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Read More »Japanese games market down 10% in 2014, hits lowest point for 24 years
UPDATE: It has emerged that the Japanese console games market in 2014 had its worst performance for 24 years. As translated by NeoGaf, 2014’s 368.55bn total was the sector’s lowest total for nearly a quarter of a century. As recently as 2007 the region’s console games market was worth 688bn. …
Read More »Yokai Watch 2 ends 2014 on top in Japan
Level 5’s insanely popular Yokai Watch series continues to rule the Japanese charts, according to market data provided by Famitsu. A new version of Yokai Watch 2, Shinuchi, topped the charts selling 265,226 units. This is the game’s third week in the charts, and is a considerable reduction on the …
Read More »PS4 Dragon Quest Metal Slime Edition sees Sony hardware sales rocket in Japan
A limited edition version of Sony’s PS4 saw the console increase sales by a factor of five week-on-week in Japan last week, Famitsu data reveals. Sales of the machine climbed from 13,040 to 64,017 units in the week ending December 14th following the launch of the Dragon Quest Metal Slime …
Read More »Super Smash Bros doubles weekly Wii U sales in Japan; console outsells New Nintendo 3DS
The Wii U release of Super Smash Bros has sent Nintendo’s console back up the Japanese hardware charts, according to the latest data from Famitsu. Nintendo’s all-star fighting title, which was released for 3DS in Japan back in September, topped the software rankings in its debut week, knocking fellow Nintendo …
Read More »Phantasy Star can’t topple Pokemon from top of Japanese charts
107,638 unit sales weren’t enough to see Sega’s new Vita RPG Phantasy Star Nova knock Nintendo’s new Pokemon games from the top of the weekly Japanese charts. Famitsu sales data for the week ending November 30th show that the Top 10 welcomed a number of new titles including Kadokawa’s Vita …
Read More »Nintendo withdrawing 3DS XL from sale in Japan
New 3DS XL to take its place
Read More »Nintendo is withdrawing the 3DS XL from the Japanese market
The 3DS XL is being dropped in Japan before its successor has even been released in the West. Siliconera reports that Nintendo’s Japanese 3DS XL page lists all seven colour variants of the model as ending production soon”, presumably with an eye to the New 3DS XL becoming the go-to …
Read More »Japanese games retail "could vanish in the next five years"
Specialist game retailers may be dead in Japan by the end of the decade, it has been warned. Kotaku reports that a Japanese games retail employee named Osho who works in sales for games chain Pao believes that the combined threat of online retail (specifically Amazon), the rise of digital …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare beats PES 2015 to Japanese No.1
Western FPS king Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has beaten a firm Japanese favourite to the top of the Japanese weekly charts. Famitsu data reveals that the shooter, published by Square Enix in the region, sold 100,996 copies on PS3 to claim No.1, beating the 76,407 units PES 2015 sold …
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