Previously, the title was held by Pokémon Red/Green/Blue, which has sold 10.23 million copies in Japan since 1996. The Game Data Library project writes about this.

The data was published by analyst Serkan Toto, who referred to the Kadokawa ASCII Research Laboratories report. As he writes, in 2021, the Japanese PC games market earned ¥131.3 billion, or about $896 million. This is twice as much as in 2018.

Game analyst Serkan Toto (Serkan Toto) told how much gaming specialists are paid on average in Japan. Game producers turned out to be the most earning.

According to Famitsu, in August, Japanese gamers bought 83 thousand cartridges with Nintendo Switch Sports.

Apex Legends Mobile was released on May 17. Within 12 days of its release, it was the first game by the number of downloads in the Japanese App Store and Google Play. In the top 10, Apex Legends Mobile lasted 54 days.

This is the best start among Nintendo Switch games in the Japanese market.

Two years ago, the authorities of the Japanese prefecture of Kagawa banned minors from playing video games for more than an hour on weekdays (and more than an hour and a half on weekends). A local teenager tried to challenge the ban in court, but to no avail.

On August 4, Square Enix released a smartphone role—playing action based on the manga “Steel Alchemist” – Fullmetal Alchemist Mobile. Japanese gamers (and only they can play for now) warmly welcomed the title. According to the GameLook portal, the game took second place in downloads in the local App Store and is still on it.

The figure was shared by game analyst Serkan Toto, who referred to the Mobile Content Forum study.

Ken Akamatsu is a Japanese manga artist who recently won a seat in the House of Councillors of Japan. He held a stream on YouTube, during which he promised to try to legally preserve the gaming legacy for posterity.

In Japan, there is a special gaming club designed exclusively for pensioners. The aim of the initiative is to unite older people through video games and help them avoid loneliness, especially during a pandemic.Photo: South China Morning Post YouTube Channel

The Japanese gaming market is the third largest in the world. In a recent report, the analytical company Newzoo told how many gamers there are in the country now, which games they prefer and how much they will spend on them in 2021.

Two weeks ago, for the first time in 33 years, all 30 places in the Japanese bestseller chart were occupied by games for one console. It became the Nintendo Switch. The Gaming Bolt portal has found out why this console has become more attractive to local developers and why they are no longer eager to cooperate with Sony.

The analytical company GameRefinery summed up the results of the second quarter and told about the main mobile genres and publishers in the USA, Japan and China. For example, American gamers like to play puzzles and give a lot of money to Roblox — it accounts for over 5% of the country’s gaming revenue.

PlayStation suffered heavy losses in the Japanese market. For the whole of 2020, less than a million Sony consoles were sold in the country. The last time this happened was in 1994 — during the launch of the PS1.

The analytical company GameRefinery has published a report on the main news and changes that have occurred in major mobile projects in October. The data relate to the markets of the USA, China and Japan.US Market

A drama is unfolding in the Japanese market. Sony is unhappy with PS4 sales in Japan and is focusing on the American market. At the same time, Microsoft is interested in local development studios and plans to make Xbox the second console in the market of the “land of the rising sun”.

Apple has problems in Japan. Dozens of local developers have criticized the working conditions with the App Store — and it’s not about the 30% commission. Now the company from Cupertino will also be checked by the Japanese Antimonopoly Commission.The Bloomberg edition summarized the main dissatisfactions of the App Store from local developers.

Newzoo analyzed the MAU of the main games on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 over the past month. The report not only shows the popularity of projects like Fortnite and GTA V in different countries, but also gives an idea of Sony’s dominance in specific regions (especially on the example of Japan).Analysts say that this year the total revenue from games in the world will be $ 159.3 billion.