Comments on: Japan’s PC gaming population has decreased by 3 million in the past decade, studies suggest https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japans-pc-gaming-population-has-decreased-by-3-million-in-the-past-decade-studies-show/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:33:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Maki https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japans-pc-gaming-population-has-decreased-by-3-million-in-the-past-decade-studies-show/#comment-6420 Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:33:19 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=51012#comment-6420 No kidding, the PC community has always been bad. Now the PC component market is heavily inflated here in Japan. About 400,000 JPY for the cheapest 5090, 85,000 JPY for a 9800X3D, Not even to mention a compatible board and memory.

If you think about the minimum wage of new graduates starting in big companies (ie ours, I’m in management) , it’s less than 4,000,000 JPY a year including twice a year bonus. Mid careers ain’t much better like 7,000,000 JPY. For the last 4 years importing felt like the middleman always added +30% on top of the market price. I was lucky to have a watercooled 4090 MSI for 330,000 JPY (while being scammed by a Chinese seller on Amazon but luckily got compensated) while it was 400,000 JPY at the time.

I wish I could afford a watercooled 5090, but I can’t. Thanks inflation + weak currency.

]]> By: Nik https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japans-pc-gaming-population-has-decreased-by-3-million-in-the-past-decade-studies-show/#comment-6415 Thu, 14 Aug 2025 01:07:01 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=51012#comment-6415 It’s not that surprising. PC gaming worldwide is dominated by gachas and F2P games that are also available on mobile, and a large number of people are going to choose to play on their omnipresent mobile device instead of getting a PC.

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