Is the Japanese gaming industry in crisis? (BBC article)

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Japan has a shrinking population while at the same time other markets have opened/grown in gaming;.

China had in 2002 an gaming market of 200 million $ this year it will be around 4,5 Billion $ and that is only for the online gaming market, South America, East Europe, Russia, India are all growing market so it is not strange to see the Japanese market going down to 10% of the world;