time, same thing happened with SNES vs Gen, PS2 vs GC vs GBA, the big difference is the handhelds always have just about if not more sales than home consoles, always has similar games, etc which means there isn't a big difference between the two like Americans make out there is, they've always been there, they've always sold well, there isn't a shift.  The point being this gen will be one of the most successful in Japan, because the newest moninating console is putting up PS1 software type sales, tracking higher than PS2 in hardware, but handhelds have always posted great numbers, it's basically like you can't act like "handhelds are now the popular thing" its just consoles are consoles there, PSP is not selling Wii levels of software is a prime example.