1 2002 3 26 video game industry recent trend in japanese market and comparison with us junjiro shintaku university of tokyo 2 contents shrink concentration on a few major companies basic characteristics 4 5 five feature business size japan 999 89 851 476 695 828 hard soft vtr music cd movie 00 000 hardware competition for de facto standard xbox microsoft 2001 11 north america million by the end 22 ps2 sony 2000 global installed base is network service playstation bb platform pub dev s o ft ware distribution scope activities 6 generation transition console machine 0 200 300 400 500 600 983 984 985 986 987 988 989 990 9911 992
