Famitsu Sales: Week 16,2025 (Apr 14 - Apr 20)

[Sephiran]

haxxiy said:

Sephiran said:

But using the perspective you are using. The console market is declining everywhere, given that current gen consoles will not sell near the amount the Wii, Xbox 360, DS, PSP and PS3 generation did. So yes one could say the Japanese console market is declining, just as it is declining on every country on earth by that same metric. That doesn't say anything specific regarding the Japanese console market though, like that user was trying to frame it towards.

I mean, the decline is significantly bigger in Japan than everywhere else, especially software sales, but part of that is to be expected for a country with declining demographics.

So it might be still proportional to other markets once that is taken into account. Maybe.

But its still weird to single out Japan as some kind of bad market for consoles, when its hard to find any market in the world that buys more consoles on a per capita basis. Imagine how much more consoles would be selling WW if say Europe bought consoles on the same level as Japan per capita.