The Japanese smartphone gaming market has been stagnating since 2014, according to research company Yano.
According to the company, the volume of the mobile gaming industry in Japan has stalled in the range of $ 8-$8.5 billion.
The size of the Japanese Smartphone games market
The indicator includes sales of gaming applications and browser games, advertising revenue is not taken into account.
It is worth noting that Japan remains the only country in the world with a significant number of gamers playing browser games on mobile devices.
Despite the stagnation, the Japanese smartphone games market is almost three times the size of the video games market.
According to Famitsu magazine, the turnover of games and hardware for them in Japan in 2016 amounted to $2.6 billion.
Source: Serkan Toto blog