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New report suggests that there are 3 million fewer PC gamers in Japan than 10 years ago, despite the market having at least tripled in size
Does that add up?
Data firm Newzoo has likewise shown enormous growth for the PC market in Japan in recent years, while last October, Kantan reported that Japan's Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association (CESA) shared data showing that Japan's PC gaming sector tripled in size from 2020 to 2024—that's going by software sales alone, while the Famitsu Gaming Hakusho accounts for software and hardware. But that doesn't seem like the full story: As PC Gamer senior editor Wes Fenlon pointed out, if you had a gaming PC in 2019, you're probably still using it in 2025, and the people's champion GTX 970 and 1060 graphics cards released in 2015 and '16 respectively can still run a host of games today. Whatever the case may be, there's reason to doubt that three million hardcore Japanese PC gamers beat their desktops into plowshares and left the hobby behind in the past ten years.
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