Wyrdness on 25 May 2015
Simple answer, economy, the JPY became strong and gained against other currencies in the past few years as opposed to being weaker, Japan is an exporting country which means a weaker yen is key in business as overseas sales would bring in more money and gave the room for price cuts. The result was that less money was made from products sold overseas, this coupled with the massive decline of consoles in Japan made it hard to cut prices with out taking significant financial losses.
