5/24/2023 0 Comments Japanese steam games![]() Twin motivations could be supply issues for PS5s and the pandemic pushing gamers to find entertainment wherever they could. Kantan Games analyst Dr Serkan Toto speculated on why Japan’s PC gaming market is booming. Of that 16 million, 4.5 million say they solely play on PC, which is more than double the number of exclusive PC gamers in Japan in 2015. There were 16 million PC gamers in Japan last year, about 30 percent of Japan’s total gamer population (estimated at 55.4 million in 2021). ![]() That market is heavily dominated by mobile gaming, followed by home consoles and then PC. PC accounted for almost 7 percent of Japan’s overall game market, which was valued at about ¥2 trillion ($13.7 billion) in 2021. Related: Assassin's Creed Is Heading To Japan Far Too Late The report said that the market for PC gaming in Japan had nearly doubled since 2018 and reached ¥131.3 billion in 2021 (roughly $900 million USD). Weekly Famitsu (via Games ) recently published a report from Japanese think tank Kadokawa Ascii Research Laboratories that analyzed Japan’s PC gaming market. ![]() Even as some Japanese game publishers worry about the country’s future gaming population, a new report says that at least one segment of the Japanese gaming market is booming.
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