Land of the setting sun

This story did the rounds the other week but didn't attract too much comment on the sites that I lurk on:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/japanese-videogames-market-in-decline

My first thought is that it would be very interesting to see what those figures would look like in a Wii-less alternate universe. My guess is that they would be downright apocalyptic.

But if my pesonal experience is anything to go by, I'm surprised the figures aren't worse in this universe.

Here's some random numbers generated by my game shelf.

Sega saturn collection: 85% Japanese developed games.
Playstation one collection: 70% Japanese developed games
Sega Dreamcast collection: 91% Japanese developed games.
Playstation 2 collection: 93% Japanese developed games.
Xbox 360 collection: 15% Japanese developed games.

I don't own a ps3, (as I'm not one of the seven richest Kings of Europe) but judging by the games that interest me, the figures would be in line with the 360 figures.

(I'm ignoring nintendo's home systems at the moment, because when you really get down to it, the only games really worth playing on those are made or published by nintendo...

...and that goes double for the Wii)

So what gives?

I'll come back to this later,
where I'll try and share the blame between Japanese developers, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and the japanese otaku.

But not me.
I'm blameless and innocent.