{"id":6966,"date":"2010-01-06T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T19:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6966"},"modified":"2015-05-08T22:53:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T05:53:47","slug":"ps3-japan-sales-uplifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/ps3-japan-sales-uplifted\/","title":{"rendered":"PS3 Japan Sales Uplifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12337 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ps3-Slim-Black-S-e1431150733888.jpg\" alt=\"ps3-Slim Black-S\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/>JAN. 6, 2010 \u2022 Enterbrain, Inc. reported that sales of the PlayStation 3 in Japan have increased nearly 70% since the Slim model was released in September with a drop in list price of \u00a510,194 ($110). There was little good news for other segments of Japan&#8217;s video game industry, however. Console hardware sales decreased 13.6% to \u00a5221 billion ($2.38 billion) for the year, while Nintendo&#8217;s Wii saw a decrease in sales of 30%. Game software sales fell by 1.8% to \u00a5332 billion ($3.58 billion).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 128);\"><em>Impact: While it would seem that the market in Japan was in decline, the decrease was actually not as severe as DFC had forecasted.\u00a0 A decline in hardware revenue was naturally to be expected, but DFC was also forecasting a 12% decline in software revenue. Recession or not, the industry faces a time when the current game systems are aging and the market is flooded with low cost software.\u00a0 We expect another modest decline for 2010.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAN. 6, 2010 \u2022 Enterbrain, Inc. reported that sales of the PlayStation 3 in Japan have increased nearly 70% since the Slim model was released in September with a drop in list price of \u00a510,194 ($110). There was little good news for other segments of Japan&#8217;s video game industry, however. Console hardware sales decreased 13.6% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14123,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions\/14123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}