curl-6 on 09 May 2025
The Japanese gaming market isn't niche or dying, the focus has just shifted to mobile phones, Switch, and PC while PS home consoles are diminishing.
The PC gaming sector there for instance tripled in size from 2019 to 2023: https://www.serkantoto.com/2024/10/03/japan-pc-gaming-market-size/
Switch of course has become the highest selling game system in Japanese history.
It's Sony and some of the third parties that centre around them that are doing poorly, the former due to an unattractive price and a lack of exclusive games catering to Japanese tastes, and the latter as a result of being tied to a declining platform.
Last edited by curl-6 - on 09 May 2025
