Sentences with phrase «japanese home console market»

The publisher also provides a detailed explanation of its results, mentioning that the Japanese home console market grew for the second fiscal year in a row, both in terms of hardware and software.

Not exact matches

This would make it the highest selling Dragon Ball home console game of all time in the Japanese market.

In order to do so, Capcom was willing to switch the focus of the brand back to home consoles, and away from Nintendo platforms, a risky move considering the dissaffect of the Japanese public to TV - tied consoles and the current dominance of Nintendo in the local market.

It might feel like console gaming started with the NES and the Master System, but that would be omitting a major part of gaming history and the reason that Japanese developers gained so much dominance of the home console market.

The result of oversaturation and lack of quality control of games (leading to the 1983 videogame crash) left the door open for Nintendo and Japanese companies in general to capitalize on the home console market.

The Japanese gaming market may be smaller than those in North America or Europe, but it still matters, as a lot of Japanese publishers continue to base decisions on how consoles sell in their home country.

This is on top of the fact that Americans continue to buy Nintendo home consoles more than their Japanese counterparts, while Japan has been buying more handhelds than any other region (a first for Nintendo since the Game Boy through the DS all had Japan trailing - the handheld market is shrinking worldwide, but in Japan it's not as bad as Western markets since the 3DS has already outsold the GBA there while in America it's still less than 50 % of GBA sales after almost 6 years).

The Japanese market lost its taste for home consoles, focusing instead on the convenience that handheld consoles brought to the table.

The Japanese gaming market may be smaller than those in North America or Europe, but it still matters, as a lot of Japanese publishers continue to base most of their decisions on how consoles sell in their home country.

The man who led Nintendo to kick start the home console market died Thursday of pneumonia at a Japanese hospital.