Japan: console video game market size 2022

The sales of the console video game industry in Japan amounted to 377.4 billion Japanese yen in 2022, which was an increase of 5.5 billion yen compared to the previous year. The rebound in 2017 can be explained by the success of the Nintendo Switch, which was released in March of that year. The growth in 2020 was related to the high demand for home entertainment during the COVID pandemic as well as the release of new consoles by Sony and Microsoft.

Sales of the console video game industry in Japan from 2013 to 2022 (in billion Japanese yen)

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July 2023

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Region

Japan

Survey time period

2013 to 2022

Special properties

packaged software and hardware sales; excluding download software

Supplementary notes

The console market in this case consists of packaged software and hardware sales. The figures exclude download software, which has been treated as a separate category from 2013 onward. Until 2012, packaged software and download software were treated as a single category by the source.

100 Japanese yen equal 0.66 U.S. dollars or 0.63 euros as of November 2023.

Data prior to 2021 come from previous reporting.

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