Japanese gaming publication Famitsu has revealed that the Japanese handheld and console video game market is currently at the lowest it has been in 24 years. The reason is the advent of smartphone and tablet devices which have taken off in Japan by a staggering amount. Traditional consoles and handhelds have taken a significant hit because of this. It should be noted that consoles are performing well in the west as Sony announced yesterday that they’ve sold 18.5 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide. Here’s the best-selling software and hardware in Japan during last year.
Famitsu Top 10 2014
01. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch 2: Ganso / Honke (Level 5) {2014.07.10} (¥4.937) – 3,050,178
02. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire (Pokemon Co.) {2014.11.21} (¥4.937) – 2,464,850
03. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate # (Capcom) {2014.10.11} (¥6.264) – 2,381,177
04. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo) {2014.09.13} (¥5.616) – 2,066,022
05. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch 2: Shin Uchi (Level 5) {2014.12.13} (¥4.968) – 2,007,327
06. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch (Level 5) {2013.07.11} (¥4.800) – 994,346 / 1,280,799
07. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 # (Nintendo) {2014.05.29} (¥6.156) – 842,053
08. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Iru to Ruka no Fushigi na Fushigi na Kagi # (Square Enix) {2014.02.06} (¥5.490) – 748,139
09. [3DS] Kirby Triple Deluxe (Nintendo) {2014.01.11} (¥4.800) – 687,957
10. [WIU] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U # (Nintendo) {2014.12.06} (¥7.776) – 478,366
Hardware 2014:
3DS – 3,153,045 / 17,847,056
PSV – 1,147,936 / 3,423,075
PS4 – 925,570
Wii U – 604,856 / 2,123,283
PS3 – 450,034 / 10,018,534
One – 45,958
Thanks, Jacob
Welp that fucking explains things.
the one looks like a good console :p
This too shall pass. Like Britney Spears and other pop nonsense, smartphone gaming shall be intriguing for a little while longer. Then the Companies with mettle shall game on. Nintendo and …..? shall remain.
F=ma.
Except pop is still going strong. And rock is all but dead. See how things progress and change? You sound like the people that said DVDs were dumb and vhs will live forever, lol.
http://youtu.be/fDGb3JT34d0
It’s so easy to blame it all on smartphones and tablets when Nintendo themselves abandoned successful philosophies like the Wii and DS to make Wii U and 3DS
You’re still here. Haven’t changed much, neither :-P
That’s because the wiiu hasn’t changed much.
And yet the same people like you complain to that being the Wii U and for some reason the 3DS failure…
If they have lost their market share, they are failures
Taxes.
Wii U and mainly 3DS software dominated. 3DS dominated the hardware charts and what was that about Vita and Wii U being doomed??? This chart begs to differ…
The Applings as well as the Xbots are the infectious diseases that must be wiped out completely if we are to save this gaming universe from total destruction…
If you weren’t roleplaying you would sound like a psychopath… Naah I’m jk, you already sound like one ;)
Psychopaths are pathetic and primitive so I’m not one of those…
You’re pathetic
Silly ape, go back to your Xbot base instead…
Is sony fault.
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When the 3DS is the only console having sales over 100K, yeah it is a little worrying. Some consoles are doing OK, but could be better and some are doing plain bad.
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I blame phones taking a chunk out of the market. There were even game devs that said PSVita will fail. people only want one thing in their pocket and that’s a phone. Nintendo is smart to aim for every age including children.
Eh, there is something really uninteresting about the market of games on a phone for anything but convenience.
curious how the PS4 still placed in front of the wii u
wasn’t it mostly behind it in the weekly stats? this week is no different after all
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