Japan sales - Media Create, Famitsu, Dengeki: week 39 ( Sept 23 - Sept. 29 )

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Shortiloe said:
Well .. 30k. Yes, Zelda is not that good in Japan as in the West, but even Lego City did 26k in it's FW sales. But okay .. but that there isn't ANY HW-Boost is very sad .. hopefully the Wii Party U Bundles can do it in Japan. But I think the japanse market is a little bit changing to the western Style I have the feeling.

That is an interesting hypothesis, do you have any supporting evidence?

 

I see the Japanese market continually moving more towards Handheld and Core Mobile gaming while the western market is emphasizing new consoles and PC (while mobile is also big and getting bigger they are often derided as 'casual')

I see the Japanese market blowing up with games like Monster Hunter while the series remains quite niche in Western markets.

 

I've actually been quite shocked by the radically different evolution of the Japanese gamign market as opposed to the Western gaming market in the last 10-15 years or so.