N4G: news feed: Japan's game market hits record high as consoles decline and mobile grows

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Japan's game market hits record high as consoles decline and mobile grows Jun 25th 2015, 15:18 New data from Japanese game mag Famitsu, which closely tracks the country's game market, reveals that the country's game biz has hit an all-time high: $9.6 billion dollars in 2014. Japan's thriving mobile game business is responsible for a huge chunk of that: $5.8 billion, an 18 percent year-on-year increase. But the data isn't all rosy: It shows the console game segment shrinking -- both in terms of hardware and software sales, which in 2014 reached their lowest point since 2005, the earliest year in the period tracked in the report.

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