Best case scenario in Japan could be if it isn't an unstoppable decline, but a stabilization to a level where every other generation of home consoles can be successful and the other is unimpressive. So 8th gen could do well, 9th could do like 7th and so on. It wouldn't be unprecedented in IT market, Windows versions follow this pattern not only in Japan, but worldwide. It sometimes happens to cars manufacturers too, although each product can behave this way for different reasons: for consoles, the huge game library a successful console gathers at the end of its life can be strong enough to make many users skip a generation, and in Japan population ageing can boost this effect (while worldwide growing markets up until now made up for and exceeded any ageing, allowing an overall growth), for Windows, the sloppy attitude of MS about releasing unready products worsen the effect of people wanting a stabilised platform for longer than the lifecycle MS would like to enforce, and for cars, safety rules, regulations and laws force manufacturers to go against their wish to implement programmed obsolescence, and high prices and cyclic economic and oil crises do the rest, making many people avoid replacing a product durable enough.
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