The sales of the Japanese console video game industry amounted to 375.9 billion Japanese yen in 2020, up from 333 billion yen in the previous year. The console market consists of software and hardware sales. The high popularity of mobile gaming apps is thought to be a major reason for the observable long-term decline of the console market in Japan. The rebound in 2017 was mainly caused by the success of the Nintendo Switch, which was released in March of that year. The growth in 2020 was related to the increased demand for home entertainment amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as well as the release of a new generation of consoles in the form of the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X in November 2020. With the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition and the Xbox Series S, both Sony and Microsoft also released downgraded but more affordable versions of their consoles.
Sales of the console video game industry in Japan from 2011 to 2020
(in billion Japanese yen)
*The source started to differentiate between packaged software sales and download software sales in 2013. The figures shown from 2013 onward exclude download sales.
1 Japanese yen equals 0.0082 U.S. dollars or 0.0074 euros as of April 2022.
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Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association. (April 25, 2022). Sales of the console video game industry in Japan from 2011 to 2020 (in billion Japanese yen) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved October 06, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/689590/japan-console-game-market-sales/
Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association. "Sales of the console video game industry in Japan from 2011 to 2020 (in billion Japanese yen)." Chart. April 25, 2022. Statista. Accessed October 06, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/689590/japan-console-game-market-sales/
Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association. (2022). Sales of the console video game industry in Japan from 2011 to 2020 (in billion Japanese yen). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: October 06, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/689590/japan-console-game-market-sales/
Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association. "Sales of The Console Video Game Industry in Japan from 2011 to 2020 (in Billion Japanese Yen)." Statista, Statista Inc., 25 Apr 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/689590/japan-console-game-market-sales/
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