{"id":41974,"date":"2024-12-24T13:05:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T04:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=41974"},"modified":"2024-12-24T13:05:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T04:05:51","slug":"japan-gamer-statistics-japan-sees-big-annual-increase-in-multiplatform-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japan-gamer-statistics-japan-sees-big-annual-increase-in-multiplatform-gamers\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan sees big annual increase in multiplatform gamers\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the recent annual report by Japan\u2019s Computer Entertainment Supplier&#8217;s Association (CESA), gamers in Japan are increasingly playing games across multiple platforms, including consoles, mobile and PC.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published on December 20, the <a href=\"https:\/\/f-ism.net\/report\/cesa2024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CESA Game Industry Report 2024<\/a> found that the number of gamers in Japan totaled around 55.5 million users in 2023. This was the highest number of players in the last 5 years. What\u2019s more, people playing on more than one platform jumped from 5.9 million in the previous year to 7.3 million in 2023, an increase of around 18%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-palette-color-10-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-39a60b1f94bc2dc4a343c3a0b164f14f\" id=\"japan-gamer-statistics\" style=\"font-size:1px\">Japan gamer statistics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The survey looked at a sample of 76.2 million people aged 5 to 59. Of these, 55.5 million played games. Mobile was the most popular platform with 43.5 million users, followed by consoles (29.7 million) and PC (14.4 million). There was a significant number of users who play games on both mobile and console (13 million). Over 7 million people reported gaming across mobile, PC and consoles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241224-41974-001.jpg\" alt=\"Venn Diagram of gamers in Japan by platform in 2023\" class=\"wp-image-41980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241224-41974-001.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241224-41974-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241224-41974-001-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Venn diagram showing the number of gamers by platform (in units of 10,000). Mobile game users are indicated in green, console gamers in blue and PC gamers in yellow (Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/article\/202412\/28189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Famitsu<\/a>).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This study only looked at a particular sample, so the real number of gamers in Japan is likely far larger. What is clear is that the number of people gaming across multiple platforms, including consoles, PC and smartphone, is increasing. In recent years, mobile gaming has continued to expand due to the widespread use of smartphones and increased availability of game apps.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"284\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241224-41974-002.png\" alt=\"Steam users by language November 2024 report\" class=\"wp-image-41984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241224-41974-002.png 686w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241224-41974-002-380x157.png 380w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Steam users by language (Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/hwsurvey\/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam Hardware &amp; Software Survey: November 2024<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of PC gamers has grown, with the PC game market <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japan-game-market-grew-steadily-in-2023-with-the-pc-game-market-expanding-by-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expanding by 25% in 2023<\/a>. This is also evident from the rising popularity of Steam in Japan. In 2023, Japanese language users of Steam <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230705-19941\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surpassed German and French language users<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/hwsurvey\/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Recent data<\/a> from November 2024 shows that Japanese is still the 6<sup>th<\/sup> most used language on Steam at 2.91% of users. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent statistics on gamers in Japan show that the number of people playing on multiple platforms (PC, console, mobile) has jumped by 18%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":41985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-41974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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