Hardware Sales in Japan, 2000 to 2013

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NiKKoM said:

Japan’s console market in the first half of 2014:

Hardware sales: 70.63 billion yen
Software sales: 101.63 billion yen
Total: 172.26 billion yen (US$1.685 billion)

Japan’s console market in the first half of 2013:

Hardware sales: 66.39 billion yen
Software sales: 105.63 billion yen
Total: 172.02 billion yen (US$1.683 billion)

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201407/03056514.html

Second half of the year should make or break it... but hardware wise we are already up

It kinda makes sense for hardware to be up since we had the PS4 launch for the first half of 2014 whereas 2013 didn't have anything new (hardware wise) launching.