Japan Sales week 4, January 21 - 27 , 2019

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zorg1000 said:

Faelco said:

The thing is, Japanese people spend very little time at home compared to the West. So it's not useful for them to spend a lot of money in a home console and a nice TV with it (TVs seem very expensive here btw), when they have F2P games on their phone, which is even more useful for all those who spend 2 hours on a train everyday.

 

Japanese society isn't a good fit for home consoles, and they developed a "better" alternative. So yes, the home console market became significantly smaller. 

So would you say it's less of a "we dont like home consoles" and more of a "we dont have time for home consoles" situation?

Yup, busy work and school schedules (they only have Sunday's off for school in fact) along with public transportation like bus's and trains being a thriving industry in Japan, is how mobile and handhelds dominate over there. Hell apartments are pretty small in Japan to the point it might tough to set a entertainment center with a big TV and a home console.