Japan’s Smartphone Games Market 50% of Japan's total games market in 2013

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Euphoria14 on 28 March 2014

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Impossible to ignore anymore, all I can hope is traditional console and handheld gaming has enough market share to keep some games coming.

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t3mporary_126 on 28 March 2014

Let's hope this doesn't discourage Nintendo and Sony from making a handheld gaming device for next generation and that this news help them re-evaluate the cost and and market for their next generation games.

And is smartphone gaming doing what PC gaming couldn't do? Cut marketshare from the dedicated game device market? Or is the 3DS and Vita underwhelming for the general handheld video game market?

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sales2099 on 28 March 2014

This is fantastic news.

Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles.

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Release more eroge games and that percentage will go up to 99.99999999% in a couple of seconds!

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JAPAN = MOBILE

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Mystro-Sama on 28 March 2014

I hope hope now that Vita sales are on par with 3ds in Japan they can join forces against smartphones.

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ktay95 said:

LiquorandGunFun said:
wow they have low standards.

or some really awesome smart phone games =P

highly unlikely.

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ktay95 said:

LiquorandGunFun said:
wow they have low standards.

or some really awesome smart phone games =P

Not really. All of the most popular ones get put over here anyway. I still begrudingly play them away from home, but I wouldn't consider any of them really awesome.

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