Japanese videogame sales fall sharply

Is this supposed to shock people. its called market saturation (japan being geographically small it doesn't take long to saturate, not only that but Two of the major System Makers, are in japan.)

Or maybe there kinda taking the hint on how (Western Cultured A lot of game are becoming. not only that there boring as hell to.)

(PT) Somtimes i wanna puke at all the FPS's out there.

maybe this is why the xbox is starting to gain sales in japan now?

actually, we're still very far from market saturation in Japan. It may be a relatively small country but the population density is high. Think of it this way:
- 120 million Japanese residents
- 2.5 PS3s sold
That's far from saturation.

I think the problem is the lack of Japanese oriented games on the newer console, except perhaps for the Wii. Perhaps the PS3 will pick up steam again come 2010, when everyone in Japan will be forced to adopt a HDTV.

Originally posted by kyo28:

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actually, we're still very far from market saturation in Japan. It may be a relatively small country but the population density is high. Think of it this way:
- 120 million Japanese residents
- 2.5 PS3s sold
That's far from saturation.

I think the problem is the lack of Japanese oriented games on the newer console, except perhaps for the Wii. Perhaps the PS3 will pick up steam again come 2010, when everyone in Japan will be forced to adopt a HDTV.

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Quite possibly poor games, and maybe the Japanese are reacting to the global crisis by holding on to their cash and seeing what pans out.

As things stand I wouldn't even think of spending £300+ on anything that wasn't absolutely necessary right now...

People with money seem to be putting it into gold. I overheard a local jeweller talking about the rising gold price. He is surprised it is rising while right now today the oil price is falling... He was saying they usually track pretty closely.. When somebody who has been in the precious metals trade for 40 odd years thinks the market is behaving in strange ways then it's time to be cautious with what you have in hand.

Even so it's a little odd.. With the supposed boom in 360 sales you would think people want games to go with them... or are they buying used?

MAYBE IT"S THE ECONOMY.