{"id":9981,"date":"2018-01-10T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/312851"},"modified":"2018-01-10T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T23:32:00","slug":"japanese-console-game-market-experiences-growth-for-the-first-time-in-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/10\/japanese-console-game-market-experiences-growth-for-the-first-time-in-11-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese console game market experiences growth for the first time in 11 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese video game console market has grown for the first time in 11 years, experiencing a spike in sales during 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in sales is attributed to the Nintendo Switch&#8217;s speedy hardware sales, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/311497\/Nintendo_Switch_worldwide_sales_top_10M_units.php\">which have\u00a0surpassed 10 million units sold worldwide<\/a>\u00a0since its March 2017 debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/for-the-first-time-in-11-years-the-japanese-console-ga-1821941997\">As Kotaku reports<\/a>, in 2016 Japanese hardware sales\u00a0were 117.05 billion yen ($1.05 billion),\u00a0while in 2017\u00a0they flourished\u00a0to 202.37 billion yen ($1.81 billion). Software sales also increased since 2016, going from\u00a0182.4 billion yen ($1.63 billion) to 189.3 billion yen ($1.69 billion) the following year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Japanese gaming markets last saw growth in 2006 when the Nintendo DS Lite, Nintendo Wii, and PS3 were launched, Kotaku\u00a0also notes.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese video game console market has grown for the first time in 11 years, experiencing a spike in sales during 2017. The increase in sales is attributed to the Nintendo Switch&#8217;s speedy hardware sales, which have\u00a0surpassed 10 million units sold worldwide\u00a0since its March 2017 debut.\u00a0 As Kotaku reports, in 2016 Japanese hardware sales\u00a0were 117.05 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}