Is console gaming really doing that badly in Japan?

[MaxwellGT2000]

theprof00 said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

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.

...so you're saying that it is still a one-console dominant market (a handheld) but that it doesn't count as the market having moved to "handheldS" because it is a singular handheld?

What I'm seeing here as counter-evidence is that, comparitively, the top 2 handhelds are both doing better than the top 2 home consoles. So technically, moving to "handheldS" is proven by your own example. However, if I take your idea that the PSP doesn't really stand out as a good example of a handheld, the DS is still better selling than any other handheld and it matches the ps1, just about, which is evidence that the market has moved to "handheld_", rather than "handhelds" (not really).

Lastly, if your point really is that it's not (plural) handhelds, you have to ask yourself what you interpreted the word as; my point being that media might have been using the word "handhelds" as simply a grouping, rather than a 1-to-1 representation.

Like, I could ask someone, "do you like handhelds or consoles better". In this sentence, I am using the word handhelds as a category rather than one specific handheld. If there were only one handheld console, you could still say "the market is moving to handhelds". I think you are taking too strict an interpretation of the word "handhelds".

LOL I stopped reading at the highlight, WRONG.  PSP's only million sellers are Monster Hunter, Monster Hunter, and whats that? Another Monster Hunter, then only has nine games selling more than a half million, that hardly qualifies as co-dominance with DS, not by a long shot, actually read some of the data thrown into the OP...  *sigh*