China Gaming Market Worth $7.1 Billion in 2011, Still Growing Fast

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ArcticGabe on 07 February 2012

Slimebeast said:

I don't believe in those numbers. I believe they're heavily overestimated.

$7 billion online revenue for China is far too much when World of Warcraft's total worldwide revenue is around $1 billion of which only $300-400 million comes from Chinese players. Knowing that WoW is very popular and has a big marketshare in China the $7 billion revenue number for the online Chinese gaming market doesn't make sense.

There's just no way that WoW only has 5-6% of the total Chinese MMO market revenue when it has over 50% in the West.

Also the source is very questionable.

It used to be the biggest, China is changing fast :)

Its not an estimate, its a report.

The original source is in Chinese.

the estimated figure for 2012 is 55.7 Billion yuan, about 9 billion US dollars.

the size of Chinese video game market is represented by the size of Chinese video game companies.

http://www.softwaretop100.org/top-25-gaming-companies-2010

many of the top25 are Chinese companies in 2010 already.

Shanda Interactive, Perfect World, Changyou, NetEase.com and Giant Interactive

They didn't include the king of Chinese video game market = tencent in that list for some reasons.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/38485/Chinas_Tencent_Reports_Another_Billion_Dollar_Quarter.php

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Lostplanet22 on 08 February 2012

Slimebeast said:

I don't believe in those numbers. I believe they're heavily overestimated.

$7 billion online revenue for China is far too much when World of Warcraft's total worldwide revenue is around $1 billion of which only $300-400 million comes from Chinese players. Knowing that WoW is very popular and has a big marketshare in China the $7 billion revenue number for the online Chinese gaming market doesn't make sense.

There's just no way that WoW only has 5-6% of the total Chinese MMO market revenue when it has over 50% in the West.

Also the source is very questionable.

-120 million online game users (almost the population of japan).
- WoW is probably not in the top ten of most popular games (in the number of gamers playing it) Games like fantasy westward journey had at their peak more than 40 million users.