Japanese console market up 72.9% thanks to Switch

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RolStoppable said:

shoichi said:

IMO, its more likely the website that the OP linked from just phrased the title incorrectly. 

The Famitsu website source is talking about hardware sale numbers and not revenue numbers. 

2017年（53週）
ハード(hardware)：2023.7（昨年対比 (contrast compared to prior year) 172.9％）
ソフト(software)：1893.8（昨年対比 (contrast) 103.8％）
合計(total)：3917.5（昨年対比 (contrast) 130.8％）

2016年（52週）
ハード(hardware)：1170.5
ソフト(software)：1824.3
合計(total)：2994.8

The numbers don't look like unit sales, plus you can't tally up hardware units and software units for any meaningful total. The numbers have to be revenue to make sense.

But you are correct, the author of the article made a mistake. Hardware is up 72.9%, software is up 3.8% and the total is up 30.8%.

I'm just going by the article's numbers. Maybe they will correct it.