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

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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