Streaming games with Live Streamers, Content Creators and VTubers also increased in Japan within that time frame too I imagine both helped each other grow.
Packin-heat
Yeah that’s what you call COVID lockdowns. Everyone needed a PC or laptop, plus an increase in popularity of Vtubers.
Due_Teaching_6974
Yo vanillaware you reading this?
Riparian72
If only the devs realise that investing in PC development is a good thing because I’m tired of bad pc ports
rnilf
> While consoles like the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch still hold significant portions of the gaming market, PCs have grown to represent 13% of Japan’s overall gaming revenue in 2023, up from a mere 5% in 2019.
Pretty crazy growth.
Nintendo has always been against open-source emulators of their hardware, but seeing this in their home market might be part of the reason why they’ve stepped up their efforts to take them down…
catwiesel
so someone bought a gaming pc for his kids and one for himself.
there, trippled 🙂
backtotheroots381
Great news this might eventually bring the downfall of nintendo or at least force them to release their games day 1 on pc also.
Atreyisx
When 15 year old Nintendo games still sell at launch MSRP it’s not hard to see why the shift to pc combined with other factors mentioned.
I_R0M_I
PC gaming is dead! The internet told me so years ago.
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That’s amazing news!
Interesting!
Streaming games with Live Streamers, Content Creators and VTubers also increased in Japan within that time frame too I imagine both helped each other grow.
Yeah that’s what you call COVID lockdowns. Everyone needed a PC or laptop, plus an increase in popularity of Vtubers.
Yo vanillaware you reading this?
If only the devs realise that investing in PC development is a good thing because I’m tired of bad pc ports
> While consoles like the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch still hold significant portions of the gaming market, PCs have grown to represent 13% of Japan’s overall gaming revenue in 2023, up from a mere 5% in 2019.
Pretty crazy growth.
Nintendo has always been against open-source emulators of their hardware, but seeing this in their home market might be part of the reason why they’ve stepped up their efforts to take them down…
so someone bought a gaming pc for his kids and one for himself.
there, trippled 🙂
Great news this might eventually bring the downfall of nintendo or at least force them to release their games day 1 on pc also.
When 15 year old Nintendo games still sell at launch MSRP it’s not hard to see why the shift to pc combined with other factors mentioned.
PC gaming is dead! The internet told me so years ago.