A third of China’s population plays mobile games
China has as many gamers as the total population of the US and Japan combined
A third of China’s enormous population plays mobile games. That’s 459 million people in all -- approximately as many as the populations of the United States and Japan combined.
That’s according to a new report from China’s Game Publishing Committee and Gamma Data, which laid out the state of play for gaming in China in the first half of 2018.
We visualized the report’s findings, breaking down China’s enormous number of gamers in five simple graphics.
In the first half of 2018, China’s gaming industry earned US$15.4 billion in revenue (RMB$105 billion).
60% came from mobile games, 30% from “client” games (think PC and console) and only 6.9% from web games. The number of mobile gamers is growing rapidly, while client gamers are flat and web gamers are quickly declining.
