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The 11th annual industrial investigation into the actual conditions in 2003, which is operated by all cooperation with JAMMA, AOU and NSA, was accomplished and the report has been released. This time it took 802 companies as an object of study, which includes not only two associations' membership companies but also the non-membership companies as well and, as the results, the report is filled with diverse statistical data based on the replies from more than 300 companies. Outline of the result from this survey According to the investigation of this year (April, 2003 to March, 2004), the total market scale by yen is 1,8851 million and fell below 2,000 million that had been maintained in last two years. Besides, the upshot of the investigation is that the market growth rate compared to the previous year dropped deeply to a decrease of 7.0%. It's mainly caused by a sharp decrease in sales of 15.6% in hard/software of home game machine category, which sales gross of this year was 1,695 million yen that was a large negative growth with 1,971 million yen from the previous year. On the other category, in business amusement industry, the sales including gross and operation service went up to 8,156 million yen that became 7.3 % increase from the previous year as same trend as the last year sales growth so that it can be said that the market growth recovered well out of the bottom. | |
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