If you follow the news about game sales in Japan It will be found that if we don’t count portable game consoles like the Nintendo Switch, sales of other game consoles such as the PS5 are not very good. And recently, the results of the game market survey in 2023 were released by SHIBUYA109 Entertainment. Revealing the game consoles that Japanese Gen Z fans like to play.
And the results came out surprising because from the survey The gaming machines that Japanese players between the ages of 15 and 24 like to play the most, with the No. 1 ranking as it is expected that over 94% of children in this generation will play games on smartphones the most.
Nintendo Switch came in second place with 38.5%, followed by PC with 33.2% and fourth place was playing games on Tablets got 26.5%. Surprisingly, it included DS data, as well as Grandpa Nin’s two-screen game consoles, NDS, 3DS, and 2DS, which got 12.2%, making it fifth, ahead of newer consoles. than PS4, PS5 and Xbox Series
Additionally, the survey found that 80% of Gen Z people in Japan, 44.9%, play video games every day and spend an average of 100 minutes per day playing games, with younger players thinking it is important to have access to new consoles like the PS5 and Series More difficult than the previous era Therefore, older game consoles received more votes.
Game machines that Gen Z children like to play the most
- Smartphone 94.7%
- Nintendo Switch 38.5%
- PC 33.2%
- Tablets (26.5%)
- DS (12.2%)
