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matt247 on 02 October 2008

http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/10/02/enterbrain-japanese-games-market-is-shrinking/



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Xen on 02 October 2008

Bleh. Not like it's anything new.



grimygunz on 02 October 2008

no surprising



Squilliam on 02 October 2008

I blame the Wii. If the Wii is aparantly responsible for the salvation of the games industry it can also be held responsible for its death.



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outlawauron on 02 October 2008

@ Squillam

LOL! That's pretty good. And you'd think we all the world growing, why is Japan going away?



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BKK2 on 02 October 2008
Squilliam said:
I blame the Wii. If the Wii is aparantly responsible for the salvation of the games industry it can also be held responsible for its death.

Actually Wii is partially to blame, but it's mainly due to DS. DS is massively down in the 6 months covered compared to the same period last year. Wii is significantly down too. PSP is up quite a bit, PS3 slightly down, and 360 is up quite a bit, but it's sales were so low that it's pretty insignificant to the market as a whole.

So shrinking DS & Wii sales result in the overall market shrinking too.

 



smallflyingtaco on 02 October 2008

Short article, but perhaps it is related to this: http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ja/Age_distribution



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hunter_alien on 02 October 2008

IMO lets wait what will happen when the DSi will be released, and the PSP 3000 to ;) Those 2 could generate lots of sales ;)



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