FACT: Games with sexual content on average have higher replay value

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could you provide the honorable sales numbers, then? Otherwise it's safe to assume they're below 100k

Belittling aside, I found total numbers from an untrustworthy source.

1990年:389万本
2000年:512万本
2005年:410万本
2010年:256万本
2015年:78万本
2016年:56万本
2017年:32万本

gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/2000121-anime-and-manga-other-titles/76440932

万本 means million. If we are to assume that the data is correct, and we are to assume these 'millions' are copies, with an average price of an eroge game ranging from 10000¥ to 3000¥ (in 2017, let's take the midpoint of these maximums and minimums) then:

6500¥ * 32,000,000 * ratio from yen to usd = 1.872 trillion USD.

That's a huge industry.

Rance 10 was a great game, but don't act like most porn games don't have trash for mechanics and just rely on the sexy pictures.

>万本 means million
You're off by 2 digits. 万 means 10k and 本 in this context means units.

The western porn game industry never took off until recently, where it instantly flew off the patreon cliff. Now we have a payment model that encourages bullshit hype and unending dragged out development. Add in the way patreon disallows certain content and you get a whole heap of bullshit.

>FACT: Games with sexual content tend to statistically have better game design, mechanically, dynamically, and aesthetically.
Proofs?

>thread about porn games
>oppic shows the game where porn is one of more weak and forgettable parts
What did he mean by this?

18.72 million USD, then.

For such a niche market, isn't this figure still a bit high?