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The number of Chinese gamers surpasses the number of American citizens

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/the-number-of-chinese-gamers-surpasses-the-number-of-american-citizens.183132/

rhyansy
rhyansy Original post #1
Apr 25, 2014 at 10:37 AM
Can you just imagine that there are 517M Chinese gamers?

"Of that 517 million person Chinese gaming audience:

147M are core gamers
28% play more than 1 hour/day
9.7% have spent money
Core genres = 70% of revenue"

This is insane how gaming industry potential is!

News article: *www.gamespot.com/articles/the-numb...the-number-of-american-citizens/1100-6419166/
flyingcow
Apr 25, 2014 at 1:36 PM
even though the consoles were banned for some time...
9.7 spent money? pirated or spent in F2p?
also considering they have 1 bil+ people, it makes sense
most of them must be playing DOTA or something :D gotta get dem skills like dondi
icebags
icebags #3
Apr 25, 2014 at 10:20 PM
when it comes to numbers, chinese surpass everybody, closely followed by indians sometimes. there's no competition there.