Japanese Game Industry in a Decline
January 6th, 2009 Posted in Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Sales, Xbox 360
The Famitsu Marketing Data Service revealed some troubling news for the Japanese gaming industry. For the year 2008 in Japan, sales have dropped 23.5% since the year before. Furthermore, the year 2007 went down 15% from the year before. Software sales have gone down by 7.9%.
It is to be noted that Japan is currently in a recession, which can be blamed on the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Year by year, things are not going good for the Japanese market.
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