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

arcane_chaos on 06 February 2012

I think the big three all have some sort of establishment in China, just not fully legit(poor choice of words) if one can get a serious foothold in China then as yo_john said, will be the winner next gen and beyond!!!



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thranx on 07 February 2012
yo_john117 said:
Whoever can manage to get their console allowed in China will seriously be a winner next gen.


I believe the wii is already there and so is a ms console. But per chinas governement they have to partner with a local chinese company and they have slightly different names. Not sure how it works out. I could be wrong. I cant find any info now, but i know i have read that.



Barozi on 07 February 2012
kowenicki said:
spurgeonryan said:
I think that if you get any product into China you will be one lucky business man! I think the PS2 would have been the best choice. Who said Microsoft? China has that different of tastes than Japan?


There isnt much love lost between the Chinese and the Japanese.  Dont think they hate them any more, aside from perhaps the older generation, but they still are far from pals.

Yeah and isn't the 360 leading in Hong Kong and South Korea ?



D-Joe on 07 February 2012

750k Wii and 625k 360 in china at end of 2008
and sure PS3 sales in china gonna up since 2010 september because jailbreak

don't know how is 3 consoles in china right now



http://zh-tw.justin.tv/johndoe1899

Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 on 07 February 2012
D-Joe said:
750k Wii and 625k 360 in china at end of 2008
and sure PS3 sales in china gonna up since 2010 september because jailbreak

don't know how is 3 consoles in china right now


The chinese loooove to pirate.



Yay!!!

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JayLam on 07 February 2012
D-Joe said:
750k Wii and 625k 360 in china at end of 2008
and sure PS3 sales in china gonna up since 2010 september because jailbreak

don't know how is 3 consoles in china right now

where is the figure from？



D-Joe on 07 February 2012
JayLam said:
D-Joe said:
750k Wii and 625k 360 in china at end of 2008
and sure PS3 sales in china gonna up since 2010 september because jailbreak

don't know how is 3 consoles in china right now

where is the figure from？


http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/threads/252203-China-s-grey-market-console-base-quot-2-3-million-units-quot

yeah not 100% accurate but still likely(the numbers)

PS3 sales is just my guess



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JayLam on 07 February 2012

sarcasm...Chinese didnt know the sales in China，but foreigner made it...



Slimebeast on 07 February 2012

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.



kitler53 on 07 February 2012

now if china only allow for fair competition...