/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>43997566
I took this screenshot a few months back. It's the official downloads page for 私家版, the Japanese version of eraMegaten.
The screenshot is pretty typical of what I've seen there. Major updates usually get a little over 1,000 downloads. Minor updates get anywhere from 50 to like 200.
Even accounting for people who play but seldom update, there still might be less than ten thousand people who play the Japanese version of eraMegaten. Not even all of those people are Japanese; I'm certainly not.
Although of course eraMegaten is just one game.

The games definitely have at least some cultural impact because you occasionally see references to them in Japanese media. I first found out about era games from a really hot FGO doujin by Clochette called 深海電脳楽土E.RA.BB.