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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Video game market sees turnaround in 2022

(Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

Domestic sales of home video games bucked a two-year slide last year, despite shortages of semiconductors that have held down the manufacturing of game consoles.

According to game magazine Famitsu, the market size for video games in 2022 increased for the first time in two years, rising 3.7% from the previous year to about 374.8 billion yen.

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