Decline is relative to where it was, not to other nations. So if in 2013 you had Japanese market encapsulate 

DS: 32m
Wii:12m
PS3:9m
PSP:11m
360:1m

Does the current market match up? Of course it doesn't but as mentioned I think software sales is more interesting because its clear hardware has been consolidated and that doesn't necessarily mean loss of interest. Hardware won't take into account PC either which is adjacent to the console market. So again it's a genuine question to look at the overall state of the japanese market and not just Nintendo peaking

This is a ridiculous post because that same generation had similar declines in all of the markets. So why only show Japan declined since then?

Lol, this is bad faith conversation because I literally state the bolded "its clear hardware has been consolidated and that doesn't necessarily mean loss of interest"... I just think you're fighting in a corner verses having an actual conversation

Says the individual that only cared to respond to the posters that suggested another poster saying the Japanese market is dead/dying. We responded to that poster with a thriving/increasing Nintendo market. You then made a comparison showing the highest generation in history compared to now. You realize you appear to be defending the idea the poster was right about a dead/dying Japanese market? Since we are ofcourse talking about the console market, how are you not understanding that just because PS is declining doesn't mean the market is dying? Nintendo is increasing along with don't we have reports of the PC market growing?

Well are weekly Funeral Shibousu Sales then also death?

Fair enough, Maybe I jumbled some of my posts so my sentiment wasn't clear. I don't agree with that user, the very first thing I said was:

1. "The *Console* gaming market is certainly not dead but it has to be looked at as a holistic whole, not any individual platform or publisher....
In the digital age I'm not sure we ever got a clear picture with what is happening with Japanese software overall. I'm very curious to know whether its been stable, declining or increasing."

2. I had decline in my mind when I responded to you and you said "You can't sell more hardware in a declining market for one."

We agree it's not dead. 

And that can still equate to a market decline. Market declines often have reasons, they're not anomalies without explanation. As far as explanations go, that is also why I wrote

"Was it just that not enough developers were making titles for Japans preferred platform or has tastes shifted in such a way where the market is in dominated by only select few titles etc."

The qualitative analysis is honestly a lot to to get into but ultimately a discussion in itself. If Japanese taste has skewed in a way where they are loosing interesting in most gaming outside of Nintendo, or developers have skewed their games in a way where they are loosing japanese gamers, that is still a decline in interest. If only a select few third parties can break 1m, that reflects a decline from where we were. How easily that can be reversed (if it needs reversing), is an interesting question.

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.