Industry NewsJapan: 2008 Hardware Sales Down 22%MediaCreate - November 18, 2008
Submitted by OuterHaven (570)
at 8:20PM PST on November 18, 2008
Japan has declined as a market with total hardware console and hand held sales down significantly from last year.
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The biggest cause is that for most of last year DS was still usually selling more than 100K a week, or even 150K a week. In the later months of last year (before the holiday bump) it started to come down to _merely_ great numbers and has stayed that way, so it really drags down the whole.