fiscal year 2020; the Japanese fiscal year starts on April 1 of the stated year and ends on March 31 of the following year
Supplementary notes
*Forecast.
The video game software market excludes social games, which are treated as a separate category by the source. The category social games includes native apps that are provided by smartphone app stores.
100 Japanese yen equal 0.76 U.S. dollars or 0.71 euros as of January 2023.
The video game software market in Japan was valued at close to *** billion Japanese yen in fiscal year 2020. Its value was expected to decrease to about *** billion yen by fiscal year 2027. The source differentiated between video game software and social games, which in this case included mobile gaming apps. The three categories video game software, social games, and video game hardware together constituted the total gaming market in Japan, which was expected to grow further in the coming years due to the growth of the social game category.
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